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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Tuesday, 27 September 2011
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ian from notts9:30 PM
briantist
did a rescan on 2 boxes a different adresses,
both on waltham !
and picked up 2 signals which came up london !?
about ch23 / ch26 , would this be crystal palace ?
in de55 and ng16 postcode areas
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Thursday, 29 September 2011
ian from notts: There isn't much left on C23 and C26 these days, so it could be analogue signals from Crystal Palace.
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Saturday, 1 October 2011
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MC Brown10:52 AM
Grantham
Since about Wednesday this week all the Waltham frequency channels I was receiving up until then have disappeared. This means I now get a rather intermittent signal from Belmont. Postcode is NG32 1BL
Did anything change this week to cause this blip in channels?
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Sunday, 2 October 2011
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Chris..3:13 PM
If my TV aerial points to Waltham to get all freeview Muxs, Why is it since switchover I,ve been getting all the Sutton Coldfield & Emley Moor Muxs as well when my aerial doesnt point to those, I thought TV aerials especially the toast rack desighns only pick up & recieve what they'yre pointing to.. I live in North Notts..
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Dominic Payer4:40 PM
Chris
Transmission power has increased with switchover. The signals you are receiving are now stronger than they were.
You can leave things as they are or fit an attenuator to reduce the signal strength from Emley Moor and Sutton Coldfield.
If you want to fit an attenuator, leave it until after October 12th when the last mux at Waltham goes to full post-switchover power.
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Tuesday, 4 October 2011
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ian from notts8:55 PM
briantist
the 2 signals i mentioned were digital ! but around the 23/26 frequency mark, not deffinate ! but both freeview boxes named them as london! in both cases ch29 (itv3) from waltham struggled to load ?. been analogue signals i may have blamed atmospherics as a cause ? not happened since tho !
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Friday, 7 October 2011
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blackfish3:13 PM
Possible fix for reception of incorrect signal. Have seen one or two posts about incorrect transmitters being received. I am on Waltham but PVR picked up a low mpx from Nottingham (twenty something) and stored those channels (particularly ITV1). It didn't overwrite them with what would have been stronger signals from Waltham (or maybe it did but put them out of sight - I didn't go looking). Nottingham is just about 180 degs from Waltham where I am. Despite claims to the contrary, all aerials have some gain at 180 degs (opposite direction from where it's pointing). To fix, I cleared all channels from the PVR then did a manual scan on the five Waltham multiplexers. Problem solved.
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Tuesday, 11 October 2011
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Graeme Young2:07 PM
Will there be further channel changes thanks to the "digital dividend"? If so, I would imagine Ch61 and Ch 29 will have to be crammed into the range from Ch39 to Ch60. In my location (Ravenshead, Notts ) Belmont and Emley Moor both are well received and on autotune they fill up the receiver memory before the Waltham channels are reached. I have develpoed a strategy for avoiding this but many in this area are very frustrated by the changes.
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Mike Dimmick2:54 PM
Graeme Young: Yes, BBC A on C61 will have to move, as C61 and C62 are now to be released for 4G mobile in addition to C63-C68 in the original plan. All stations with greater than 1kW ERP output are subject to international co-ordination - although the plan from 2006 shows that Waltham did not need to be co-ordinated with anyone else. Still, the co-ordination required for other sites like Tacolneston, Mendip, Wenvoe (not itself affected directly but it might have to move out of the way of Mendip) means that Waltham is unlikely to make an earlier move than other sites.
C21-C30 are retained for TV broadcasting - they are not going to force the 4.4 million Londoners using Crystal Palace to all buy new aerials (well, unless they're completely mad). The SDN multiplex on C29 is very unlikely to have to move.
You may need to retune the SDN multiplex early tomorrow, as it reaches full power and changes to 8K mode. Changes are supposed to be complete by 6am.
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Wednesday, 12 October 2011
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Andrew Clinton11:19 AM
Having problems receiving Mux PSB3
BBCB from Waltham Transmitter today. Ru doing engineering work?
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