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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Friday, 26 December 2014
Transmitter engineering
10:32 PM
10:32 PM
WALTHAM transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 20:56 today. [BBC]
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Saturday, 27 December 2014
Transmitter engineering
4:31 AM
4:31 AM
WALTHAM transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 23:33 yesterday, BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 20:56 yesterday to 23:33 yesterday. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
WALTHAM transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 23:33 yesterday, BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 20:56 yesterday. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
7:32 AM
7:32 AM
WALTHAM transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 20:56 yesterday to 23:33 yesterday, BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 23:33 yesterday to 05:04 today. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
10:31 AM
10:31 AM
WALTHAM transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 23:33 yesterday to 05:04 today, BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 20:56 yesterday to 23:33 yesterday. [BBC]
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Sunday, 28 December 2014
Transmitter engineering
4:32 AM
4:32 AM
WALTHAM transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 23:33 on 26 Dec to 05:04 yesterday, BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 20:56 on 26 Dec to 23:33 on 26 Dec. [BBC]
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This coverage map is very miss-leading as it shows areas of Leicestershire and even Warwickshire where the signal is no use at all , Hinckley , Nuneaton and many areas around rely upon Sutton Coldfield . I have phoned both BBC and ITV but they seem confused and the so called 'East Midlands' and West Midlands political sub regions only confuses matters so often Hinckley (in S.Leics) news items are not actually seen in Hinckley because of the damnable situation whereby East Midlands is based not in Birmingham (capital city of the Midlands for at least two centuries, but Nottingham . A Whitehall cock-up we never asked for.
So the situation is Freeview has to be from Sutton' (which we have been served reliably from since the old days of VHF B/W since the 1950's) and Sky boxes are set to Nottingham , Virgin cable comes to Hinckley from Leicester so it is East Midlands which means news of our neighbour over the Watling St (A5) doesn't get shown . Might I again ask for one Midlands and if neaded perhaps a longer regional news to cover ALL our region and please stop publishing a map thats obviously wrong.
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MikeP
8:43 PM
8:43 PM
Rog
Birmingham has been well recognised as the main city (only countries have capital cities) of the WEST midlands for many, many years. Nottingham has been regarded by a great many as the main city for the East Midlands. Almost all who live within the geographical area commonly recognised as East Midlands (mainly Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, parts of Lincolnshire, parts of Northamptonshire and parts of south east Staffordshire) would not consider Birmingham as having any cultural of even ethnic relationship with them. I lived in Nottinghamshire (Vale of Belvoir) for many years and certainly did not want West Midlands nes stories replacing those relating to the East Midlands. Neither did many of my customers in the East Midlands coal fields want anything to do with weat midlands notions.
The problem you are describing has nothing to do with politics, more to the terrain that affects signal reception, and always did in analogue days so it is nothing new at all.
I, for one, would not like to see only a 'Midlands' region at all, we need to keep the separation of services. What would someone in Stamford, Lincolnshire want with 'local news' from Telford? Most do not want that degree of blanket coverage, that's why the providers separated out the East and West services many, many years ago.
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Monday, 29 December 2014
Transmitter engineering
4:32 AM
4:32 AM
WALTHAM transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 23:33 on 26 Dec to 05:04 on 27 Dec, BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 20:56 on 26 Dec to 23:33 on 26 Dec. [BBC]
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Wednesday, 31 December 2014
Transmitter engineering
4:31 AM
4:31 AM
WALTHAM transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 23:33 on 26 Dec to 05:04 on 27 Dec. [BBC]
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