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, 17 April 2014
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Dominic Payer7:37 AM
John Webster
Have you checked for a firmware update to your TV? Some are not delivered OTA and must be installed manually.
Look on its manufacturer's UK support site.
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Monday, 26 May 2014
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Daniel10:00 PM
Hi I live in north London . I keep getting a very good signal from east Midlands . This has been going on for 2 days now . Off and on . I've looked at pressure charts and there is low pressure in UK right now so why's this happing . I've also yesterday got TV from Yorkshire .
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Tuesday, 27 May 2014
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bren7:36 PM
Interesting Daniel, I have been having interference problems recently which is one of the reasons I tried Waltham (i was on Nottingham as i live there)
The problems have clear up the last few days, but I wonder if that is just due to the weather and if the will return when it goes back to bad reception weather, which is presumable high pressure?
One other thing a new local channel for Nottingham went live today but I can't get it on waltham but I did get its test broadcasts when I was on Nottingham, however I am not too fussed about it, I might try reconnecting the aerial which points to notttngham to pick it up from there when I have some time to waste.
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Monday, 2 June 2014
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John Pilkington3:06 PM
Just for info... I posted here on 27 March about transmissions from Waltham on the qpsk mux at 514 MHz/ old Channel 26. My computer sees them but although my 2012-model Panasonic TV sees the signal it cannot tune to the programmes The TV sofware is up-to-date. At that time I thought that perhaps these channels were marked as 'hidden', but now that Notts TV has launched this seems unlikely..
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SeeMoreDigital5:02 PM
I've just performed a scan. And can confirm that channel 26 currently carries just three standard-def TV channels: Notts TV, Pop and Chart Show TV (52.9548,-1.1581)
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Saturday, 7 June 2014
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Joe1:46 PM
Hi
I live in De23 and nearly all of our freeview channels have disappeared.
The only channels that I now have are the BBC channels, excluding the BBC HD ones.
Any idea why this might have happened?
Thanks
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Joe3:49 PM
Hi
All sorted, the signal was coming through a DVD recorder, I've plugged the aerial straight into the TV and all channels are back
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MikeB4:22 PM
Joe: Might be an idea to check the recorder as well - just to make sure its picking up all your channels. On the other hand, it could just be a dodgy aerial lead.
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Tuesday, 1 July 2014
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SeeMoreDigital6:18 PM
Nice to see that 'Channel 4+1 HD' and '4seven HD' has been added to the line-up today...
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SeeMoreDigital: Yes, indeed. I added them to All free TV channels | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice a few days ago.
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