Full Freeview on the Waltham (Leicestershire, England) transmitter
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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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Waltham (Leicestershire, 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
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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Sunday, 9 June 2013
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Ms P Fitzpatrick8:41 PM
Our rooftop aerial points towards Witham transmitter
And has worked well, getting all usual channels until about two weeks ago. There are three digi boxes fed from aerial.
Present signal gives about six channels, all corrupted
Auto/manual tuning leaves boxes 'database empty'
Also, new flat screen tele with FV shows same problem
Have tried everything....? Can U help?
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Monday, 10 June 2013
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John Griffith5:03 PM
We are in Newark with an aerial pointing at Waltham. Signal is good. Auto search on our Panasonic TV loads the East Midlands stations as expected, but auto search on our Humax PVR picks up the Belmont signals first (even though the signal is weak) and loads these for BBC & ITV. If you have this problem, do a manual search on channels 29,49,54,56,57 & 58 following a default reset. It is a bit tedious, but works!
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Dominic Payer11:27 PM
Nottingham
Ms P Fitzpatrick: Get the cable and connections to your aerial checked.
If water has entered the junction box at the aerial the connections will corrode and the signal passed from the aerial to the cable will become weak or non-existent.
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Tuesday, 11 June 2013
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Clive Johnson10:43 AM
Leicester
Last nighht, Monday, 10TH. JUNE, I LOST ALL "INDEPENDENT" CHANNELS FROM WALTHAM-ON-THE-WOLDS - ITV1, Channel 4, Yesterday etc. BBC channels were fine. I had previously done the required retune for BBC and everything was functioning normally.
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Clive Johnson7:18 PM
Leicester
The missing channels reappeared during the afternoon of Tuesday 11 June. This was not as a result of any action I took.
Clive Johnson
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Thursday, 13 June 2013
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Glen3:02 PM
Since you changed the signal strength to help with 4g I now don't have BBC channels. If it stays like this I will cancel my TV license as it is only for BBC anyway. It worked perfectly before. Or you could supply me with a new aerial
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Michael5:25 PM
Glen: Read 29th May 2013 retunes for Oxfordshire and East Midlands | 4G-at-800 | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice - it will stay that way until you retune your Freeview equipment.
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Darren Cotton8:45 PM
Last couple of days we have noticed that we are unable to pick up some of the standard Def ITV, channel 4 & 5. We run a media centre and we have never had an issue with signage even though the aerial is in the loft space.
Wondering if its the effect of 4G roll out in the Leicester area?
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jb389:01 PM
Darren Cotton: Although it should never be taken as a foregone conclusion that 4G would have any effect on reception, that is unless living within a hundred yards or so from the mast, but though if any of Waltham's channels were going to be affected then it would be in the order of: HD (Ch58) / COM6 (Ch57) / COM5 (Ch56) and to a lesser extent PSB2 (Ch54)
If though reception was from Leicester's PSB only relay, then 4G is unlikely to have any effect unless being next door to the mast.
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Friday, 14 June 2013
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Darren Cotton7:57 AM
jb38: thanks for coming back to me. Its seems really odd that something is effecting both our media centres on the same channels and but PCs use a different makes of tuner.
Seems to be affecting ITV1, ITV2, ITV1+1, More4, E4.
Channel 5 seems to be back today though.
The signal is spit 3 ways but does go via a booster to clear up the single; we may need to look a 4way booster to see if that helps!
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