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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Wednesday, 29 May 2013
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Michael 8:43 PM
James Paterson: Yeah they just turn off the BBC channels for a laugh every so often...
Need some more details - make/model of equipment, details of aerial, etc. Have you cleared all of the channels from your equipment before manually retuning?
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jb388:49 PM
Wirral
James Paterson: I carried out a check on Walthams BBC mux Ch49 a few minutes ago and its perfectly OK in the Stamford area, and so although a complete retune should not really have been necessary as a manual tune on Ch49 should have been suffice try a complete auto-tune, of course making sure that you select east Midlands as the area if this request springs up after having carried out the auto tune.
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MikeB9:57 PM
Peterborough
James - I'm also getting signals from Waltham, and my BBC reception has been fine. I just did an automatic retune this morning, with no problem on the PVR. My cheapo digibox seems to like Yorkshire, rather than Midlands (no manual tuning), but Waltham seems to be fine on all muxs.
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Antony Portno10:55 PM
Poor BBC 2 & no BBC 3 or BBC 4 since retune. Reception on all channels was fine before retune. Based 5 miles north of Derby on a hill.
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Antony Portno11:15 PM
Goodness, the three channels have suddenly appeared 2 hours after I did the retune. Is the transmitter resetting perhaps still incomplete?
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KMJ,Derby11:48 PM
Antony Portno: No, it rather suggests that you are able to receive BBC channels from more than one transmitter, possibly Waltham and Sutton Coldfield (and/or Belmont). It is not possible for individual channels within a particular multiplex to have differing signal strengths when they are from the same transmitter. Your receiver , having identified more than one variant of BBC1 must have put the strongest version in position "1" of the channel list, but initially ignored the stronger versions of the other BBC channels having stored identical, but weaker versions in the channel list. Either the weaker signal has now increased in strength to bring it over the threshold for reliable reception, or the tuner has now replaced the set of channels originally stored with the channels that accompany the prefered version of BBC1.
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Sunday, 2 June 2013
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Ian from notts7:48 AM
Antony Portno, KMJ,Derby- Antony did the device ask you to select region after re-tuning? if so check BBC2 and BBC1 have the same frequency?
KMJ,Derby i have noticed some freeview boxes after asking for a region then only alter BBC1 and ITV but store the others on the first come first stored basis, only the odd box tho?
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MICK SYKES8:54 PM
Loughborough
hi there hope you can help,
POST CODE LE12 6SX
we have 7 tv,s connected to one ariel
5 have built in freeview , 2 have seperate freeview boxes ,6 have retuned without problem.the 7th is a grundig seperate freeview box and allthough we have retuned several times it will not pick up any bbc channels, do we need to buy another freeview box or can something be done.
thank you m, sykes
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jb389:02 PM
MICK SYKES: On the assumption that you have all of these devices fed via an 8 way powered splitter then try the Grundig when connected into one of the other outputs, as the problem could simply be caused by the signal level not being quite high enough above that required by the Grundig to resolve a picture on the BBC mux.
What model is the Grundig in question?
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Monday, 3 June 2013
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jb3812:30 AM
MICK SYKES: Meant also to say, that should as I expect you are using a powered splitter then for test purposes temporarily remove 3 or 4 of the other devices aerial connections as this might lift (slightly anyway) the signal level being received by the Grundig, which by the way should really be given a "first time installation" scan before each retuning attempt, box allowing!
Of course should the box have a "manual tuning" facility then go into this menu and enter mux Ch49 (Walthams BBC) into the box, but though hesitate before pressing search or scan as the signal level of the channel entered is usually displayed after having entered the mux channel number, if it is then make a note of the levels seen followed by pressing search / scan.
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