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.
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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Friday, 28 March 2014
Denise steadman: There are indeed current engineering works on the Waltham transmitter.
Normally such work is done during the day, and services are restored from 6pm-9am the next day.,
Can you perform a scan again at 6pm today?
If there is work going on, it's best to not rescan, but wait until the work is finished.
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Saturday, 29 March 2014
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tjhf8:09 AM
Hi my BBC and ITV channels on CH 54 and CH 49 are good but CH 57 and CH 31 are very poor but last night they were OK now there unwatchable .also CH 29 is poorer
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Thursday, 3 April 2014
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Dave Turner7:53 PM
Leicester
Hi,
My neighbours and I are experiencing problems with all of our free view channels. The only channels we can currently view are those broadcast in HD with some signal break up. All of the other channels are almost completely scrambled and unwatchable. I am aware that some work is taking place at the Waltham Transmitter, but this problem has been presenting itself for the past 3 weeks or so. Could you let me know when the works will be completed, and whether or not the bbc are likely to compensate licence payers for the distribution?!?
Cheers
Any info would be appreciated :-)
Post code le8 0jb
Aerial on roof
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SeeMoreDigital8:13 PM
Hi Dave,
There are currently two active HD multiplexes. One is at Ch31 (554MHz) the other is at Ch58 (770MHz). Are both of these working okay for you?
Cheers (52.9548,-1.1581)
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Wednesday, 16 April 2014
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JOHN WEBSTER10:11 AM
Hi
We have both satellite on our main tv and terrestrial as back up and for visitors.Our son has been convalescing with us at the moment and pointed out that all channels on Com5Arqa are breaking up.I checked signal strength and was getting bit error level 2000 ,signal strength 0,signal quality 0.The other channels are perfect.this same phenomena was evident at our old address,but i put this down to our location LE38GX,however we are now at LE167YF,at the top of Clack Hill,Market Harborough.When we moved the local installer told us that the signal was so good a loft aerial would suffice.When i installed the new tv,a Samsung Smart tv everything was fine,so am not sure when this problem started as we do not use this tv very often.Can you please advise.
Many thanks.......John Webster
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JOHN WEBSTER10:22 AM
Hi
Carrying on from my previous post,when i do asignal check i get this info.that means nothing to me
Multiplex tsid5040,onid233a
Network East Midlands id 3023
service id 56c0
Freq.754000khz
Hope this helps
Regards...........John Webster
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MikeB1:01 PM
JOHN WEBSTER: The best start would be a postcode.
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JOHN WEBSTER1:19 PM
Mike
Thanks for speedy reply,i don't know if you have noticed but i have posted twice at 10:11 & 10:22,as i missed out vital info on my first post,the post code is in the first post.but FYI my post code is LE167YF
Regards................JOHN
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MikeB8:00 PM
JOHN WEBSTER: The easiest thing to do is to enter your postcode when you post using the sites prompt - which will bring up all the links with your data - such as SeeMoreDigital's post above. Ok - looking at your position, your 37km from Waltham, on a bearing of 9 degrees. Your TV says its on the East Midlands network, which is Waltham, so thats fine.
Since your closer than I am to Waltham, and on top of a hill (and bearing in mind what your aerial bloke said), I'd normally bet that your signal is abit too strong. However, 0% for the whole of that multiplex is a bit strange. Hopefully JB38 or Dave Lindsay can answer such a problem!
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Michael11:19 PM
John Webster: Wait, you had the same problem with the same setup at a previous address? As in, sky box + cabling + TV? If so I'd be looking at interference in that setup - remove the Sky everything else bar the TV+aerial connection and see what happens.
Could also be solved by moving the aerial with the signal information menu up on the screen, to see if that makes any difference - it did for me with my loft aerial on the ArqB mux, it's always been lower strength than others but moving the aerial got it up to a good enough level.
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