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 22/04/2024 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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Sunday, 2 December 2012
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John Sands1:00 PM
Nottingham
Today (Sunday) all the channels on PSB2 clearly feel that they are being left out of the party and have now emulated those on PSB1, dropping in both signal strength and quality to the point of continual break-up. Excellent!
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Sam1:46 PM
Uttoxeter
Hi jb, thanks for the suggestions. We are one of the few receiving from Waltham in our area. We now know our set top boxes work, someone has tested them in another area for us. This last week, (since the floods - no connection I'm sure) we have lost signals to all TV's and can only watch one thro sky. Info above says signal liable to interuption this week! However we have been trying different things to try and solve our problem and have taken the newest TV into the loft and connected it direct to the main aerial without using the amp box and it works on most channels perfectly, but some, think 57 scrambled, so now we are not sure if our amp box is the problem. Think we may try just an 8 way splitter box for all the aerials instead of a booster, what do you think? Or if not what brand of booster would you recommend? As you say it is obviously difficult to diagnose the problem when Waltham are still doing work, but others don't seem to be experiencing our problems so it surely must be our equipment? We are really getting fed up with not being able to watch any TV in other rooms. If the splitter or new box doesn't work then I suppose we will have to call on an aerial chap, but would like to avoid that cost if at all possible. Thanks Regards Sam
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I don't know why anyone RELIES on Terrestrial anymore. If you look at it the wrong way it can have a hissy fit.
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jb388:19 PM
Sam: Provided that you checked the reception conditions before (or within 30 minutes) of carrying out your test with the TV in the loft, this mentioned just in case Waltham was magically OK on that day (unlikely though!), then your test was perfectly valid and is inclined to indicate that there is a problem with your installation.
As you will probably already know, your test was in effect a superior way of checking the picture quality / signal level with not only the booster being by-passed but also the cabling, the problem now is that by eliminating the booster and cabling at the same time its doesn't reveal where the deficiency is, and so admittedly an inconvenience, but you should still try either by-passing the booster whilst the reception is poor, or alternatively just try switching the SLX's mains supply off to note if anything changes, which of course it should by the picture breaking up worse than it was before if not vanishing altogether, although in the interests of accuracy the TV should be left on its signal check screen whilst conducting these type of tests as variations in levels are much easier to see, plus of course a digital picture does not change quality in sympathy to signal level changes, unless the said changes cause the level to be hovering near to the cut off threshold then a variety of problems is liable be experienced.
This is a link for a Konig brand 8 way variable booster, as I would not advise you to use anything other than a powered booster unless a person resides in a really strong signal area, although even at that I still have reservations.
8 Way TV Aerial Booster Amplifier Digital Freeview | eBay
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jb389:18 PM
Ian: Well it does have to be admitted that in your particular location Waltham (@ 31 miles) in not predicated as being the station for reliable coverage of your area, with a mixture of variable and poor (greatest percentage) being indicated for all four muxes BBC / ITV / HD / SDN, and with the two commercial stations (ArqA / ArqB) indicated as not receivable at any level, albeit that they still might be in a fashion.
Sutton Coldfield (@ 19 miles) is the station indicated as covering your area, however I will agree that although DTT can in many areas be excellent with only the very odd glitch now and then, but though its an unfortunate fact that there are lots of areas where DTT reception is not really acceptable to anyone that's even remotely a tad fussy, and so Freesat is really the only option for 99.9% reliability. (except of course during a thundery downpour!)
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Monday, 3 December 2012
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Calgacas12:02 PM
I have exactly the same problems (at the same times) as John Sands and I'm in LE3.
What's more pretty much everyone on the street has the same problems and its not a minor issue. These "engineering works" have been causing several mux to disappear completely from scans for days at a time for well over a month now.
That's an unacceptable level of disruption IMHO. Telling people (as one guy on the street has been told) to point the aerial at Sutton Coldfield is no answer at all as you lose all your local programming.
No point in talking about aerials or amps - the source is clearly at the Tx and its clearly ongoing work to deal with 4G/LTE interference on C61 (and arguably all the way down to C56).
Just so we're clear here, there are people around this area with large aerials (bought during the analogue+digital period) who now can't receive mux that they could prior to analogue switchover. That's the effect of these "engineering works".
If this is what its like with reduced signal power then a large chunk of Leicester is going to be stuffed when 4G/LTE arrives anyway and a £10 filter isn't going to help.
So its goodbye to DVB-T for me - in retrospect its been an ongoing trainwreck in the UK and shows few signs of improving. I just wish someone would pay me the cash spent on DVB-T freeview stuff as its been a waste of money.
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I havent had that many problems using Waltham, but there always seams to be some kind of "work" going on. Satellite just seams much more reliable and you can chose any BBC/ITV region you want.
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Thursday, 6 December 2012
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Giles Williams10:54 AM
I live 15 miles south of Sleaford and I am having precisely the same issues as described here. For a couple of weeks the TV has been unwatchable until approximately 10am and then unwatchable again after approximately 6pm. I am right on the boundary between Waltham and the Lincoln transmitter. Hopefully this will clear up soon as until these last few weeks, our reception has been first class from Waltham.
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Friday, 7 December 2012
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Symon10:46 AM
Derby
The signal strength coming out of Waltham on the BBC channels C61 (E.Mids) C43 (W.Mids) is and has been a joke for the last 2 months...
All the BBC respond with is "There's engineering works in progress". I'm running short of patience..
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Symon: C43 is from Sutton Coldfield rather than Waltham.
If you are able to turn your aerial to face it, it will also be facing the Waltham relay which is inline and is located at the Fire Service HQ.
The relay used to broadcast BBC One and ITV analogue and is intended for those who cannot receive directly from Waltham but can do so from Sutton Coldfield. Since switchover it has relayed Waltham's three PSB channels. Using it in conjunction with Sutton Coldfield's COMs will provide the full complement of Freeview channels along with East Midlands programming.
It may be necessary to use manual tuning to get the correct regional programming.
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