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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) transmitter._______
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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Wednesday, 31 October 2018
Monday, 5 November 2018
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Mike Rowe1:34 PM
Wisbech
PE14 9PQ aerial is on the roof
Issues recently with losing Freeview channels/breaking up. Local Facebook group has few people with the same issues. Sandy Heath is the transmitter. Been bad for a few weeks now. I know it is weather related but the signal is so poor it drops out quite a lot
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Mike's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 6 November 2018
MikeP
10:44 AM
10:44 AM
Mike Rowe:
Please make sure you are tuned to the Sandy Heath transmitter as others are potentially receivable at your location, though there would be problems such as you are experiencing. You can find the correct channels by looking at Coverage Checker - Detailed View and scro;;ing down to the listing for Sandy Heath. Also ensure that you are using a wideband aerial and not a 'grouped' type as used to be used before changes to the transmission channels earlier this year.
I would not rely on Facebook postings as they could well be unreliable and from people with little or no technical knowledge.
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Thursday, 8 November 2018
Transmitter engineering
2:05 PM
2:05 PM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 11:36 today to 11:38 today. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
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5:05 PM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 12:29 today to 12:31 today. [BBC]
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Friday, 9 November 2018
Transmitter engineering
5:04 AM
5:04 AM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 12:29 yesterday to 12:31 yesterday. [BBC]
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Saturday, 10 November 2018
Transmitter engineering
5:04 AM
5:04 AM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 12:29 on 08 Nov to 12:31 on 08 Nov. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
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5:04 PM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 11:36 on 08 Nov to 11:38 on 08 Nov. [BBC]
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Monday, 26 November 2018
We are in CB10 2TL getting a signal from Sandy Heath. Recently we are seeing issues with as lot of channels intermittently. The aerial was replaced a few years ago and due to our position the cable runs into an Antiference amplifier then on to 3 feeds. Each of the feeds is showing the same losses. Signal strength can be as low as 34% on BBC1 SD with a high number of bitrate errors. HD channels also sometimes weak, but not always. I've remade the cable terminations, but no better. Is this likely to be an aerial or amplifier problem? Thank you!
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Neil's: mapN's Freeview map terrainN's terrain plot wavesN's frequency data N's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Coach7:45 PM
Hi Neil.
Like you I've had issues however ok for the last few days. Issues lasted weeks so can't be high pressure.
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