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.
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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?
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/bbc-look-east-west.jpg)
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
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/itv-anglia.jpg)
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 |
Local transmitter maps
Sandy Heath Freeview Sandy Heath DAB Sandy Heath TV region BBC Cambridge Anglia (West micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sandy Heath transmitter area
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Wednesday, 9 May 2012
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Russ Dring9:38 PM
Spalding
David, Are you receiving Sandy Heath? At your location it is possible that you are picking up Crystal Palace too, is approximately in the same direction. If you did a full rescan your receiver could have taken the SDN multiplex from C.P. at a lower quality. Try scanning with the aerial unplugged then, manually input the following channels 21, if you have H.D. then 24, 27, 48.51,and 52. These are the Sandy channels. Here in Spalding I have 100% quality on all multiplexes signals ranging from 83 - 90%
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Russ Dring9:52 PM
Spalding
David,
Sorry should have said exactly the opposite direction! Your aerial could be picking up C.P. from the back of the aerial. Seeing the S.D.N. multiplex from C.P.on Ch 25, could store it first ignoring the Sandy multiplex on Ch 51. Also at your locaton, though a long way away, Belmont which uses Ch 25 could reduce the quality of C.P.if it has stored it.
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Jason11:12 PM
Hi
Most people need to only retune in manual mode if you live within the Milton Keynes area. If you do an automatic tune there is a chance that the aerial will pick up Oxford aswell as sandy Heath.
So go to menu and select manual tune. Then scan ch21'24'27'48'51 and 52.
Do not choose automatic tune.
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Stephen P11:39 PM
Christine Frost - If you have several TVs that used to work and now all don't it is probably either your aerial or a transmitter problem.
What experience do others locally have.
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Thursday, 10 May 2012
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Brian9:10 AM
March
When will the Sandy Heath Tx'r info in the table above be updated (assuming it will be.
Primarily to show SDN om mux A (Com 4)now being channel 51 (Frequency 714 MHz)
Regards Brian
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Derek Bradnam12:16 PM
Lost all of my BBC channels and my freeview box now will not scan above channel 32.
, this was after recomended re-tune.
Rf is set to channel 68 is this correct?
Before you ask I have unplugged and re-plugged as you have recomended.
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murf9:32 PM
Ely
Is anyone else having problems with lost channels on the COM4 block (e.g. ITV3 on ch10)???
My Mum is reporting this (on Sandy Heath) after retuning this week. She hates anything technical so asked me to help but I know nothing about Freeview (only have Sky, no terrestrial) - saw the stuff about channels above and got her to try only channels on COM4 and she doesn't have them either. Everything else (she watches) seems OK.
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jb3811:46 PM
murf: ITV3 (epg 10) is now operating on high power from Sandy Heath on SDN mux channel 51 but has only been doing so since early yesterday morning, so I suggest that a complete reset should be made on whatever she is using followed by another auto-tune being carried out.
If she doesn't live local to you then ask her to remove the aerial and carry out an auto-tune without it as that will blank out anything stored, then reinsert the aerial again and carry out a final auto-tune and that will load the channels back in again.
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Friday, 11 May 2012
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Nigel Johnson1:16 AM
I cannot receive Sandy heath channel 48, all other channels received at 10/10 quality and signal strength. My postde is PE132EG
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Martini1:54 AM
St. Neots
Nigel,
Try a manual tune of channel 48.
This may get them saved.
Are you picking up Waltham on that TV as you may have those channels from there and the Sandy ones in the 800's.
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