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 27/11/2023 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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Sunday, 28 June 2020
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Derek Bampkin9:56 AM
since july 2019 i have been unable to receive programs on 289 m, any suggestion how to solve this?
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StevensOnln110:39 AM
Derek Bampkin: There is no channel 289 on Freeview. Which channel or radio station have you lost?
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Friday, 2 October 2020
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Paul5:13 PM
Why do I get Meridian TV news in HD (103) when I live near Luton. I believe Meridian is miles away in Canterbury, is this just another example of British organisation?
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Chris.SE11:28 PM
Paul:
Meridian isn't "in" Canterbury. The Meridian region covers the S and SE, BUT because there is a limited number of ITV HD regions (distributed separately from the SD versions), Meridian is also fed to Anglia.
ITV HD Anglia East region is only currently available to Satellite viewers. There is no Anglia West HD region at all.
ITV HD London is only available in London cable network areas.
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Sunday, 1 November 2020
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Brian6:37 PM
when will sony [channel 48] be available from the sandy heath transmitter
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StevensOnln17:04 PM
Brian: You would have to ask Sony, it was their decision to move some of their channels to the local TV multiplex last year (only available in areas where there is a local TV station on Freeview channel 7 or 8). Some Sandy Heath viewers (in Cambridge and some surrounding areas) can get the local mux from the Madeingly transmitter on the edge of the city.
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Thursday, 5 November 2020
Transmitter engineering
1:34 PM
1:34 PM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to essential engineering from 5 Nov 11:54 until 5 Nov 12:30. . [BBC]
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Saturday, 7 November 2020
Transmitter engineering
4:44 AM
4:44 AM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to essential engineering from 5 Nov 11:54 until 5 Nov 12:30. . FM: Off the air due to essential engineering from 5 Nov 11:25 until 5 Nov 11:52. . [BBC]
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Wednesday, 11 November 2020
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Mr peachey2:53 PM
We have retuned the tv after the channels changed last week . Why are we still getting a retune message on screen.
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StevensOnln13:15 PM
Mr peachey: Some broadcasters still appear to be showing the retune message, perhaps on the basis that not all viewers will have retuned yet. You can simply ignore the message if you have already retuned.
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