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, 4 April 2016
Transmitter engineering
10:09 AM
10:09 AM
WALTHAM transmitter - Possible weak signal [DUK]
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Tuesday, 12 April 2016
Transmitter engineering
12:09 AM
12:09 AM
WALTHAM transmitter - Possible weak signal [DUK]
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Sunday, 1 May 2016
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Mike Davison9:38 PM
My sister lives in NG18 and her not too new Philips digital TV appeared to have lost Ch4, Ch5 and other programmes from PSB2 whilst still receiving ITV1 at locn.3 perfectly. As it happened I had a Bush STB with me so checked out reception with that. It looks like both Belmont and Waltham can be received successfully but initially the Bush box used different PSB2's for ITV1 and Ch4 so I manually scanned the PSB2 that ITV1 registered and got Ch4 from that PSB2 as well. There is clearly no antenna/downlead problems. Re-checking the Philips reception after a further channel search I found all the 'missing' channels were on obscure locations, mostly in the 200's. My STB always put the channels where they are normally found but the Philips TV is behaving very strangely. Any ideas anyone?
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Mike Davison9:45 PM
Further to my post about my sister's Philips TV. Even some of PSB1's channels were out of location notably CBBC, Radios2 and 4ex but BBC1, 2 and 4 were correctly located. Very odd.
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Monday, 2 May 2016
MikeP
11:23 AM
Trowbridge
11:23 AM
Trowbridge
Mike Davison:
As the Belmont signals appear first during the automatic tuning process, many TVs set those as the 'default' services but when it find similar ones from a different transmitter they usually get entered into the Channel Guide on different Logical Channel Numbers (LCNs).
The way round this is to look up the actual transmission channels for the wanted multiplexes, see the top of this page for those relating to Waltham, and then manually tune those. Check your TV manual for how to perform a manual tune, it varies between sets.
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MikeP's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Transmitter engineering
2:32 PM
2:32 PM
WALTHAM transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:47 today. [BBC]
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Mike Davison7:26 PM
Mike P: It's a pain of a TV to setup. It only refers to frequencies and not channel numbers if you try and check
the channel performance, so picking the ITV1 channel which is correctly located in '3', I scanned it and channels
were found but they weren't in their correct locations, Channel 4 did not appear at '4'. My sister is a technophobe so just told me to give up and she wouldn't let me leave the Bush STB which behaved perfectly. I'm going to see if I can talk her through the antenna disconnect, auto scan, antenna re-connect and scan again to see if that resets it to something sensible.
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Transmitter engineering
8:32 PM
8:32 PM
WALTHAM transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:47 today to 17:00 today. [BBC]
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Tuesday, 3 May 2016
Transmitter engineering
5:32 AM
5:32 AM
WALTHAM transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:47 yesterday to 17:00 yesterday. [BBC]
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Wednesday, 4 May 2016
Transmitter engineering
5:32 AM
5:32 AM
WALTHAM transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:47 on 02 May to 17:00 on 02 May. [BBC]
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