Full Freeview on the Waltham (Leicestershire, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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The symbol shows the location of the Waltham (Leicestershire, England) transmitter which serves 770,000 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Waltham 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Waltham transmitter?
BBC East Midlands Today 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Nottingham NG2 4UU, 28km northwest (306°)
to BBC East Midlands region - 17 masts.
ITV Central News 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 83km west-southwest (244°)
to ITV Central (East) region - 17 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (West)
Are there any self-help relays?
Braunstone | Transposer | 5 km SW Leicester city centre | 170 homes |
How will the Waltham (Leicestershire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 4 Mar 2020 | |||
C/D E | E | E | W | W T | W T | W T | |||
C26 | LNG | LNG | |||||||
C29 | SDN | SDN | SDN | SDN | |||||
C31 | com7 | com7 | |||||||
C32 | BBCA | ||||||||
C34 | D3+4 | ||||||||
C35 | C5waves | C5waves | BBCB | ||||||
C37 | com8 | com8 | |||||||
C41 | _local | ||||||||
C49tv_off | BBCA | BBCA | |||||||
C54tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||
C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
C56tv_off | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | COM8tv_off | |||||
C57tv_off | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | ||||||
C58tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||
C61 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | |||||
C64 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
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 17 Aug 11 and 31 Aug 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-5 | 250kW | |
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 50kW | |
SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 25kW | |
com8 | (-12.7dB) 13.4kW | |
com7 | (-13.9dB) 10.2kW | |
Mux 1* | (-14dB) 10kW | |
Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-14.9dB) 8kW | |
Mux C*, Mux D*, LNG | (-17dB) 5kW |
Local transmitter maps
Waltham Freeview Waltham DAB Waltham AM/FM Waltham TV region BBC East Midlands Central (East micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Waltham transmitter area
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Thursday, 11 July 2013
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John Pilkington11:51 AM
I have a response to my email of 10 July. It's similar to John's as reported on 8 July. Mast operator reports no issues, info passed to infrastructure team, will contact me again if they have anything to say. Ho hum.
There has been a change; I've quoted details.
It might be within their specs and I can live with it. Good luck.
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sjapge6:48 PM
WMC is working now !
dont know why , have not updated anything but 5 and 3 work fine - strange !
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Steve Hatton8:01 PM
Yeah mine has suddenly started working. Very strange.
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john9:57 PM
jb38,
Thank-you for your comments. There really is so much to learn about broadcasting.
I am not in a position to realign our aerial to Belmont, unfortunately. I had considered asking an extended family member to realign it to Sutton Coldfield, but after I mentioned it in passing they all disappeared.
I take what you say about negative offset frequencies. If that is the case, I believe it has always been the case (recent past anyway). PSB2 on Waltham was unaffected by the 4G retune issue as far as I am aware. It was PSB1 mux that was moved, necessitating the retune on 29 May last.
Here no unusual reception difficulties were noticed until 16 June when ITV failed. Subsequently I noted that Channel5, E4, More 4 and such (but not Channel4 or Channel4+1) showed only black screens.
It appears that ITV1, ITV+1 and Channel5 are back here this evening. How long for? Let's hope...
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Friday, 12 July 2013
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John Pilkington8:44 AM
It's fixed. The mysterious extra video streams in the ITV/CH4/CH5 mux have gone away. Good for the 'infrastructure team'!
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RogerA2:33 PM
Thanks Waltham! I would like to know what you have done as all my channels have returned on Mux 2. Again Thanks.
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john4:29 PM
At last, someone's 'put a bob in'..
All PSB2 channels appear OK here - and I didn't touch a thing - honest ...
Thanks Waltham..
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Saturday, 13 July 2013
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Stuart1:53 PM
Loughborough
All channels have reappeared after a rescan of the channels in WMC. Thank you Waltham what ever it is you have changed - My wife is very happy again.
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Stuart's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 15 July 2013
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Dominic Payer8:54 AM
Last Tuesday's Microsoft security updates included a security update to some Media Center components.
See Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-057 - Critical : Vulnerability in Windows Media Format Runtime Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2847883) and
Microsoft Support
This is causing problems for some. See Microsoft's MS13-057 Update Also Breaks Down YouTube Videos, Some Games .
We will never know whether Microsoft fixed the PSB2 problem (perhaps unintentionally) or Arqiva changed a setting at Waltham.
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John Pilkington9:19 AM
The signal structure reverted to its original form, and your pictures returned, a few hours after my email with stream analyses was passed to the 'infrastructure team'. Maybe you think that's a coincidence. :-)
I'm glad that the people at Arquiva did what they did, and that you're viewing again.
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