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 |
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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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Wednesday, 28 November 2012
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Robert Fairbrother7:53 PM
28th November 2012 19:50
Cannot get any BBC channels from Waltham. This is about the fourth time in the last month. What is going on? The information on this site really ought to be more specific about what time the transmitter is going to be offline.
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Robert Fairbrother: Indeed. Even better, the issue "really ought" not to happen in the first place.
This is the nature of engineering work of any nature; it is usually impractical to give a timetable of the prospective turning of every screw. One assumes that the periods of low power and outages are kept to a minimum.
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Thursday, 29 November 2012
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jb3812:07 AM
Robert Fairbrother: You have to look at it from the other point of view, insomuch that the transmitter concerned is not always necessarily actually off line as such, but has only been reduced in power to the extent that the signal received by your TV or box has dropped to just under the reception threshold for the equipment you are using.
Its really quite impossible for engineers to forecast exactly when a situation such as described will occur, as dependant on what task is being carried out it might involve temporarily working close to either a high voltage or radiation source whereby a reduction in power for a few minutes might prove to be necessary in the interests of safety.
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Friday, 30 November 2012
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John Sands10:46 PM
Here in Carlton, Nottingham, the stations on PSB1 have been unwatchable for several extended periods this week (Wednesday evening and tonight) - these are all normally coming through at 100%, but have been reduced to around 80-85% with continual break up. This surely indicates more than "a reduction in power for a few minutes [...] in the interests of safety" and also represents pretty poor service.
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Saturday, 1 December 2012
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John Sands1:05 PM
Precisely what is the nature of the current engineering works and when exactly will they be completed? The information "Over the next week Waltham main transmitter: TV (digital) Liable to interruption" doesn't have a date attached to it so it is impossible to know how many forthcoming days it refers to! After just re-tuning to see if that improved the situation, I now have 30 stations (including radio) as opposed to the usual plethora. This would not be a bad thing in itself, but the BBC stations are still unwatchable and have gone down to arounbd 75-80% quality with 71% strength. All I know is that everything worked perfectly well on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday of this week and that on Wednesday and since yesterday it has gone belly-up. Grrr ...
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Sunday, 2 December 2012
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John Sands1:00 PM
Nottingham
Today (Sunday) all the channels on PSB2 clearly feel that they are being left out of the party and have now emulated those on PSB1, dropping in both signal strength and quality to the point of continual break-up. Excellent!
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John's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Sam1:46 PM
Uttoxeter
Hi jb, thanks for the suggestions. We are one of the few receiving from Waltham in our area. We now know our set top boxes work, someone has tested them in another area for us. This last week, (since the floods - no connection I'm sure) we have lost signals to all TV's and can only watch one thro sky. Info above says signal liable to interuption this week! However we have been trying different things to try and solve our problem and have taken the newest TV into the loft and connected it direct to the main aerial without using the amp box and it works on most channels perfectly, but some, think 57 scrambled, so now we are not sure if our amp box is the problem. Think we may try just an 8 way splitter box for all the aerials instead of a booster, what do you think? Or if not what brand of booster would you recommend? As you say it is obviously difficult to diagnose the problem when Waltham are still doing work, but others don't seem to be experiencing our problems so it surely must be our equipment? We are really getting fed up with not being able to watch any TV in other rooms. If the splitter or new box doesn't work then I suppose we will have to call on an aerial chap, but would like to avoid that cost if at all possible. Thanks Regards Sam
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Sam's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
I don't know why anyone RELIES on Terrestrial anymore. If you look at it the wrong way it can have a hissy fit.
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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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jb388:19 PM
Sam: Provided that you checked the reception conditions before (or within 30 minutes) of carrying out your test with the TV in the loft, this mentioned just in case Waltham was magically OK on that day (unlikely though!), then your test was perfectly valid and is inclined to indicate that there is a problem with your installation.
As you will probably already know, your test was in effect a superior way of checking the picture quality / signal level with not only the booster being by-passed but also the cabling, the problem now is that by eliminating the booster and cabling at the same time its doesn't reveal where the deficiency is, and so admittedly an inconvenience, but you should still try either by-passing the booster whilst the reception is poor, or alternatively just try switching the SLX's mains supply off to note if anything changes, which of course it should by the picture breaking up worse than it was before if not vanishing altogether, although in the interests of accuracy the TV should be left on its signal check screen whilst conducting these type of tests as variations in levels are much easier to see, plus of course a digital picture does not change quality in sympathy to signal level changes, unless the said changes cause the level to be hovering near to the cut off threshold then a variety of problems is liable be experienced.
This is a link for a Konig brand 8 way variable booster, as I would not advise you to use anything other than a powered booster unless a person resides in a really strong signal area, although even at that I still have reservations.
8 Way TV Aerial Booster Amplifier Digital Freeview | eBay
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jb389:18 PM
Ian: Well it does have to be admitted that in your particular location Waltham (@ 31 miles) in not predicated as being the station for reliable coverage of your area, with a mixture of variable and poor (greatest percentage) being indicated for all four muxes BBC / ITV / HD / SDN, and with the two commercial stations (ArqA / ArqB) indicated as not receivable at any level, albeit that they still might be in a fashion.
Sutton Coldfield (@ 19 miles) is the station indicated as covering your area, however I will agree that although DTT can in many areas be excellent with only the very odd glitch now and then, but though its an unfortunate fact that there are lots of areas where DTT reception is not really acceptable to anyone that's even remotely a tad fussy, and so Freesat is really the only option for 99.9% reliability. (except of course during a thundery downpour!)
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