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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Tuesday, 21 March 2023
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Ross Trotter2:16 PM
Mike Davison: The channel list by mutiplex for Emley Moor appears to be missing. As this is my local transmitter and I wanted to see if there are any changes tomorrow - March 22 - this is a bit annoying. I can get the pages for Bilsdale and Belmont but not Emley Moor.
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Chris.SE3:03 PM
Ross Trotter:
It's already been mention that there's some sort of bug that the site owner has yet to fix.
There are no changes (yet) at Emley, BUT it is listed for Planned Engineering with possible effect "Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels"
The only upcoming changes are here
Updates and alerts | Freeview
Looks like Emley is having to wait until the 26th April for the HD update.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/med…land
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Chris.SE3:07 PM
BBC1 HD update info
https://www.bbc.co.uk/med…land
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StevensOnln13:10 PM
Ross Trotter: The BBC have now published a list of which regions will be getting the HD upgrade on Freeview tomorrow.
On 22nd March 2023 viewers in the following regions will gain their local version of BBC One HD on Freeview channel 101, carrying the full regional news service, in place of the existing BBC One HD national channel with the red screen during regional news slots:
East Midlands
West Midlands
East Yorks & Lincs
London
Channel Islands
Yorkshire
Viewers in the remaining regions will need to wait until 26th April (although this date is subject to change). See the link below for full details.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/med…land
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Wednesday, 22 March 2023
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Chris.SE2:20 PM
Chris.SE:
Apologies, I misread the list, Emley has been done today!
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Wednesday, 31 January 2024
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Oliver9:50 PM
Transmitter engineering: Hi, when are the problems with Waltham mast going to be sorted? It's been saying black screen/pixelation for a long time which we see continuously. Thanks, Oliver.
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Chris.SE10:45 PM
Oliver:
I'm afraid Arqiva never give details of the work taking place or how long it's going to take especially as a lot of it may be weather dependant. What we do know is that a lot of main transmitters and some of the larger relays have had significant Planned Engineering over the last 12 months or so. We know that extensive work is involved ensuring that the mast structures remain in good condition and safe, such work involves working at height on stay cables and such like, often close to the antenna when there'd be need to operate at reduced power or have brief interruptions. It's worth remembering that it's a good 10 years since DSO when much important similar work would likely have been carried out, although some may also have been done during 880MHz and 700MHz clearance when major antenna work would have been carried out at many transmitters.
In addition to this Planned Engineering you may unfortunately suffer brief interference to some multiplex signals over the next two or three days due to Tropospheric Ducting being present with the current High Pressure weather system. This causes signals to travel a lot further than normal so interfering signals from distant transmitters elsewhere in the UK or Europe disrupt your wanted signals. Do NOT retune, you just have to wait until conditions change, the interference can last seconds, minutes or occasionally sometimes longer. Not all multiplexes are affected at a given instance.
The BBC have currently issued warnings of some possible disrupuption -
High pressure could affect TV & Radio services across parts of the UK - 31 Jan 2024 | Help receiving TV and radio
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Thursday, 2 May 2024
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Ryan Morris9:19 AM
Nottingham
Can you tell me when the Waltham transmitter is back online? We currently have not reception at all. I am based at Antenna (ironically) Beck Street, Nottingham, NG1 1EQ.
Cheers,
Ryan Morris
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Chris.SE3:07 PM
Ryan Morris:
As you can see from the post before yours, the transmitter is having Planned Engineering. However, interruptions to transmission are normally brief, sometimes they may operate on reduced power or the reserve antenna (lower down the mast) but you still shouldn't have any problems.
If your signals haven't already returned, did you retune at all when you had no signal? This is never advised when you have no signal or badly pixellated pictures, you cannot tune to signals that aren't there or can't be decoded. The usual result is to clear your correct tuning oreven tune to weak signals from another transmitter which won't be reliable.
If you did retune, try again when signals are normal and check in your TV Tuning section that you are correctly tuned to Waltham's UHF channels as listed right at the very top of this page.
If you are still having problems with pixellation, have you had the Free Filter from Restore TV?
You should have received a postcard from them, to check, put your postcode in at
https://restoretv.uk/post…ure/
You may need to get in touch with them for the Filter as you are surrounded by Mobile phone masts.
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Wednesday, 3 July 2024
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Gordon Insley1:59 PM
Why are we seeing these repeated weekly notices that have been continuosly posted for months now about poor reception on both the Waltham and Sutton Coldfield Freeview TV transmitters?
Is there some lengthy engineering work ongoing on with the masts or transmitting equipment? or some other reason?
Please advise
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