Full Freeview on the Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) transmitter which serves 920,000 homes. The bright green areas shown where the signal from this transmitter is strong, dark green areas are poorer signals. Those parts shown in yellow may have interference on the same frequency from other masts.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) mast?
Sandy Heath transmitter - Sandy Heath transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 04/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Sandy Heath transmitter broadcast?
If you have any kind of Freeview fault, follow this Freeview reset procedure first.Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Sandy Heath transmitter?
BBC Look East (West) 1.0m homes 3.7%
from Cambridge CB4 0WZ, 29km east-northeast (65°)
to BBC Cambridge region - 4 masts.
70% of BBC East (East) and BBC East (West) is shared output
ITV Anglia News 1.0m homes 3.7%
from Norwich NR1 3JG, 119km east-northeast (60°)
to ITV Anglia (West) region - 5 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Anglia (East)
How will the Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1965-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 12 Feb 2020 | ||||
| VHF | A K T | K T | K T | W T | W T | ||||
| C6 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C21 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C24 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C27 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C31 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C32 | com7 | ||||||||
| C33 | SDN | ||||||||
| C34 | com8 | ||||||||
| C35 | _local | ||||||||
| C36 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C39 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C43 | _local | ||||||||
| C48 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C51tv_off | SDN | ||||||||
| C52tv_off | ArqA | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off |
tv_off Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) after November 2020 / June 2022 - more
Table shows multiplexes names see this article;
green background for transmission frequencies
Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W T
waves denotes analogue; digital switchover was 30 Mar 11 and 13 Apr 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 1000kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7.4dB) 180kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-7.7dB) 170kW | |
| com7 | (-13dB) 49.6kW | |
| com8 | (-13.1dB) 49.1kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 20kW | |
| Analogue 5 | (-20dB) 10kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sandy Heath transmitter area
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Monday, 19 August 2019
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m harriman 10:09 AM
all went of on Friday night first told it was for works on transmitter now not what is going on
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Chris.SE11:43 PM
m harriman :
There is planned engineering at Sandy Heath this week with "Possible weak signal". If you are some distance from the transmitter or have a marginal aerial installation, that may mean you lose signal. Do not attempt to retune whilst you have no signal.
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Tuesday, 20 August 2019
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Karen Illsley7:46 AM
Based in Hitchin and served by Sandy Heath; we have had intermittent reception for approx 2 weeks and the last 2 days it has got severely worse. Have found out works are going on this week at Sandy heath but how long will this last? Both freeview and terrestrial channels affected.
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StevensOnln19:36 AM
Karen Illsley: They never say how long the engineering work will last, as it can be affected factors such as weather conditions which are beyond the engineers control. Freeview channels are all terrestrial (they are all broadcast from a land-based transmitter tower).
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Thursday, 22 August 2019
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Jim Pick 5:28 AM
Every morning for 2 weeks we have had picture break up in the morning only. Is the ttransmitter being worked overnight?
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StevensOnln19:18 AM
Jim Pick : There has been engineering work recently at Sandy Heath. They do not announce the times that it is being carried out or when it will be finished.
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Friday, 13 September 2019
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margaret swannack1:58 PM
why inwellingborough have we lost channels 61 & 62
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Saturday, 14 September 2019
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Mike Rowe7:04 AM
Lost a number of channels mainly bbc, itv sd and hd this morning. Been intermittant for some time. Any issues known?
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Chris.SE7:20 AM
Mike Rowe:
There is a bit of tropospheric propagation around at present meaning you may be getting interference from other transmitters as signals travel further. If your signals haven't returned, if you provide your postcode we can look at the predicted reception at your location.
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Chris.SE7:30 AM
Mike Rowe:
If you haven't moved since last year, you should have no reception problems from Sandy Heath under normal conditions. If problems persist, check all your coax connections (unplug them, check they are clean etc., plug them in again) and check your aerial is intact and hasn't moved in any wind.
margaret swannack:
see Help | Freeview and also Channel listings | Freeview If you do not live in the Manchester area and don't get the Manchester local multiplex then you won't get those channels.
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