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 15/04/2024 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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Saturday, 27 August 2011
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Mike Dimmick4:39 PM
John (Derby): I don't think any specific order has been followed before. If any care is being taken, it will be at programme junctions, although at previous switchovers it appears that the BBC cares, for BBC One, but ITV and C4 don't. You'll probably see BBC One switch off at 00:35 after Weatherview, swiftly followed by the others, though they could stick it out to 1am. C5 goes to 'Super Casino' at 00:50.
Channel 5 analogue doesn't actually *need* to go off, with C35 being released for now, so they could pull the plug on that at any time.
The SDN multiplex probably won't go off at all, staying on the same transmitting aerial as before. All other services are likely to be interrupted.
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Mike Dimmick4:48 PM
john: If you're having to rescan every time you want to watch a channel, the first thing to do is make sure the box has a 'clean' copy. Make sure you do a first-time installation/full retune/full reset/default setting (different manufacturers call it different things) rather than just 'Add Channels' or 'Automatic Scan'.
If that doesn't correct the problem, check that your box or TV isn't on the list of equipment known to have problems with a large Network Information Table - http://www.digitaluk.co.u…tnit .
Some boxes have this problem if they can't handle a mixture of 2K mode (used before DSO) and 8K mode (used after DSO). From next week's second stage, four of five SD multiplexes will use 8K mode, although SDN will stay in 2K mode until 12 October. (The HD multiplex uses a different mode altogether, but non-HD boxes won't even recognize that it carries digital TV signals.)
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Monday, 29 August 2011
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Dee Murphy1:02 PM
Leicester
When will I get a decent signal strength? Up to switchover it was fine but now it's gone to pot. I live in the East Midlands so I get East Mids BBC; do I get a choice of transmitter? How do I know which transmitter to use? Do I have to get a man in to fiddle with the aerial and why should I have to pay for it?
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B.Taylor3:28 PM
Ilkeston
Dee Murphy: Hi i live in Ilkeston and have the same problem, wait until the switchover has finished then retune.
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Wednesday, 31 August 2011
WALTHAM transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:52 today to 05:52 today [BBC]
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WALTHAM transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:52 today to 05:52 today [BBC]
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Judith10:41 AM
Melton Mowbray
My problem getting Belmont instead of Waltham has persisted after the 31st August switchover despite being very close to the Waltham Transmitter.
The irony is the dvd recorder connected to the TV has no difficulty in retuning automatically to East Midlands, so why is the TV being awkward? I have manually retuned the TV to 61(BBC) and 54(ITV)to get Waltham for these channels - I shall just have to hope that I don't have to retune again!
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KMJ,Derby11:48 AM
Judith: When scanning, the tuner in the TV stores the first set of channels found (ie Belmont on C22) in the "normal" positions in the channel list, then if any variations are found later in the scan these are stored in the 800s of the channel list. The dvd recorder either doesn't see the Belmont signal, or stores the strongest signal in the normal positions and displaces the weaker variants to the 800s. Belmont is only 15 degrees off beam for your Waltham aerial so it is to be expected that reception is possible from both transmitters. Unfortunately you will need to retune on 12th October 2011 when SDN at Waltham changes to 8k mode, along with a power increase.
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