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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Monday, 19 February 2018
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MikeB1:56 PM
Paul: Are you tuned to the correct transmitter? I'm on Waltham, and they seem fine. And no, there has been no change in power.
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Have lost BBC 4 HD since the retune in NG7 6HX, on both my Sony TV and Humax FVP4000T. I realise it's changed its Com, but won't come back on 106. (Waltham)
I've done an add channel retune and full retune on both.
Will I have to do a manual add, if so what are the settings (channel, frequency etc)
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StevensOnln111:25 PM
Rod Smith: BBC Four HD is now on COM8, which can be found on UHF channel 56 from Waltham.
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Tuesday, 20 February 2018
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Brian G3:46 PM
Freeview Puzzle
I use a Humax HDR-2000T STB set for Waltham and I found that Sky News and a few other channels had dissapeared and just showed a message that no signal was available. When I checked the tuning I found that Waltham ch 56 had changed from SD to HD. I did a complete manual retune and found that ch 37 had also changed - from HD to SD.
What has happened?
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Wednesday, 21 February 2018
Isn't "PickTV" now on 37 rather than 56 ? Does the information need updating or have I missed something ?
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Saturday, 24 February 2018
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Paul11:51 AM
Swadlincote
Thanks for the comments everyone Re: the Waltham transmitter retune on Feb 7th.
Both my tv and HDR show that there are tuned to 754MHz when I select digital channels that don't work.
(so that's COM8, on UHF channel 56 (754MHz) on Waltham).
So My TV indicates a signal strength changing between 7 and 30 % with a signal quality between 62 to 78 %.
and the picture is ether bloke or blanc or ok foe say 4 seconds Just not watchable.
I have an active Arial splitter which I have swopped for an other with no change to the picture problem.
All other multiplex channels are ok with a singe strength around 98% and quality 100%.
(except the multiplex charring nots TV that has signal strength around 60% and quality 0% that blank all the time). So could it be that my equipment is attenuating 754MHz.
I'm at DE11 7QU. Mu brother is in Tucbrey thither away from the transmitter with no problems.
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Tuesday, 13 March 2018
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Andy5:03 PM
Hi
Do you know if COM8 from Waltham is now only temporarily on channel 56. Or maybe I mean "is the multiplex that carries BBC Four HD going to stay outside the A group ?".
A friend in a fringe area is about to have an aerial installed for Waltham, I had advised that group A would be preferred going forward as I had believed that Waltham DTT transmissions were all "shrinking" back into group A with the 700MHz clearance changes. Have I told them wrong ?
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StevensOnln17:39 PM
Andy: COM8 will remain on UHF channel 56 until it closes (some time between mid 2020 and 2022). A wideband type aerial such as a log periodic would be recommended for most viewers (unless they are in a poor signal area).
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Wednesday, 21 March 2018
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Al11:49 PM
Noticed we have lost a few channels. Most noticeable are the loss of BBC 1 HD and BBC 2 HD. The numbers 101, 102 etc were still in the channel list but we have "no signal".
I have retuned and turned off and now it doesn't find 101, 102 etc any more when retuning.
Searching the site I concluded we are on the Waltham transmitter.
c29, c31, c37, c49 & c54 are being received.
But c56, c57, c58 have no signals.
Also the channels we pickup on c37 are completely different to the ones listed on the site?
The site states:
55 5STAR+1, 86 More4 1, 95 Freesports, 96 Forces TV, 106 BBC Four HD, 115 BT Showcase HD (not free), 205 CBeebies HD, plus 5 others
But our c37 picks up:
29 E4+1, 723 TalkSport, 12 Dave, 233 Skynews etc.
Has something happened? Why were we fine one day and channels have gone the next?
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Thursday, 22 March 2018
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StevensOnln111:11 AM
Al: Retuning was a bad idea as you've now deleted some of your channels which were already correctly tuned. The COM5 and COM8 multiplexes swapped frequency a few weeks ago at Waltham so COM5 is now on UHF channel 37 and COM8 is on 56 (this website doesn't seem to have been updated with any of the recent frequency changes yet) however there has been no change to PSB3 on UHF channel 58 or COM6 on 57 (there are further frequency changes due in early 2020). As there are no transmitter faults showing, start by checking for any loose or damaged cable or connections behind your TV and then follow along the cable as far back as you can safely access towards the aerial.
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