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 15/04/2024 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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Tuesday, 1 November 2011
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Pete12:10 PM
St. Neots
I am now having some difficulty in receiving the group of services on channel 67, Sky News etc. The reception of this group was perfect until around a month ago, I have retuned and checked the aerial and all connections and everything is OK. All the other channels are still perfect. I only live around 8 to 10 miles as the crow flies from Sandy Heath, Post Code PE19 5LF. The aerial is wide band and medium gain. Any ideas please.
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Pete's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Pete: The first place to look is at the Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice page.
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Pete3:39 PM
Briantist,
Thank you for the response. However nothing has changed in my home set up, all the equipment has been sitting there since the last re-tune, at which all channels were received without problems for quite some time. Until about a month or so ago the services on channel 67 all come up with low or no signal, I cannot see how this can be single channel interference.
Pete
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Pete: OK, given that C67 previously had ArqB and since 14th September 2011 has had ArqA, it would be quite important that you did this My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+1, has no sound or the channel line up is wrong | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice to reset the box.
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Wednesday, 2 November 2011
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Steve5:54 PM
CB10 postcode...why has Sky become unavailable on channel 82
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Clive Windy10:26 PM
My mother lives in Toft, Cambridgeshire CB23.
We are getting signal from Sandy Heath.
We can pick up Dave on Channel 67 - all OK.
However, when the box decides to check for new channels, it detects a "better" Dave on channel 52 (which I understand it it moving to at end of November). Any ideas why her box thinks it has already moved?
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Thursday, 3 November 2011
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Clive Windy12:01 AM
Forgot to mention that there is no signal at all on channel 52.
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Pete3:39 PM
Briantist,
Thanks for further advice, however this did not change anything. I have now managed to have a look at the signal strength and quality on channell 67 it comes up poor and weak respectively. All the other channels from Sandy Heath transmitting a bouquet of services all register very good and strong respectively. Any further ideas please?
Pete
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