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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Waltham (Leicestershire, England) mast?
Waltham transmitter - Waltham transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 27/11/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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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Friday, 27 December 2013
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Richard Borland1:40 PM
Has there been an issue in the southeast (hove) since the 23rd dec. I realise we have had some extreme weather conditions but we don't tend to suffer as much as we have. No itv and channel 4 and when there is it's very poor.
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MikeP
8:15 PM
8:15 PM
Michael:
I stated that all *terrestrial* transmissions before switchover were analogue. Sky is not a terrestrial service and has been digital since 1998. There were NO digital terrestrial transmissions (other than brief test transmissions) before 2008. Wikipedia is again wrong or at best misleading. It is confusing the digital services from Sky with those from the terrestrial broadcasters and should not be relied upon.
After my 50 years in the industry before retiring I am well aware of what format the transmissions we using.
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MikeP
8:17 PM
8:17 PM
Mike Davison:
Would you please enlighten us as to which terrestrial services were being transmitted digitally before 2008?
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MikeP: As I recall, Channel 4 was *distributed* as 10Mbps motion-JPEG to the terrestrial broadcast points before the launch of DVB-T in 2008. But it was, of course, converted to "625 line" PAL for broadcast.
And PAL did have two digital components: Teletext and NICAM (sound).
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Mike Davison: To be technically accurate, Sky was part of the British Digital Broadcasting bid for what became ONdigital.
It was the regulator that required them to remove their membership.
Sky were keen to have a "finger in both pies" at the time.
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Michael11:56 PM
MikeP: I didn't mention Sky in my post. But if there were no digital terrestrial transmissions before DSO, then what was I was watching via my digital box and then IDTV via an aerial before 2008? Unless we're not talking about the same thing...?
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Saturday, 28 December 2013
MikeP
9:41 PM
9:41 PM
I am talking about the reception of TV services from terrestrial transmitters to be received by the general public. There were NO digital terrestrial transmission for general public reception prior to the switch from analogue to digital broadcasting from around 2008. There were no domestic TV sets capable of such terrestrial reception until much later.
The *only* digital broadcasts available until then were from Sky starting around 1997/8 or previously from British Satellite Broadcasting from around 1992/3 (using the squarial), they were bought out by Sky to gain access to the digital technology and contracts owned then by BSB. These digital services did not catch on well due to various technical problems and costs.
All terrestrial broadcasts of BBC1, BBC2, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 prior to 2008 intended for general public reception were entirely analogue, any digital transmissions, as mentioned by Briantist, were the links between distribution centres and the transmitter sites (these were then always converted back to analogue format for transmission to the general public). There were, therefore, no digital terrestrial transmissions for reception by the general public - and it wasn't just Ch4. The microwave link system was gradually converted to a digital system in preparation for the full digital switchover from 2008.
Michael, I suspect you were watching analogue transmissions on a TV that was possibly capable of both analogue and digital reception - but with no digital signals being available to the general public you would have to have been watching analogue transmissions. Perhaps you can enlighten us with a model number of your 'digital box', the only ones I know of were for satellite reception and not terrestrial.
Several years ago ITT sold a 'digital' TV set, but it was entirely for analogue signal reception, it then converted the signals into digital format internally for processing before conversion back to analogue to drive the CRT and loudspeakers. It did not have any digital reception capability.
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MikeP
9:47 PM
9:47 PM
One other point. Integrated Digital Televisions (IDTVs) could be connected via a broadband connection and receive programmes via the internet. These would have been in digital format for distribution via the web. However, such receivers could also get analogue terrestrial signals via and aerial and display them. The design could well have 'blurred' the distinction between viewing via the internet and an aerial (of analogue signals). So it could diplay non-broadcast programmes from a digital source, but not received via the aerial.
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MikeP: What was ONdigital, later to become ITV Digital then?
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Sunday, 29 December 2013
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KMJ,Derby12:27 AM
MikeP: Time flies! DTT was on air for 10 years prior to the start of DSO. Regarding satellite, the BSB squarial lasted from 1989 to 1991. as Sky merged with BSB in 1990.
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