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 25/09/2023 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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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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Ian's: mapI's Freeview map terrainI's terrain plot wavesI's frequency data I's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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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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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