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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Thursday, 13 June 2013
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Glen3:02 PM
Since you changed the signal strength to help with 4g I now don't have BBC channels. If it stays like this I will cancel my TV license as it is only for BBC anyway. It worked perfectly before. Or you could supply me with a new aerial
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Michael5:25 PM
Glen: Read 29th May 2013 retunes for Oxfordshire and East Midlands | 4G-at-800 | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice - it will stay that way until you retune your Freeview equipment.
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Darren Cotton8:45 PM
Last couple of days we have noticed that we are unable to pick up some of the standard Def ITV, channel 4 & 5. We run a media centre and we have never had an issue with signage even though the aerial is in the loft space.
Wondering if its the effect of 4G roll out in the Leicester area?
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jb389:01 PM
Darren Cotton: Although it should never be taken as a foregone conclusion that 4G would have any effect on reception, that is unless living within a hundred yards or so from the mast, but though if any of Waltham's channels were going to be affected then it would be in the order of: HD (Ch58) / COM6 (Ch57) / COM5 (Ch56) and to a lesser extent PSB2 (Ch54)
If though reception was from Leicester's PSB only relay, then 4G is unlikely to have any effect unless being next door to the mast.
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Friday, 14 June 2013
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Darren Cotton7:57 AM
jb38: thanks for coming back to me. Its seems really odd that something is effecting both our media centres on the same channels and but PCs use a different makes of tuner.
Seems to be affecting ITV1, ITV2, ITV1+1, More4, E4.
Channel 5 seems to be back today though.
The signal is spit 3 ways but does go via a booster to clear up the single; we may need to look a 4way booster to see if that helps!
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jb385:07 PM
Darren Cotton: As far as the problem affecting both of your media centres is concerned my reply was purely with reference to your query regarding 4G, however I will say that although nothing has been posted on the TX fault reporting site nor is any engineering work taking place at Waltham as far as Freeview transmissions are concerned, albeit it is / was for other services, but though on having checked out some PVR recordings made from Waltham over the last week and in particular one involving daily recordings made on ITV1/PSB2 revealed that glitches of the more severe variety have indeed occurred on quite a number of occasions.
That said, an aspect of these glitches I did find rather interesting was the timing factor involved, insomuch that the glitching always seemed to clear up about 20 seconds or so prior to an advert break, staying that way during the adverts before returning to the previous state when they were over, adverts being sacrosanct as far as NOT giving anyone connected to those who may be paying for same any cause for complaint.
This may of course have been purely coincidental, but without putting too fine a point on it I doubt if coincidence was involved.
As far as a four way booster is concerned, if your media devices tuners can indicate signal quality then the booster will always improve things so long as the signal quality when observed beforehand is not seen diving to zero.
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CC405:47 PM
I have been using Waltham for Freeview through Media Centre 7 with no issues until recently, now Channel 5, ITV1,Channel 4+1, ITV2 and various others get found successfully and tuned in but have a black screen and no sound when viewed. Sometimes if you pick another channel and then go back it comes up, like it isn't synching properly to the signal. A retune does nothing, exactly same issue, I have 2 different types of tuners (1 SD, 1HD) all reacting the same. It was so stable until this change, such a shame.
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V Ferris11:09 PM
Friday about 1945 Ch4 News started to disintegrate then could'nt get ITV channels. I retuned using the Waltham numbers given last week by Humax and got programmes again. Should I try tuning to Sutton Coldfield if this week ahead is going to be bad?
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Saturday, 15 June 2013
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jb389:20 AM
CC40: Nothing has changed recently as far as the ITV1 mux channel is concerned, but as far as your problem is concerned I can say that what you have described is exactly the main symptom experienced by many with older equipment when first trying to tune in a transmitter channel with a negative offset on its TX frequency, i.e: it transmitting at slightly under the exact frequency associated with the channel number as indeed applies in the case of Waltham's PSB2 / TV1 mux, something which although having no effect on the majority of tuners used by a wide range of equipment can however cause problems on equipment using tuners with a somewhat limited AFC (auto-frequency control) range that resists being pulled downwards past a certain point, this being why the action of notching up a channel then back down again (or vice-versa) can on occasions "catch" the frequency.
Another factor that had an effect on how often a person might experience this problem was connected with the signal strength being received, it being slightly worse on weaker signals, and so I was just wondering what kind of signal strength your Media Centre is operating with? as I feel that the problem you are now experiencing is as a direct result of the action of retuning having exposed a deficiency in the tuners AFC range, this possibly only being revealed now by the signal level received at this present time being at a slightly different level to that applying when you had first tuned it into the station.
I am unaware as to the exact model of tuner used in your Media Centre, but can you recall ever having received messages regarding software up dates? and if so did you carry them out?
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CC4010:27 AM
Hi jb38, many thanks for replying. I have put my aerial connection into my sony digital tv and it shows 100% signal. I also have all the latest drivers for the tuners and media centre. If I look inside media centre for as an example channel5, it gives 100% signal quality on frequency 737.833MHz (that's what I'm tuned to), and also offers 71% quality on 738MHz and 60% quality on 738.167 MHz. The problem channels show perfectly when using the sony digital TV's inbuilt tuner, but when using the media centre tuners they are failing. I use a PCTV 290e with the latest drivers for DVB-T & T2.
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