Full Freeview on the Waltham (Leicestershire, England) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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52.801,-0.801 or 52°48'4"N 0°48'5"W

LE14 4AJ

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.

This transmitter has no current reported problems

The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Waltham (Leicestershire, England) transmitter.

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name

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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.

Mux	H/V	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	H max	C32 (562.0MHz)	442m	DTG-	50,000W
	1 BBC One (SD) East Midlands, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, 250 BBC Red Button, plus 16 others
PSB2 D3+4	H max	C34 (578.0MHz)	442m	DTG-	50,000W
	3 ITV 1 (SD) (Central (East micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) Midlands ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 Midlands ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Central west),
PSB3 BBCB	H max	C35 (586.0MHz)	442m	DTG-	50,000W
	56 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Central West), 104 Channel 4 HD Midlands ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 109 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others 66 TBN UK,
COM4 SDN	H -3dB	C29 (538.0MHz)	442m	DTG-8	25,000W
	20 Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! movies action, 46 Channel 5 +1, 58 ITVBe +1, 59 ITV3 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 CBS Reality, 74 Dave ja vu, 78 TCC, 81 Blaze +1, 89 ITV4 +1, 203 CITV, 208 Pop Player, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, plus 15 others
COM5 ArqA	H -3dB	C37 (602.0MHz)	449m	DTG-8	25,000W
	11 Sky Arts, 17 Really, 19 Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 pick, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 57 Smithsonian Channel, 60 Drama +1, 70 Quest +1, 75 Yesterday +1, 83 Together TV, 233 Sky News, plus 9 others
COM6 ArqB	H -3dB	C31 (554.0MHz)	449m	DTG-8	25,000W
	12 Quest, 25 W, 27 Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 71 Quest Red +1, 73 HobbyMaker, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 88 Classic Hits, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 19 others
LNG	H -10dB	C41 (634.0MHz)	442m	DTG-12	5,000W
	from 27th May 2014: 7 Notts TV,

DTG-8 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 (305°)
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		C5_waves	C5_waves				BBCB
C37						com8	com8
C41							_local
C49_{tv_off}					BBCA	BBCA
C54_{tv_off}	C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves	D3+4	D3+4	D3+4
C55_{tv_off}							com7_{tv_off}
C56_{tv_off}				ArqA	ArqA	ArqA	COM8_{tv_off}
C57_{tv_off}				ArqB	ArqB	ArqB
C58_{tv_off}	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBCB	BBCB	BBCB
C61	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	BBCA
C64	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves

_{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 TV region BBC East Midlands Central (East micro region)

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Waltham transmitter area

Feb 1956-Jul 1968	Associated TeleVision†
Feb 1956-Jul 1968	Associated British Corporation◊
Jul 1968-Dec 1981	Associated TeleVision
Jan 1982-Feb 2004	Central Independent Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014	ITV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Waltham was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

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Harry C
9:51 AM
Loughborough

Hi since this work started some weeks ago there has been an ever increasing problem with the Vodafone in the Sileby area (IE) LE12 7EF I'm wondering if this is a coincidence ?

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Dave Lindsay

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10:17 AM

Harry C: Yes it's a coincidence!

The is 13 miles away which is much further than mobile phone signals work across.

According to 'Sitefinder' Mobile Phone Base Station Database there is a Vodafone base on Manor Drive where there is a mobile phone tower shown on Streetview. Sitefinder may not be up-to-date.

Has a building gone up between that base station and the area you have difficulty getting a in?

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Dave Lindsay

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10:28 AM

Harry C: At the same location, Sitefinder indicates there is an O2 3G base . The O2 coverage checker indicates base stations and this one is shown, which may be an indication that it is still there.

The base station is at the front of Soar Valley Timber.

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DarrenG
12:12 PM
Loughborough

DominicP: If I understand your question, then yes. The tuners are not configured, just the DVB-T2 tuners. I tried disabling the tuners individually to see if one of them had a fault but they both worked fine on all the other multiplexes. Yes, I saw the new drivers and tried them - no effect unfortunately.

I find it odd that some people with different PC configurations have the same problem that I have but you are fine with the same tuners as me. Maybe there is a clue buried there somewhere...

It is very puzzling. If I did not get PSB2 at all (TV has 100% now) then I would have another thing to look into.

In my head I have kind of ruled out problems with as my TV is fine and so is your Media Center!

So, PC not changed.
Win7 MCE tunes all multiplexes.
Then PSB2 works intermittently.
Um....

My Media Center is a quite 'vanilla' build. I only added iplayer and PowerDVD to play blurays.I have done a few minor tweaks but can't really see these being an issue but need to check. I don't really want to rebuild the PC but will probably now go for a 100% , load the necessary drivers and try MCE/different PVR software.

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Harry C
1:12 PM

Thank you for your. I have tried to contact Vodafone but trying to get info out of them is like pulling hens teeth
Harry C:

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Dominic Payer
9:50 AM

DarrenG: It is important to for when is on full . , though further away, transmits with 150kW compared to Waltham's 50kW. WMC always scans all channels: there is no way to limit it to Waltham's frequencies. At present, Waltham is subject to effectively random power reductions so this can be difficult.

Check your detailed sources. PSB2 from Waltham is on 737.833, from Belmont on 506. For channels 3, 4, 5, 6, 13, 14, 28 and 33 you should have 4 sources only selected on 737.833 with 100%.

Sometimes, there are also issues with PSB1 - Waltham 698, Belmont 482 - and PSB3 - Waltham 770, Belmont 530. These are usually just duplicated channels with the second version tuned to Belmont's .

Any problems are minimal if Waltham is on full power when the scan is performed.

I think the items you mentioned earlier indicate the tuner in use for the channel.

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David Shaw
10:53 AM

Lindsay: Thankyou for your advice. You were absolutely correct, BBC1 on TV 1 is indeed tuned into Channel 43 which is operating on low (unlike the other BBC which are all tuned into Channel 49 and are therefore OK since this channel is operating on a much higher power). I have also now found BBC1 on TV channel 800 which is tuned into channel 49 and is therefore, not surprisingly, OK.

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Dave Lindsay

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11:32 AM

David Shaw: There are few possibilities:

You may be able to wipe what's already stored, for example by running the through with the unplugged. Then manually tune the five SD muxes (and one HD mux, if applicable).

Or you may be able to have the aerial lead unplugged during scanning of 's . The scan runs channels 21 to 69, so if yours only gives a percentage progresss you can estimate the channels.

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stef
6:32 PM

Same issues as many other
TV is fine however
With our windows 7 media centre virtually always black screen with no sound ITV intermittently black screen
This is not a pc issue or TV issue
However when retuning the media it does say downloading the TV data for your , before scanning so is it that Microsoft have not yet updated something ?

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DarrenG
7:06 PM

Dominic P:
I have occasionally 'picked up' . I always check the frequencies MCE is using against what is on this webpage!

I also DO limit the MCE , or at least the frequencies used. At least it seems to work. The other day I scanned and it picked up some Belmont frequencues. I then immediately applied my registry update and only picked up frequencies. The were all at 100%.

Here is a link to the '' options:
http://imageshack.us/a/im….jpg

This appears ONLY on PSB2.

It is not the tuner in use:
http://img189.imageshack.….jpg (LE125DN)

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