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 27/11/2023 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 |
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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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Sunday, 12 June 2011
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KMJ,Derby8:11 PM
Ian: If Mux New8 ever comes into being it would be very low power and aimed at Birmingham, so would not cause undue problems to Waltham viewers. The rather odd choice of C29 for the SDN mux at Waltham is the direct result of the shortage of available frequencies
in some areas created by the Digital Dividend. The COM muxes at Belmont and Waltham had to be found frequencies not in use at high power in overlapping areas. This gave C53, C56, C57 and C60, with C30 for Belmont and C29 for Waltham as a compromise. Even this arrangement leaves C29 at Chesterfield and C57 at Bolehill overlapping with areas served by Waltham, albeit with signals using vertical polarisation.
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KMJ,Derby8:37 PM
Ben: The relative powers shown in the signal bars above do not refer to a fault or change to the transmitter. Mux2 and MuxA (both 64QAM and 8kW) carry more services at the expense of coverage, although this is normally only noticed towards the edge of the coverage area. The comparison for all the muxes is shown against the coverage of the mux with the best coverage, in this case Mux1 (16QAM and 10kW). If you have suddenly lost Mux2 it is most likely to be either single frequency interference on C31, wet leaves or reflections off wet roofs in the signal path causing deterioration of signal quality or ingress of rainwater in the cable.
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So will channel 59 on waltham (new8) be the same? if so why didn't they use this for mux sdn and 29 for new8 on waltham, at least then 1000s wouldn't have needed to change to a wide band aerial, or do ofcom have shares in areal company's???
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Ian's: mapI's Freeview map terrainI's terrain plot wavesI's frequency data I's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Mike Dimmick11:39 PM
Ian: The coverage areas for the 'interleaved' multiplexes are extremely limited, while it is intended that the three COM muxes should have equal coverage.
You can see the proposed map for NEW7 at Interleaved Frequencies maps | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice though note that this is based on the template and not on a practical aerial, so the covered area is likely to be even smaller.
As for wideband aerials, you had to have one for digital from Waltham before switchover, so there is in fact no change. The planners have only been required to make the PSB channels available within the old analogue aerial group - the commercial muxes are seen as an add-on service which is why they are *not* required to be made available from the relays.
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Sunday, 26 June 2011
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jordan2:53 PM
i live in wombourne and i think i am picking up bbc one on channel 58 because i did a manual tune and got that so how many miles is it from wombourne
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Saturday, 16 July 2011
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Amy Stephen4:04 PM
Leicester
I am in LE2 and lost all mux2 channels during the re-tune on 13th April. I still have poor-no signal and am getting steadily more frustrated as no amount of re-tuning or checking wires has helped.
I live in a block of flats with a shared aerial and none of my neighbours have reported problems. My tv has inbuilt freeview and is less than 10 months old.
The oddest thing I have discovered is that (contrary to "normal" tvs) I regain signal when it is raining. I just checked, it started raining 5 minutes ago. 5 minutes ago I had no access to mux2, now I have good signal and all ITV, channel 4 etc services.
Has anyone else heard of this happening or have experience with this? I really don't know what to do about it.
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Amy's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 17 July 2011
Amy Stephen: Do you perhaps use a booster? If you do, please disconnect it from your system.
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shaun10:15 PM
Derby
hi can anyone help i bought a new digital areial somtime back so as to be ready for the switchover when fitted i got all the channals from the waltham transmitter and it runs through a SLX 8 boster to all my tv's and as i live in derby but the other day i came to watch tv but no signal so i retuned and still nothing i have 3 other digital tvs so tried them as well but they are the same no signal i have tried everything even turned the areial to sutton coldfiled and its still the same now is it the ariel or what plz help i have pulled all my hair out in despair thanks
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shaun's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
shaun: Has the fuse blown in the power supply to the booster?
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