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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Waltham (Leicestershire, England) transmitter._______
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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Monday, 12 November 2012
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jb387:51 AM
Sam: Thanks for the update on equipment used etc although I had also meant to enquire as to the model of TV you have purchased, because if as you say it appears to work fine when tested on the same aerial points that the Freeview boxes don't, then even allowing for the fact that your TV is very likely to be fitted with a somewhat more sensitive tuner hence the fact of it operating OK, but it also suggests that even although you have a booster box in the loft the gain of this device is not really good enough to keep the signal running at a sufficiently high enough level above the Freeview boxes reception cut off threshold.
I do have to say though that your "Argos special" really does come into the category of one getting what's paid for as far as performance is concerned, and so I would prefer not to comment on that device, what I would be interested to know is the level of signal that your TV is receiving, so maybe you could carry out a signal level test whilst on BBC (any programme), ITV1 and also ITV3 (different transmitters involved), or alternatively have a look at your booster box and let me have the model number of it.
The other point I would like you to check is the mux channel numbers seen associated with the these signal strength checks, because "if" indeed its Waltham (96 degrees @ 42 miles) you receive from then the mux numbers should be 61 (BBC) - 54 (ITV) - 29 (SDN) whereas if you receive from Sutton Coldfield (184 degrees @ 19 miles) the mux channels would be 43 - 46 - 42.
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Russ10:56 PM
Lost Freeview HD channels on Sony Bravia, Nov 11th onwards, have tried a re-tune, but no luck. They were on channels 50+ , moved to 101, 102 and now have disappeared. Any suggestions please?
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Tuesday, 13 November 2012
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jb387:23 AM
Russ: You should first of all try carrying out an auto tune with the aerial removed to blank out anything stored in the tuners memory, which when complete which should result in a "no channels found" warning, then after reconnecting the aerial again carry out another normal auto tune.
Its always really best policy to "factory reset" a TV or carry out a "first time installation" with this type of problem, but Sony's are somewhat limited in the facilities offered and its possible that your model does not allow this procedure.
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Sunday, 18 November 2012
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Sam3:54 PM
Uttoxeter
Hi jb38, Thanks again for the info, I have checked the mux channel nos & yes we are receiving from Waltham. Our booster box is SLX8 8 way aerial amplifier. The signal level for BBC 1 is around 52% at this moment 2.30pm I'm sure at other times it will be less as we are receiving a picture of sorts at this time whereas very often there is nothing, couldn't receive anything for ITV 1 and 48% for ITV 3. The Bush box will not let me do a manual retune but the Argos one will, but after that still no change, I followed all the instructions from BBC reception advice for that, unplugging etc. The newest TV is a Toshiba 22DV501B LCD TV DVD Combi. I know what you say about you get what you pay for with the Argos box but it has been working fantastically for the last year until Sept 12. Your help would be really appreciated.Thanks Regards Sam
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jb389:27 PM
Sam: Well with regards to my comments about the box, although I fully appreciate that the box in question may well have been working OK until September, however its when a signal received by the box is somewhat less than perfect that the circuitry deficiencies that nearly all of these lower price range devices suffer from will show up.
The booster / splitter you have is an OK brand, but though its not exactly unknown for these to fail and so you should test that its operating OK by selecting BBC1 (or ITV1) on one of your receiving devices, entering the signal strength check screen and noting the indication seen, then switch off the power supply to the SLX booster / splitter and if its working OK then you should notice a reduction in strength.
Should it be OK then the next thing you could try "if" you know which output from the booster goes where, because if you do then take the coax plug out of the booster port that's used to feed the signal to the device you are using as a signal strength monitor, then reconnect the plug again into the "full" port on the booster, re-checking the signal strength on the monitor TV to observe any changes.
The other point is concerning your location, "if" you are a resident of Church Lane then the majority of aerials seen there appear to be facing towards Sutton Coldfield? and with only a very few facing Waltham, this begging the question of, have you made any local enquiries about reception from households where the aerial is seen to face Waltham? the direction of Waltham if standing directly in front of, and looking at the Dog & Partridge Pub, being to the right and straight down Church Walk towards the East.
That said though, you have to keep in mind that work is still taking place at the Waltham transmitter and with warnings of weak signals etc, and so its not the best of times to be diagnosing potential problems in situations like this albeit the booster check that I mentioned is still valid.
By the way the aerials referred to were seen using Google earth, and its appreciated that this situation might have changed by now as Google E does not have bang up to date images.
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Monday, 19 November 2012
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KR11:24 AM
Bit of progress, but not entirely sure how.
I ordered a cheap variable attenuator off ebay and fitted it to the upstairs TV. This took the signal down to about 50% and I was able to adjust and watch the signal bar go up and down.
Retuned and all was OK, got my missign channels, but one of the other multiplexes was breaking up even on the lowest attenuation.
So I took off the attenuator, back where I was, but rather than the signal going up to 100% again it remained around two thirds.
Now all channels working.
I have no idea what I did, although I did do a full reset as part of the process.
Also retuned downstairs TV and PVR manually and now dont have any duplicate channels, and again pic is fine.
I suspect the engineering works have been to blame for this, but still not entirely sure how or why.
Anyway, thanks all for your assistance, hopefully it will be stable going forward.
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Wednesday, 21 November 2012
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dave1:08 PM
was waltham off the air last night ?
i got home to find no reception at all on either my freeview box OR tv.
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Was working for me ok
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Thursday, 22 November 2012
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steveo3:46 PM
I have no reception whatsoever on my freeview tv, or virgin box .It went off last night 21st about 5.15 and its still dead. Is it the floods?
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Where abouts are you? If the Virgin box is off it cant be anything to do with the transmitter. If both are off I would say its something at your end.
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