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 - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 26 Nov 12:25 until 26 Nov 12:27. . 
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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, 3 December 2011
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jb386:03 AM
Robert: A booster will have no effect whatsoever on low volume and I feel that you are looking in the wrong direction for the cause of your problem, because knowing these areas I can say that Waltham comes in with a very good signal on your side of Spalding, as indeed does Belmont and to a lesser degree Sandy.
It would be easier to offer advice if you gave some info on your set up, such as what you are using to receive Freeview as well as where your aerial is located.
I will point out though that unless a TV has an area selector facility to store only channels appropriate to the viewers location then you will nearly always have to manually tune in Waltham, as Belmont or Sandy will take up the low EPG numbers pushing Waltham's main channels into the 800 ranges.
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jb389:22 AM
Robert: Just to clarify, latter comments made are with reference to your original posting.
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Monday, 12 December 2011
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Alec Bell10:32 PM
Spalding
hi im still periodically loosing sound on channel 56 from the Waltham transmitter it only seems to happen at night after about 9 pm and it only happens occasionally! this i might add is afetr i have moved house! my new post code is PE113XZ any bright ideas on how to solve it as its becoming really annoying!
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Wednesday, 14 December 2011
Alec Bell: please see Freeview intermittent interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice for help with that.
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Saturday, 14 January 2012
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Mrs W Lovell5:49 PM
Grantham
I have a Linsar LPVR160 Digital TV recorder connected to Samsung digital TV. Ever since the changeover in August the Linsar does not record very well on ITV1, channel 4, channel 5 (BBC1 & 2 are perfect). The pictures jump and miss out small sections, but I can't understand why! It worked perfectly before the switchover in August. I have logged in all the channels manually (not automatically) as I understand the reception is better from the Waltham transmitter by doing it this way! I notice under frequency C54 that there is a 'minus' sign immediately after the number (ie C54-) and I was told this means that there are works taking place on this transmitter. Is this true and could this be why the recordings are so bad?
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jb388:10 PM
Mrs W Lovell: That indication simply means that there is a negative off set on the channel frequency and not that there is any work going on, and the problem you have is quite common on devices such as yours that's based on Vestel brand chassis, and which are used by about a couple of dozen other brand names, like Hitachi, Sharp, Philips, Digihome etc to name but a few.
This negative offset being used on certain channels in various stations has been the cause of numerous complaints regarding odd problems occurring, like a channel not coming on when selected, or when it does it glitches for no apparent reason, or recordings jumping or freezing when being played.
Unfortunately there isn't much you can do about it, as although Vestel published over air software downloads in an attempt to cure the problem they were in many cases of somewhat limited success, and although the updates can still be obtained via a web site, its very complex to arrange as a laptop has to be connected into the PVR etc.
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jb388:30 PM
Mrs W Lovell: Just a little addition, I see you are located in Grantham and in many parts of it Belmont is received with a very good signal, and so you could try manually tuning in Belmonts ITV1 Mux on Ch25 as it doesn't have a negative offset.
Of course your aerial will not be pointing in that direction, but many have reported they can still receive it because of its high signal level received, the only downside of this action being that you would not get Central news.
By the way you could not use Belmont to replace Waltham, as Belmont's SDN (ITV3 etc) has a negative offset on it, the only way of getting around that being to use Waltham's SDN.
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Tuesday, 17 January 2012
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Mrs W Lovell12:31 PM
Grantham
Just wanted to say thanks for the helpful comments received regarding my query. Will look at all the options then make a decision.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Wendy Lovell
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Thursday, 19 January 2012
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Chris Roads3:23 PM
Nottingham
I am experiencing problems with receiving all channels except channel 10 ITV3. I have had these problems all day today 19th January and over the last few days in the evenings. Info on line indicates there are suppose to be problems with the Waltham transmitter between 00.01 and 06.00 hrs on the 19th and 20th Jan. and that TV services will be disrupted. There are the same problems with our next door neighbor, how long will we have to put up with these problems? I have a roof aerial and have had no previous problems.
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KMJ,Derby10:35 PM
Chris Roads: The engineering work advertised for the Waltham transmitter is only supposed to affect the SDN and HD muxes. As you say you are receiving ITV3 (carried on SDN) with good reception I wonder whether or not your receiver is tuned to the correct frequencies for Waltham on the other muxes. The Waltham signal on C29 for SDN is the first transmission of that mux found when scanning for channels so it would duly be stored as required. However the other muxes are found at the end of the scan, with options from Nottingham/Kimberley, Sutton Coldfield, Belmont and possibly Emley Moor available at your location. When BBC1 is selected check the frequency/UHF channel that is being received. If it is Waltham it should show C61, if it shows C27 it has stored the signal from Kimberley instead of Waltham. The other options for BBC1 would also show a different local news region- Belmont (C22) or Sutton Coldfield (C43). If this is found to be the case manual tuning of the Waltham frequencies is recommended after first clearing the channel list by doing a factory reset or delete all channels.
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