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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Friday, 2 September 2011
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Dominic Payer7:38 AM
Ivan Dilks
Channel 58 from Waltham will remain on low power until 12th October.Channel 58 is not an HD channel.
HD transmissions are on channel 61. Look for station numbers 50-54.
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kB Aerials Sheffield
7:39 AM
7:39 AM
Ivan Dilks and JB38
if you google the model number 46xf355d it comes up with a TOSHIBA tv that IS full HD
The confusion is that you state its an Hitachi so part of your info seems to be incorrect
So im confused with that
ANY how - Ivan - read my post I have put on several times about too strong a signal (click to the right where it says how many posts ive added - )
Regards
Keith KB Aerials Sheffield 07946481125
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Annabel Cowley: You didn't provide a postcode, but the advise is the same as for everyone else here - the signal is too strong and you need to remove any amplifiers or boosters you have in your system.
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jb388:08 AM
Dominic Payer: I suspect that you are mixing up EPG numbers with actual multiplex transmitter ones, as there is only one MUX (not an EPG number) channel on low power on Waltham and thats Mux Ch29 (ITV3/QVC etc) MUX Ch58 is the HD channel as I receive it on one of my sets.
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jb388:15 AM
kB Aerials Sheffield: Yes I noticed that Ivan had referred to that number as being a Hitachi device, but according to my info there isnt one, so what I mentioned regarding the tuner (not DVB-T2) was referring to Toshiba.
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Judith10:04 AM
Melton Mowbray
A slight problem with ITV1. I'm receiving this channel from Waltham (manually tuned). During daytime hours I get a very good picture. In the evening when switching to ITV1 it takes several minutes for the signal to come through. Will ITV1 improve as days go by?
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Judith's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Darren SR11:33 AM
Lincoln
I'm trying to retune 3 separate TVs to the Waltham digital signal and two have retuned perfectly - no problems at all.
For some reason, the third has retuned OK, except for BBC1 and BBC2, which are just unwatchable. All 3 TVs are fed from the same aerial (with a 3 way splitter/booster) so I'm a bit puzzled as to why 2 TVs are OK and the third isn't picking up the Beeb channels, despite my trying an "install from new" on the third telly.
I see there was some transmitter work going on Waltham, but the alert seems to say it was finsihed on 31st August and it's 2nd Sept today...
Post code LN5 9BX.
Any ideas??
Many thanks!
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Darren's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Mike Dimmick11:35 AM
Jim J: The following variants of ITV1 HD currently exist on Freeview:
Meridian South (Meridian & Anglia)
Granada (Granada, Yorkshire & Border)
Central West (Central)
London (London, Tyne Tees, Wales, West and Westcountry)
London and Tyne Tees are from the early HD services at Crystal Palace and Pontop Pike respectively.
These are also the only services on satellite; the mapping from postcode to services is different; Meridian South and Central West are encrypted, so only available to Sky viewers, not Freesat. Oddly, they are both now on the UK footprint Astra 2D satellite, so I'm not sure why they remain encrypted.
Scotland gets STV HD Central West (i.e. Glasgow).
Information collected by Ray Cathode on DigitalSpy's forums, chart at http://www.bsa.talktalk.n….pdf , accessed via Freeview Technical Information .
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Thanks KB aerials. Might take it to my dad's who is nearer to Sutton Coldfield than we are. Will wait until their switch over and see if it comes back - UK Digital seem to think it will. Will also check out the attenuator thing although not really sure what I am doing LOL
Received this reply from the BBC reception people:
"We cannot answer every query or technical problem, however there are a number of places where you can go for technical information:
If your area is undergoing Digital Switchover, please contact Digital UK with your query since it could be related to transmitter work preparing your area for the switch to digital. You can find them at www.digitaluk.co.uk or by calling 08456 50 50 50.
For advice about your equipment or its configuration please contact your manufacturer."
What is annoying me is that everyone is passing the buck. It was fine before the switchover and you can't speak to someone who knows what they are doing to sort it out.
I wonder if part of the problem is the fact that it is a communal aerial on the flats next door so it has boosters etc... on it and it is also on the top of a very long pole. The trouble is the HA won't let us put our own aerial up so stuck with it.... GRRRR!
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Gary1:04 PM
Leicester
Gary: Thanks for the reply Mike; I had done a reset and manual tune; having Googled the problem it would appear normal to take a long time to populate the EPG, I waited 30mins after switch-on, then opened the program guide and found it fully populated. I suspect I may also have too much signal as you suggest; the Humax receives all channels ok, but my more sensitive Panasonic TV reported full signal strength on all channels when manually tuning, but then I found I had a blank screen on ITV channels with a "no signal" error, but perfect ITV picture through the Humax PVR.
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