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.
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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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Tuesday, 16 August 2011
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Mike Dimmick3:22 PM
obsidian eclipse: Off at shortly after midnight tonight, i.e. the early hours of the 17th, and potentially off and on periodically until 6am. Relays may take longer, see Digital UK - Relay transmitter switching times for details.
Most likely is that, because ITV1 analogue is replacing BBC Two analogue at all relays (BBC Two switches off), it will happen at an ITV1 programme junction. At sites where no analogue channel swap was required (e.g. Sandy Heath), BBC Two was turned off at the end of the final programme scheduled.
BBC Two has Chilean Miners until 00:20, then TOWN until 01:20. ITV1 has The Grudge until 00:20 then 'The Zone' (QVC) through to 02:25, so the logical cut-over point would be 00:20, though don't rule out 01:20.
After that, Mux 1 could go at any point.
Belmont DSO 2 is also tonight, and there is also a retune at Tacolneston to release C61 (which Waltham BBC A will use), so there may need to be some co-ordination between the sites, as Tacolneston is taking frequencies that Belmont currently uses.
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Ziggy: Yes, trees can be a problem: you may have to mount the aerial on a long pole to overcome them.
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obsidian eclipse6:40 PM
Thanks mike.. itv news didn't mention anything about analogue itv moving, from the information on this site it looked as though it was going along with bbc 2 given bbca takes its slot. (Until of course analogue completely goes).
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Wednesday, 17 August 2011
WALTHAM transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 00:31 today [BBC]
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WALTHAM transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 00:31 today [BBC]
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WALTHAM transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 00:31 today to 05:39 today [BBC]
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WALTHAM transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 00:31 today to 05:39 today [BBC]
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L. Cox7:03 AM
I have retuned easily and successfully except I am receiving Look North on local BBC news instead of East Midland I can't find channel number to manually retune please can you help?
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Dave Holyoak8:30 AM
I am no longer able to RX PSB1 Ch1 from Waltham as or 08:30 1/08/11. I have retuned DV recorder and my TV.
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Ziggy8:59 AM
Looks like the problem was not the trees but the transmitter changes as I have retuned this morning and now have 100 channels.
Many thanks for your help.
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