Full Freeview on the Waltham (Leicestershire, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
Google Streetview | Google map | Bing map | Google Earth | 52.801,-0.801 or 52°48'4"N 0°48'5"W | LE14 4AJ |
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, 29 March 2018
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John1:11 PM
I have no colour on the area map, how can I tell if we are in a strong signal area
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StevensOnln12:25 PM
John: If you enter a full postcode into this website you'll be able to see a coverage prediction for your location.
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Friday, 30 March 2018
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John Ath12:08 PM
Derby
I live in DE1 3EE. For the last few days, I have been having trouble with the reception of the USA +1 channel. When I reset my tv, sometimes it removes this channel - then re-instates it later... Is this just due to intermittent atmospheric interference?
Thank you,
John
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John's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 2 April 2018
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Mike8:47 PM
I can confirm that Ch56 & Ch37 are swapped, Ch56 is HD and so has BBC4HD + others and Ch37 is SD and has Sky News + others. Also the transponder list shown as current for 7th Feb 2018 is not the case and is in reality the column to its left
On another topic, some years back, it was possible to print all the above information out in a nicely formatted document, I cannot find a way to do that now that the site has been redesigned
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Tuesday, 3 April 2018
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Roy Freer7:28 PM
After performing a retune on 3 TVs and my PVR on 3rd April 2018, I find that C37 has the programs which were on C56 and vice versa.
I suggest your Waltham page information needs updating.
Thanks.
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Wednesday, 4 April 2018
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Roy Freer12:53 AM
I also notice that ITV3 (10) has moved from C29 to C54
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Thursday, 19 April 2018
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David Heddon2:52 PM
II have 3 Sony Freeview TVs all tuned to Waltham. On one of them, the newest, it will not tune BBC4HD,
All other channels tune ok and above channel is received ok on other 2 sets.
Any advice/help would be appreciated
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StevensOnln14:34 PM
David Heddon: Do you have the other HD channels on the TV that is missing BBC Four HD? Please provide a full postcode so that we can see where you are in relation to the transmitter and your predicted coverage etc.
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Wednesday, 25 April 2018
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David Campbell4:40 PM
For about a month our Humax PVR has lost The ITV3 channel, which this (Waltham) web page reassures me is still on tuning channel 29. A manual retune (to avoid losing our recording reservations) did not retrieve it. Ringing Humax help I quickly found that ITV3 had been moved to Channel 54 and retuning this solved the problem. The info on your web pages is detailed and useful, but only if it's kept up-to-date!
I would prefer a more tabular arrangement of the data.
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Thursday, 7 June 2018
> The info on your web pages is detailed and useful, but only if it's kept up-to-date!
My thoughts exactly. I don't think the channel given for COM8 is correct either: the table shows it as 37 but at
COM7 and COM8 - a516digital
it's listed as 56 (the SFN channel that COM8 is being moved to nationwide). Waltham isn't an isolated example: the information on Tacolneston is wrong too. Is ukfree.tv being updated at all?
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