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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Friday, 7 June 2013
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Martin10:50 PM
Did another retune earlier and all was great.
About 20 minutes ago, BBC1 disappeared yet again.
Just came back again - but for how long?
I'm now wondering if there is any 4G at800 work going on - I think there was some mast work a couple of days ago locally direct in line to Waltham
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Saturday, 8 June 2013
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Ian from notts7:49 AM
Nottingham
Peter Ball- Are there any stations stored in the channel 800 numbers? If you have saved ch49 the BBC's should be there somewhere
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With respect the above coverage map is c*rap especially between Leicester and Nuneaton where if it weren't for good old Sutton Coldfield we'd be in the ... mire ... it was very poor (from Waltham), indeed the signal was very poor in Leicester and needed a relay/booster, when we had analogue but now its vile or simply not there in a lump of South Leicstershire . Please tell BBC and ITV etc not to tell porkies. However you didn't print my last submission so you probably wont print this :-((
Rog.
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KMJ,Derby10:30 PM
Rog: With existing masts at Emley Moor, Belmont, Sutton Coldfield, Sandy Heath and Tacolneston the original intention was to locate a transmitter to cover the parts left unserved or poorly served by these masts. Hence Waltham-on-the-Wolds was chosen as the site best suited for that purpose. Then along came the creation of the East Midlands region - unfortunately there were parts of Leicester, Northern parts of Derby and West Nottingham better served by Sutton Coldfield, whilst North Notts is served by Belmont. I recall the IBA pointing out that an area is considered to be "served" if it was covered by a reliable TV signal, irrespective of which regional sevice was carried by the transmitter. There have been a number of regional correction relays built however to serve parts of East Anglia, North Wales and North Derby!
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Sunday, 9 June 2013
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Ms P Fitzpatrick8:41 PM
Our rooftop aerial points towards Witham transmitter
And has worked well, getting all usual channels until about two weeks ago. There are three digi boxes fed from aerial.
Present signal gives about six channels, all corrupted
Auto/manual tuning leaves boxes 'database empty'
Also, new flat screen tele with FV shows same problem
Have tried everything....? Can U help?
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Monday, 10 June 2013
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John Griffith5:03 PM
We are in Newark with an aerial pointing at Waltham. Signal is good. Auto search on our Panasonic TV loads the East Midlands stations as expected, but auto search on our Humax PVR picks up the Belmont signals first (even though the signal is weak) and loads these for BBC & ITV. If you have this problem, do a manual search on channels 29,49,54,56,57 & 58 following a default reset. It is a bit tedious, but works!
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Dominic Payer11:27 PM
Nottingham
Ms P Fitzpatrick: Get the cable and connections to your aerial checked.
If water has entered the junction box at the aerial the connections will corrode and the signal passed from the aerial to the cable will become weak or non-existent.
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Tuesday, 11 June 2013
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Clive Johnson10:43 AM
Leicester
Last nighht, Monday, 10TH. JUNE, I LOST ALL "INDEPENDENT" CHANNELS FROM WALTHAM-ON-THE-WOLDS - ITV1, Channel 4, Yesterday etc. BBC channels were fine. I had previously done the required retune for BBC and everything was functioning normally.
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Clive Johnson7:18 PM
Leicester
The missing channels reappeared during the afternoon of Tuesday 11 June. This was not as a result of any action I took.
Clive Johnson
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