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?
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| 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, 20 June 2013
stef: Some of the 4G services will use the 800MHz frequencies which are the highest of those used for TV.
The retune for Waltham a few weeks ago formed part of the national clearance of the 800MHz band. The signal for BBC standard definition services moved to a lower frequency. This change did not involve the 4G services coming on air at the same time - it was simply to clear for use soon.
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stef1:45 PM
trust me these guys (https://at800.tv/) didnt have a clue what was on where and had to tripple check if waltham was on or not
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stef: at800 is responsible for investigating interference to Freeview signals and taking steps to remove it. It is not responsible for the clearance of the 800MHz signals, which is what happened at Waltham a few weeks ago.
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John4:14 PM
Hi darrenG,
The wife just had to go out spend money today :-)
WinTV reports 738.0 freq 8500 SID
MCE reports 730.0(71% quality) or 737.833(100% quality), locator 9018:8200:8500.
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John5:35 PM
I have rescanned WMC with the network connections disconnected. No change.
We keep talking about May 29th, yet I recorded the new Poirot on ITV1 Central June 9th with no bother at all. Our problems really started a week after that when I tried to record the new Miss Marple (16 June). From a 2 hour slot (over adverts) WMC recorded about 50 Minutes!
After rescanning my other machine I'm getting 'Service is unavailable - There is currently no TV signal detected for this channel..... may be temporarily off the air. Try again later' where ITV1 should be...
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Dominic Payer7:31 PM
Windows Media Center
I tune to Waltham.
WMC setup data seems to be for everything you might be able to receive at your postcode: cable, satellite and terrestrial. Details are in C:ProgramDataMicrosofteHomelogsFirstRun.log. This opens in Notepad by default.
I can confirm that Hauppauge WinTV and VLC Player can play the PSB2 transmissions.
For me, WMC can play, intermittently, all PSB2 channels except Channel 5. Changing channel may result in inability to play when I switch back. I do not see "Tuner not found" messages: the channels appear to be detected but not displayed.
As far as I can tell, the problem is specific to WMC and PSB2 at Waltham. There do not appear to be reports of any other transmitters with a similar problem or any general problem with WMC.
I have raised a query with Digital UK. Their initial response was effectively "Microsoft's problem". That may be part of it, but clearly there has been some unannounced detail change in the PSB2 signal from Waltham. I wait to see what their response to my follow-up will be.
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John7:57 PM
I think we're all moving to the conclusion that it is a WMC (Microsoft) problem, Dominic.
I've tried everything I can think of..
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stef8:48 PM
problem is specific to WMC and PSB2 - i would agree
I have searched the net and found people reporting the simmiler issues since 2011 in canada, america and the rest of the UK when frequancies have been changed - no one talked about a fix !only thing to do was change to mediaportal
Not able to tune into RF51 (OMNI2 Toronto) in Windows Media Center - Canadian TV, Computing and Home Theatre Forums
to me it seems an issue between ch3 and ch5 somtimes they work somtimes they dont - sadly i cant see us finding a fix (DE59TN)
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John Pilkington10:35 PM
Here is a link to a post I made shortly after the Waltham retune of 29 May. Several channels in PSB2 now appear to ffmpeg to have multiple video streams. Before the retune these extra streams were classed as data, as they still are in PSB1. Relabelling of the streams has not affected replay of my recordings but did break a script I used to edit them.
I have had no reports of similar changes from other transmitters.
UK DVB-T Channels 4, 5; multiple video streams | MythTV | Users
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