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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Monday, 8 April 2019
G
Gordon2:07 PM
P Lamb - Uttoxeter
Recent changes to the transmission format and frequencies for some Freeview channels has made them unreceivable by older TV's since they are transmitted in T2 format (old being 5 / 6 years of age or more).
If your TV does not have a compatible Freeview tuner that wil handle both T1 & T2 transmission formats then certain channels will now be unavailable. To solve the problem you could use a T1 / T2 compible Freeview digi-box or replace the TV with one that is T1/T2 compliant.
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StevensOnln12:12 PM
Peter : You might be able to get the Waltham transmitter which carries BBC/ITV East Midlands news, however by the time frequency changes are completed next year it won't provide a good signal, according to the Digital UK checker. You can watch BBC news from any region on iPlayer, or look at getting Freesat.
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StevensOnln16:23 PM
Gordon: There have been no recent changes of modulation from DVB-T to DVB-T2 on any multiplex. All that has changed (and all that has had an actual date announced) are changes to frequencies at many transmitters. No one needs to buy a new TV or set top box because of this, please don't post inaccurate advice like this, no one needs to buy a new Freeview HD box or TV because of a reception problem following any frequency change.
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Friday, 24 May 2019
MikeP
9:17 PM
9:17 PM
Mr D Beresford:
The channels used by the Watham transmitter are as per you final list, the earlier listing you give is incorrect. Use the Digital UK Coverage Checker at Digital UK - Coverage checker to determine the correct current channels used.
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Monday, 22 July 2019
M
Mike2:05 PM
Your listing above shows BBC1 HD and BBC2 HD as C35 (586.0MHz)
All of my receiving devices (TVs, Manhattans etc) are receiving BBC1 HD and BBC 2 HD on C58 (770.0MHz) (If I try C35, there is no signal
Is your listing an old one or are there repeaters using different frequencies for Waltham that I may be on? I am just South of Leicester
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MikeP
8:10 PM
8:10 PM
Mike:
The listings here are awaiting updating as the site owner has many other responsibilities. Fort accurat listings look at the Digital UK Coverage Checker.
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Tuesday, 23 July 2019
M
Mike1:32 AM
Thanks for the reply. I'm not quite sure where this 'Digital UK Coverage Checker' can be found but it
doesn't matter as ......
The correct information can be found at this old listing stored in Wayback Machine .....
Which Freeview channels does the Waltham transmitter broadcast?
I just wonder why the 'site owner' changed the correct listing to non-existent channels
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Mike1:54 AM
Ok, I think I have worked this out
Somebody is confusing the new channels for the 2020 release of frequencies to 5G with the existing ones.
After the frequency release, BBC1 HD, for example, will release 700MHz to 5G and be allocated C35 (586.0MHz)
Still a year away
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Chris.SE8:29 AM
Mike:
The link to the Digitaluk checker was provided in MikeP's previous post but here it is again
Digital UK - Coverage checker
The site owner did not "change the correct listing to non-existent channels". On many of the transmitter pages rather than showing current usage, the listings are inadvertently showing the final channels after completion of the 700Mhz clearance and I'm afraid not all of those are accurate. This is due to some bugs in the scripts that collect the data and try to update pages and the site owner has not had the time to correct all the information, there are over a 1000 transmitters & relays around the UK.
That is why we always tell people to put their postcode into the Digitaluk checker to get the latest information about predicted reception at their location and any changes and retuning events. This information has been repeated many times on various transmitter pages on this site.
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