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 25/09/2023 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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Monday, 20 March 2023
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Mike Davison11:12 AM
Wetherby
StevensOnln1: I did say 'if'. There could be some people like me who have a non DVB-T2 PVR
which has never been replaced(mine is kept for some of its old content and nothing else) and
it is their only programme recording means. I have had a DVB-T2 PVR since digital switch-over.
There is hopefully a start to the trend of replacing the original DVB specs. by S2 and T2 services.
Given how long 405 lasted after 625 duplication, there could be some time to wait.
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StevensOnln12:55 PM
Mike Davison: You still seem to misunderstand the situation. Nobody will need to replace any equipment as the BBC SD channels will be continuing exactly as they are now on Freeview. All that is happening is that the current BBC One HD channel on 101 will be replaced with a regional version of BBC One HD, which will match the region currently available in SD on Freeview channel 1. As the SD version will not be closing, you don't need to replace your PVR or any other equipment. It is only satellite viewers using older equipment that does not support DVB-S2 (old Sky digiboxes and Sky+ boxes or early Freesat boxes) that will loose BBC SD channels if they do not upgrade.
Most viewers won't even need to retune as most TVs, PVRs and set top boxes that receive HD channels will handle the change automatically. In short, you only need to retune if BBC One HD disappears from 101, otherwise no further action is required.
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Mike Davison4:54 PM
Wetherby
StevensOnln1: I never said they would lose anything but now they have a reason to upgrade.
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StevensOnln15:44 PM
Mike Davison: Give that regional news is only an hour a day, I doubt that it will be much incentive for people who haven't already upgraded when the other 23 hours of output each day have already been available for 10+ years.
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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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Friday, 19 May 2023
Transmitter engineering
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Waltham transmitter - Waltham transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 15/05/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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