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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Wednesday, 17 August 2011
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phillip wigley1:24 PM
Southwell
Hi All, I have changed the freeview box to a newer one and have the same problem all the bbc's have gone. I've Been to my neibours house to borrow a scart lead and he's had the same problem. He showed me his now working one to convince me the transmitter is on. The answer is he and all his neibours have had to swing their arials to the right a bit. I don't know why but hope this helps.
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Dominic Payer2:00 PM
Judith:
Have you input your postcode to the Sony TV (assuming it is able to accept it) so it downloads and uses the correct regional setup information?
My Sony TV recognises over 150 services, from Waltham and Belmont, but only tunes to the Waltham services.
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Mrs Mary Thomson2:02 PM
PM - 18th August 2011.
We are now getting BBC2 on ITV1 on Freeview and on our analogue Panasonic TV. ITV1 is not appearing on our analogue at all, i.e on Channel 3. What channel should we use to get ITV1 on Freeview, please?
We have a digital aerial and a very good Freeview Humax PVR. Most of the other digital channels seem to be there, but have not counted them all yet.
Should be grateful for a reply, although I know there will be teething problems at first.
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Mrs Mary Thomson2:22 PM
18.08.11
Sorry, Mrs Thomson speaking - one slighty confused lady. I made a mistake in my previous message.
The problem lies with our analogue TV. We are now getting ITV1 on BBC2. ITV1 (Channel 3 on our analogue) is just blank (static). We do not have BBC2 now at all on our analogue. BBC1 is OK. Everything is fine on our Freeview, i.e. BBC1, 2 and ITV1 all on their appropriate channels.
Sorry for the error - hope someone out there can help.
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Mike Dimmick3:56 PM
Mrs Mary Thomson: Yes, that's expected.
BBC Two analogue is now off, permanently.
The high-power BBC digital service has started up, but it was allocated ITV1's analogue frequency, so ITV1 had to move to BBC Two's old location.
Therefore you will find ITV1 analogue on button 2 for the next two weeks.
On the 31st, the remaining analogue channels will be shut down, permanently. The high-power digital multiplexes will replace some of them - all services will move to a different frequency except for SDN, which moved in advance of switchover to get out of the way of transmissions from another site.
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Judith4:07 PM
Melton Mowbray
Dominic
Thanks for the suggestion regarding the postcode. I've looked in my instruction book but can only find details concerning language and country choices. Did you input a postcode to your Sony TV?
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Dominic Payer4:31 PM
Nottingham
Judith
I input a postcode to my Sony TV. It is only 2 years old.
If your TV is older - from the time when any extra channels were thought a bonus - you may only have the option of a full scan and then have to edit the channels found.
From Melton Mowbray your aerial will be pointing towards both Waltham and Belmont.
After the 31st August you could try fitting attenuators to your aerial to reduce the signal from Belmont to below the level your TV can detect. Until Waltham goes up to its post-DSO power level on 31st August you would probably find there is little practical difference between the signal levels from Belmont and Waltham.
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Judith4:42 PM
Melton Mowbray
Dominic
Thanks for the advice. My Sony Bravia TV is about 4 years old. Unfortunately my TV aerial is on top of a converted Water Tower belonging to my neighbour.
I think I will have to put up with the inconvenience of manually retuning.
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phillip wigley5:41 PM
Southwell
hi all has anyone else had to swing their aerial to make it pick up 1, 2, 80, 301 bbc channels? Only I'd like to know if it might cure my problem before I pay someone to go on my roof.I have a large digital aerial and its already been pin pointed at waltham twice in the past. Is the problem now that the new signal is too strong? and swinging it off station attenuates it a bit?I get channels 3,4,5,6,bla bla 81parliament,82 sky news etc all perfect.If I swing the arial will Ilose the other channels, Because even 1 degree to the right equates to several miles from waltham what's going on,or not in my case. regards Phill ps just scaned again no bbc's
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phillip wigley: People often find that their systems are overloaded by the new high power transmissions. If you have an amplifier or booster in your system, you will have to remove it. If you don't, you may have to fit an attenuator to lower the signal level.
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