Full Freeview on the Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) transmitter which serves 920,000 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 Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) mast?
Sandy Heath transmitter - Sandy Heath transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 05/06/2023 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Sandy Heath 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Sandy Heath transmitter?
BBC Look East (West) 1.0m homes 3.7%
from Cambridge CB4 0WZ, 29km east-northeast (66°)
to BBC Cambridge region - 4 masts.
70% of BBC East (East) and BBC East (West) is shared output
ITV Anglia News 1.0m homes 3.7%
from Norwich NR1 3JG, 119km east-northeast (60°)
to ITV Anglia (West) region - 5 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Anglia (East)
How will the Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1965-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 12 Feb 2020 | ||||
| VHF | A K T | K T | K T | W T | W T | ||||
| C6 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C21 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C24 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C27 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C31 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C32 | com7 | ||||||||
| C33 | SDN | ||||||||
| C34 | com8 | ||||||||
| C35 | _local | ||||||||
| C36 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C39 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C43 | _local | ||||||||
| C48 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C51tv_off | SDN | ||||||||
| C52tv_off | ArqA | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off |
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 30 Mar 11 and 13 Apr 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 1000kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7.4dB) 180kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-7.7dB) 170kW | |
| com7 | (-13dB) 49.6kW | |
| com8 | (-13.1dB) 49.1kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 20kW | |
| Analogue 5 | (-20dB) 10kW |
Local transmitter maps
Sandy Heath Freeview Sandy Heath DAB Sandy Heath TV region BBC Cambridge Anglia (West micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Sandy Heath transmitter area
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Saturday, 28 September 2013
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Stephen Penny5:01 PM
Wendy: I will echo those comments about the signal in Wisbech last night. Massive and long lasting loss of signal on several stations.
And spread irregularly across the multiplexes, all of Channel 24, some stations on channel 51 and 52, channel 48 apparently unaffected. And the govt blurb on this was how wonderful it would all be and no co-channel interference!
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mark7:46 PM
Downham Market
pe38 absolutely disgusted with freeview it has always been poor ,now we get hardly any signal ,its usually worse at night but recently its as poor during the day,we have done everything we can do
what a farse, why should we have to pay for a tv licence when we can't view it who can you contact to sort this problem out?
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mark7:51 PM
Downham Market
p.s . I also meant to say BRING BACK ANALOGUE
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Stuart Hillyeard7:58 PM
Thetford
Stuart
Post Code IP26 5AB
Had nothing but trouble with picture break up & keeping getting "Weak / No Signal" coming up. Have re-tuned a number of times - no better. Aerial on roof high up.
Digital has been a complete joke forced upon us. What do we pay our licence for - B.B.C. executive salary increases?
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colin clements8:15 PM
Ely
Same problems as the people above something has to be sorted and soon: CB75FH Soham Ely Cambs Aerial up on the roof
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Dennis Gilbey8:24 PM
Cambridge
CB25 0EJ Burwell Cambs.
Picture been breaking up for the past 2 days.
Tried retuning to no avail.
What's going on !!!
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Mick Kelly8:30 PM
Same problems as people above, weak signal for the last two days.
If it is just atmospherics then please us!
Is it too much to ask for an explanation?
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Nadine8:39 PM
Ely
CB6 Ely keep losing all channels comes back on but only for a minute then its gone again had the same problem Tuesday evening too.
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Vernon Place8:42 PM
Ely
Very poor reception for last two days Picture freezes or breaks up in CB7 area
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Rod Hattan10:02 PM
Newton, Wisbech terrible reception on all channels but unwatchable on BBC.
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