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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Sunday, 17 July 2011
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John10:13 PM
Ely
Excellent!! No Mux A, C and COMC reception from Sandy Heath again and this time its been going on for 3 weeks now. Just in time to miss the whole of the Tour de France. Don't you just love Freeview? It was all so much better before the great switchover when we only lost one or two channels for a couple of days if the atmospherics were playing up.
Does this mean that I'm going to be without half my channels until the end of August and possibly longer??
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John: Basically, no. You should have and always have had and will have 100% reception on all multiplexes from Sandy Heath.
I presume your aerial is on the roof?
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Sunday, 24 July 2011
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John7:25 PM
Ely
Yes...the aerial is still on the roof (new wideband in mid-2009) and all was fine (apart from the occasional weather-related issue) until we approached the switchover when channels started going missing at irregular intervals....always the same Mux's as are missing now. Everything settled down after the switchover until a few weeks ago when we started to lose channels and nothing has returned since. All other reception is perfect but if A, C and COM6 are all on very low power, I'm not really surprised that we aren't getting them. The question is...why are they on such low power and how long is it going to last?
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Monday, 25 July 2011
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Martin jeeves9:39 AM
Newport Pagnell
hi I have just got a freesat box and all is well apart from bbchd ,my system tells me that signal is weak,my sky dish unused for 8 years is the one i am linked up to ,do you think i should get a new one (there is one in the box with the freesat box)am approx 13 miles from sandy thanks for any help
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Steve P10:55 AM
Martin - If you are using Freesat you are on the wrong page here, as you do not receive from Sandy Heath you receive from the sky satellite.
Your weak signal could be that the dish is not pointed exactly right; that the LNB (thing at focus of dish) is old; or that your cabling is damaged.
You could certainly try the new dish, but it might be worth paying an expert to sort it - for his time, knowledge, experience, and testing kit.
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Thursday, 28 July 2011
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Bob Archer7:41 AM
Sandy heath BBC mux seems to be off the air this morning, but not reported anywhere.
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Bob Archer: I would check for Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Friday, 29 July 2011
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neil grainger12:08 AM
Dunmow
Hi, Im moving to dunmow (cm61us/1ds) It's a new build and it's got no aerial. I have not got a clue what aerial to get and if i will get away with putting it in the loft. Also is sandy heath my best transmitter.
Thanks for any help.
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neil grainger: You will need to point your aerial to the Sudbury transmitter at that address, as you will (at least by 27th June 2012) get all the services from that transmitter.
You can use a group B, group E or wideband aerial with Sudbury.
You need to mount the aerial on the roof, not in the loft, if you want a reliable service.
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neil grainger8:59 AM
Dunmow
ok thanks very much for that.
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