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, 19 June 2013
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John10:13 PM
Hi Steve,
I turned the house upside down to find my WinTV cds! To update to 7.2 Hauppauge say you need a WinTV 6 or 7 cd. I tried 5.5 - wouldn't update. Tried another three or so cds - all apparently too old. Then I found 'WinTV - WinTV-Nova series; WinTV-HDR series; myTV.t' version 4.6. It worked...
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DarrenG10:18 PM
Loughborough
John:
What frequency has WinTV locked on to for PSB2?
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Steve Hatton10:20 PM
Nottingham
Just downloaded Progdvb, all channels are working correctly. Hmmm something has changed at the transmitter side which mce isn't happy with.
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Steve Hatton10:22 PM
Nottingham
738000 is what progdvb has locked on to for Channel 5 which is the channel causing my most problems 90% it doesn't work in mce just a black screen and no audio yet is working perfectly in progdvb
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DarrenG10:30 PM
Loughborough
Steve H:
That was the conclusion that I, somewhat reluctantly, was coming to.
Well done for making progress.
I had used ScanChannelsBDA_UK.exe to check my reception on MCE.
So, not Win or drivers but something specific to MCE then...
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Steve Hatton10:30 PM
Nottingham
ok maybe nothing but ive noticed that the channels which are causing programs are running at 704x576 and these are all on the one mux and all the other channels which work are running 720x576 ??
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DarrenG11:04 PM
Loughborough
Steve H:
I think that this is normal. I found a website once that showed all the sizes for all the channels.
Well, I have finally got access to the PC and tried ProgDVB and PSB2 works for me too.
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DarrenG11:14 PM
Loughborough
Can't help but wonder if the 'TV setup date for your region' is downloaded in the background, as in the background scan.
I had disabled the backgroud scan in the past but it hasn't given me any trouble for some time so haven't bothered recently.
Might try disconnecting from internet and restoring previously working image. At least I have an SSD so it is quick to switch images.
This might just give another clue but not a solution.
Looks like we need a fix from Microsoft though...
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Thursday, 20 June 2013
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stef12:03 PM
Televisions in more than 800,000 East Midlands homes may have been affected by work to upgrade transmitters.
The work is being done to improve the 4G mobile phone service.
from BBC News - Waltham transmitter work prompts TV retune alert
so is 4g being broadcast or not only if it is could this be the reason wmc are having trouble
i rang at800 | 4G Interference | 4G Filters | Let's be clear at 800 Mhz and they said they have no 4g on waltham
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Michael12:44 PM
stef: Are you being serious? You're asking if 4G is in operation, having just rang the company that knows where 4G is switched on and being told there is no 4G?
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