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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Saturday, 2 February 2013
I live in the LE10 area and my reception is strong. Always has been. He lives in the LE9 area his reception was fine before and after switch over then suddenly for about 10 days reception on some stations was bad, then without doing anything its fine again. Lot's of people have reported the same thing from Walthem. Digital just isn't as reliable as the old analogue was, you only have to read this forum to see that.
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jb3811:58 PM
Ian: Of course it isn't! as analogue reception can work right down to near zero signal level when the picture can barely be picked out from the background speckles, whereas with digital reception a picture can "only" resolved from between two set levels, namely the lower and upper thresholds, the problem being that under the lower as well as over the upper results in exactly the same symptoms and why set procedures have to be used to determine which applies.
The DUK's reception predictor in common with anything associated with RF signal prediction is never guaranteed to be 100% accurate as RF signals in the frequencies used by Freeview etc cannot ever be accurately predicted, but when transmitter coverage maps do not indicate that the signal being radiated from a certain transmitter covers an area then any reports of bad reception from the said area has to be associated with the fact of it not officially being covered, and as such anything that might be received could be classed as being purely through good fortune.
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Sunday, 3 February 2013
Another reason satellite is far better
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Keith Tyler5:07 PM
Leicester
Aerial is positioned on chimney of bungalow. We experience severe signal disruption most days. When retuning topbox signal strength never exceeds 90%. Can you please advise?
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Keith Tyler: The signal strength is perfectly healthy.
If this is a variable signal quality issue, then I would suggest that the most likely cause is traffic on the motorway which is crossing the signal path. Multiple lanes means more traffic at any given time which might increase the potential over a single carriageway.
Might traffic tie in with when you experience poor reception? How was it on Christmas Day when, presumably, there wouldn't have been many large vehicles (typically HGVs) about?
Clearly in situations where you have objects crossing the signal path then getting the aerial higher might stand you in better stead to see over them, or at least mitigate the degree to which they may degrade the signal. A bungalow is therefore not as best placed as a house in this respect.
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Keith Tyler: If you haven't already done so,c check that your receiver is tuned to Waltham for all channels and not Sutton Coldfield or Belmont, although if it were so for BBC One or ITV then you know about it because you would get West Midlands or Yorkshire/Lincs programming instead of East Midlands.
Bring up the signal strength screen on each of the following and see whether it is tuned to the UHF/RF channel of Waltham:
BBC One = C61 (Sutton Coldfield=C43, Belmont=C22)
ITV = C54 (Sutton Coldfield=C46, Belmont=C25)
BBC One HD = C58 (Sutton Coldfield=C40, Belmont=C28)
ITV3 = C29 (Sutton Coldfield=C42, Belmont=C30)
Pick TV=C56 (Sutton Coldfield=C45, Belmont=C53)
Film4 = C57 (Sutton Coldfield=C39, Belmont=C60)
For example, BBC One it should be tuned to C61 and not 43 or 22.
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jb387:47 PM
Ian: Exactly!! as although it cannot be denied that lots of people find Freeview to be perfectly OK for their requirements and especially those who have TV's or boxes fitted in a number of rooms, as it simply involves using an aerial splitter or distribution amp and running a single coax to each of the remote locations, whereas with Freesat or Sky each location requires its own individual feed from the dish, or x 2 to each location if a PVR is involved.
But though convenient as Freeview might be it still it doesn't take away from the fact that reception via terrestrial digital is by its very nature not near so robust as when received via a satellite system where the signal arrives from above, and as such is for 99% of the time impervious to being interfered with, this unlike in the case of Freeview reception where the signal from the mast frequently experiences obstructions of various sorts along the way then when it arrives at the receiver it (the receiver) has to battle with such things as atmospheric induced (or otherwise) co-channel interference etc as well as a whole host or other types of problems that are too numerous to mention, many of them not being of a rectifiable nature.
The problem with the aforementioned being that the situation will never improve, and indeed could get worse for some as channels are squeezed into a smaller area for the purpose of allowing the bands that they were operating in to be sold off for mobile phone use, something I intensely disagree with.
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It's all been a total cop out in my opinion.
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Wednesday, 20 February 2013
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Paul1:47 PM
I'm struggling to get ITV3 and 5* and 5USA from Waltham, so I presume I have a problem with Channel 29. I receive all of the other channels ok. I have tried a signal booster to no avail. Any other suggestions?
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Paul: Without a clue as to where you are, we are guessing. So I'll offer a guess: If you live in the Sutton-in-Ashfield/Clay Cross area you may find that Chesterfield transmitter is an issue as it is co-channel for on C29, but not co-channel on others.
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