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 04/11/2024 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, 8 June 2018
MikeP
3:05 PM
3:05 PM
Richard Russell:
Please see the Digital UK website at Coverage Checker - Detailed View That gives all the4 correct channel numbers.
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> Please see the Digital UK website
I appreciate that one can usually find the correct information somewhere, but if the info here (ukfree.tv) cannot be relied upon it would be better to delete it entirely.
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Saturday, 9 June 2018
MikeP
4:18 PM
4:18 PM
Richard Russell:
There is nothing we contributors can do to correct that despite asking the site owner, Briantist, to make the needed changes. He seems to have disappeared from the site for some reason we do not know. None of us can make any changes to this site, sadly.
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Friday, 15 June 2018
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Gordon Insley9:02 AM
Hi,
The Digital UK checker shows the Channel Mux numbers but no information on which TV channels are transmitted by each of the mux's.
On the basis that the UK FreeTV site is no longer up to date with the TV channels information where can one find accurate transmitter infomation showing which mux transmits which TV channels for each of the following: Sutton Coldfield, Waltham, Belmont, Belper (relay), Little Eaton (relay), Derby (relay), Bolehill (relay), Darley Dale (relay) and Stanton Moor (relay) ?
Thank you for your assistance.
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StevensOnln110:19 AM
Gordon Insley: The page linked below on Digital UK shows which channels are currently on which mux
Digital UK | Channel listings
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Tuesday, 26 June 2018
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Gordon Insley6:53 PM
StevensOnln1...........
Thank you for the info and the link for Freeview Mux / Channel info
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Saturday, 30 June 2018
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Adrian Brown7:30 PM
Belper
Anyone else having problems with reception of the channels on ArqA? On one TV, we can't get them at all at the moment, but usually have no issue at all. A second TV that uses a different aerial can get them, but the signal is very intermittent and blocky. All other channels seem OK at the moment, and I've eliminated the possibility of local analogue interference - which couldn't explain the issue anyway as there's nothing that's connected to both TVs.
We've also had similar issues with the HD channels, with one TV not able to get them at all, while the second (newer) one could. But that issue seems to be OK now (at the moment!)
Both aerials are roof-mounted wideband, and have always provided a very good signal strength from Waltham in the past. Location is DE56 1ET.
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Adrian's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 1 July 2018
MikeP
4:52 PM
4:52 PM
Adrian Brown:
It is highly likely that the problem is due the hot weather. Such disruptions are occuring in various parts of the UK and there is nothing you nor anyone else can do about it. This has been happening most years during summer hot weather for more than 50 years, so is not new.
DO NOT RETUNE.
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Thursday, 19 July 2018
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Roland1:52 AM
Been getting problems, especially in the evenings, getting a signal for any channel on the ArqA mux.
PVR's signal monitor indicates the Feb-2018 re-allocation didn't happen.
Channel, Mux, Signal Strong, Quality
C49 BBCA 70 100
C54 D3+4 71 100
C58 BBCB 70 0
C29 SDN 67 100
C56 ArqA 65 0
C57 ArqB 68 100
Attempted retune of ArqA on C56 and C25 resulted in no stations being found.
Interestingly, getting HD channels (BBCB) mux okay, despite the above signal quality reading...
Aside:
The coverage checker Coverage Checker - Detailed View
is incorrect with respect to Sandy Heath signal quality being better than Waltham; we are the wrong side of the hill...
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Saturday, 4 August 2018
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Simon Rudbach7:57 PM
We have two TV's with built in Freeview, one in the living room, one in the bedroom. We lost signal on both TV's on Sat 28th July, we have tried daily to retune , the one in the bed room was tuned to full on the wed am but when the TV was turned on at night the signal had gone. Whilst retuneing the bedroom one we can only at best get 13 channels. the TV in the living room has only retuned once fully but whilst watching the set lost signal. Currently we are having to watch TV on cable which we do not like much. Can you give us an idea as to what the problem is.
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