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 25/09/2023 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 |
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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, 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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Mike Dimmick2:38 PM
Andrew Clinton: The only engineering work was this morning, bringing the SDN multiplex up to full power and on the main broadcast antenna. This shouldn't have had any effect on reception of HD channels, unless you were close to having too much signal before, and the additional power on the SDN multiplex has now pushed it over the edge.
See Freeview signals: too much of a good thing is bad for you | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice for more.
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Don't throw away your old 2K mode digital box (Nokia etc. ITV/ONLINE DIGITAL). It may have 2 SCART sockets and an RF modulator which will feed extension TVs in other rooms. Feed SCART leads from new box through old box (which must be switched fully on) to main TV, and connect low loss UHF coaxial cable extension leads from old box to extension TVs tuned to correct frequency of old box analogue output, with a splitter if necessary. Also the old box may feed a stereo amplifier if fitted with phono audio output sockets, which many new boxes don't have.
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Thursday, 13 October 2011
I'm having problems with Com5 ARQA from Waltham over the past 2 days.
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Ian's: mapI's Freeview map terrainI's terrain plot wavesI's frequency data I's Freeview Detailed Coverage
ROGER AUSTIN: I can't think of a box where the incoming SCART signal is output as an RF signal, the RF is generated from the output of the frame generator system in the decoder.
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ian from notts: There was good Inversion conditions so that is probably the reason. Once switchover is complete, the network should operate correctly even when there are "atmospherics".
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Ian: Have you checked everything on Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice ?
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Yes nothing has changed from before when everything was fine. Not checked it today as I have the TV and sky to myself untill later tonight.
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Ian's: mapI's Freeview map terrainI's terrain plot wavesI's frequency data I's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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