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 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, 1 November 2021
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Chris.SE1:11 PM
John A:
It's most likely to be the Planned Engineering (not upgrades) that's still ongoing as per the post before yours. Do NOT retune (otherwise you'll probably have to do it again when signals are normal).
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Wednesday, 10 November 2021
Transmitter engineering
5:48 AM
5:48 AM
Waltham transmitter - Waltham transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 08/11/2021 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Tuesday, 16 November 2021
Transmitter engineering
10:37 AM
10:37 AM
Waltham transmitter - Waltham transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 15/11/2021 Possible Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Thursday, 18 November 2021
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Peter White11:45 AM
I have Freeview postcode NG340QX and can only get 8 TV channels mainly BBC.
The has been from 15th November. Have tried retuning and sometimes can get max 22 channels but with pixelation on a lot of them and then channel list reduces to 8.
Is this due to the ongoing engineering works ?
Is anybody else having this issue ?
Any idea when it is expected to be rectified ?
Many thanks. Peter
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Peter White11:54 AM
I am having problems with Freeview can only get 8 TV channels from 3 days ago.
Is this due to the engineering works, does anybody have the same issue
I am located at Billingborough, NG340QX ?
Have tried retuning procedure but no joy.
Peter
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Chris.SE3:15 PM
Peter White:
In normal circumstances you should have no issues with reception from Waltham. As you have seen from the post before yours, the transmitter is having Planned Engineering (and has been for the previous two weeks as noted in previous posts). Exactly how such work affects anyone will depend upon location and aerial installation.
Advice as mentioned in many previous posts here, is never to retune when you have badly pixellated pictures or no signal.
Mostly this will just clear the correct tuning, you may even end up incorrectly tuned to very weak signals from another transmitter which may disappear dependent on weather conditions.
Arqiva never publish details of the work or when it will be complete, depending on the nature of the work, it could be weather dependent!
As you have already retuned and no doubt lost some of your correct tuning, your best bet will be to look in your TV Tuning section and check that the UHF channels you are still tuned to are the correct ones for Waltham and do a manual tune on the ones you aren't currently getting. You may of course have to try several times as we don't know which ones may/may not be affected by the engineering at any given time.
In the order PSBs1/BBCA, PSB2/D3&4, PSB3/BBCB HD, COM4/SDN, COM5/ArqA, COM6/ArqB, COM7, Local -
the UHF channels for Waltham are C32, C34, C35, C29, C37, C31, C55, C41.
You may/may not get reliable reception of the Local multiplex as that is lower power and beamed towards the main urban areas of Nottingham and Peterborough/Spalding.
See Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview
for which LCNs (channels in your EPG) are carried on which multiplex.
It might be also worth advising that I've read elsewhere that Waltham seems to have had some more unusual issues with some Channel 4 and Channel 5 sister channels. This has been due to an incident several weeks back at the Red Bee Media Playout centre. I'm not sure all issues have yet been resolved as we are led to believe there was considerable damage.
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Friday, 26 November 2021
Transmitter engineering
3:17 PM
3:17 PM
Waltham transmitter - Waltham transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 22/11/2021 Possible Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 29 November 2021
Transmitter engineering
3:13 PM
3:13 PM
Waltham transmitter - Waltham transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 29/11/2021 Possible Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 6 December 2021
Transmitter engineering
6:09 AM
6:09 AM
Waltham transmitter - Waltham transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 06/12/2021 Possible Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Wednesday, 15 December 2021
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StevensOnln111:45 PM
Prof M.: BBC Four HD and BBC News HD are still being broadcast on COM7 (UHF channel 55) which has not been switched off/retired. COM7's licence is currently due to expire on 30th June 2022, however nothing has been announced regarding what will happen to any of the channels currently on on COM7.
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