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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Thursday, 14 April 2011
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timonthenet10:21 PM
Hi.
I am in Nottingham, overlooking the Trent Valley, in direct line with Waltham. This is in the wrong direction to be effected by any Sandy Heath signals. I performed the re-tune on my DVB-T tuners in my PC just before 6:00am on the morning of the 13th. This worked fine. Today, I also re-tuned my Mothers TV, which also uses the same aerial, and again no problems.
However, in the past, I have had difficulties with too much signal, since there is a great deal of difference in the sensativity of PC tuner cards/USB Devices. I have to use an amplifier (even though there is nothing in line with Waltham mast!!!), but this proved too strong for an AverMedia USB Stick I was using (very high sensativity). I got around the problem by using an Attenuator (bought from Maplins) for around £5. This reduced the strength sufficiently to the more sensative devices, thus making the signal stable again.
I still lose all signals, however, in very good weather, when the 'temperature inversion' problem strikes.
As for multiple signals, I don't know about specific Digi-Box designs, but on a number of PCs, I have been using the very good DVBViewer program (around 15 euros still, I think). The pro version allows for any number of tuners (so if you have six, in theory you can record absolutely anything from Freeview all at the same time!) to co-exist in the same machine, and will differentiate between more than one signal. For some frequencies, the stronger Waltham signal is chosen by the software, but a much weaker Nottingham version still is indicated in the provider listings, but can be egnored.
Sorry for the long post. I will say, though, that even though re-tuning worked for me, it did cause the software to crash once(never done before), and the quality, as mentioned in someone's previous post, has seemingly dimminished slightly. Oh for HD! Roll on August.
Regards,
Tim.
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Tim (not timonthenet)10:27 PM
I am in NG25 and just checked Ch 31 554Mhz from Waltham (ITV1,2,Ch4 etc). All seems fine.
I have had co-channel problems with Emley Moor on Ch49 - signal strength was good but picture problems.
Do you get a strong (ish) secondary stations on presets 800-810. Are these also Ch31?
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KMJ,Derby11:03 PM
Ben Johnson If you still have Mux2 channels in the channel list under the old frequency your tuner will ignore the identical set of channels on C31 if scanning to add channels. If you don't want to do a factory reset you will have to delete any Mux2 channels from the channel list then do a manual tune for C31.
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Friday, 15 April 2011
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Steve12:13 AM
Spalding
I don't think it's cross channel with Sandy Heath as I'm on Sandy at home. Got all mux at home with no problems and none are on 31.
In the shop ( about 1/2 a mile from the customer) we are also on Waltham and have no problem with mux2. It's got me stumped.
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Claire12:21 AM
Derby
In Derby, aerial pointed at Waltham. Done a retune, and have all channels, but mystified by an extra channel after 800 and 801 and before BBC1: .1254347755, when selected asks for the lock key.Any ideas what it is????
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Claire: Please see Clairehttps://ukfree.tv/fullstory.php?storyid=1107051675 .
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Steve9:38 AM
Spalding
Briantist, I've had a look at that link before I went back, there's nothing in the property that's got an RF output, but I did take the DVD recorder right out of the circuit and the TV still wouldn't play ball.
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