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Full Freeview on the Waltham (Leicestershire, England) transmitter

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

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.

Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Waltham (Leicestershire, England) mast?

WALTHAM transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to a fault from 5 Jun 15:20 until 5 Jun 15:22. .

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?

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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.

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?

Comments

Friday, 15 April 2011

Nigel Cory
2:24 PM
Grantham

Hello. My location is in NG31 and I have line of sight to (13 miles). I have been having the same problems over the last couple of days with stations on Mux 2. I have two identical antennae in the attic and the strength has always been excellent from both.

To regain the Mux 2 stations on the Panasonic TV, I had to delete and then do a full . This worked eventually. The second feeds a Vivanco Pro DVB-T USB2 tuner running into a PC. The run on this is even shorter than the one to the TV (about 4 metres).

Using the provided software and selecting Waltham for scanning, the missing stations are indicated by name and (490000) but . When I again deleted all stored stations and scanned selecting 'All UK transmitters', the missing were restored albeit at a slightly lower signal strength (sorry, I have no dB readout) but still excellent . I assume that the Mux 2 channels are now being received on a sidelobe from Sandy Hill.

I am confused, as prior to the recent changes, all stations were received from Waltham on equal signal strengths. It appears that the Mux 2 is on a slightly lower power (8KW) than some of the others but Muxes B, C, and D produce excellent results from Waltham although stated to be on only 5KW output.

I have never believed in the received view that matters 'technical' are a matter of logic. There must be gremlins in the area. Although I am of course open to persuasion that I am wrong.

Regards

Nigel

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Jonathan
2:34 PM
Newark

@ - Other people in our village have the same problem.

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Nigel Cory
3:40 PM
Grantham

Reference my last. Please ignore the comment about 'sidelobe' as I assume the Sandy Hill is as near to omnidirectional as makes no difference.

Nigel

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Simon
4:12 PM
Nottingham

Like many others, I lost Mux 2 on 13 April in NG8 postcode using . I have a rooftop which serves a Humax 9300 upstairs and a Humax 9200 downstairs. The Humax 9300 retuned no problem and picked up Ch31. I have tried many times to retune the Humax 9200 downstairs and it is having none of it. I've read through numerous threads and cannot believe that all of these similar issues are coincidental.

Any bright ideas would be gratefully received..?

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Steve
4:27 PM
Spalding

Simon, have you tried switching your two boxes round? Would the 9300 still recieve mux2 downstairs, and would the 9200 tune it in upstairs?

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Simon
4:39 PM
Nottingham

I recall an advertising slogan "it's good to talk"! It's amazing how such an obvious thing can be missed when you get so embedded and frustrated with it! However, this might just lead me to either having a problem with the downstairs or needing to acquire a new PVR?

I'll give it a try later - thanks Steve.

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maxcranwell
5:10 PM
Lincoln

we are almost perfectly placed between the two transmitters, - 36.5km 22.7 miles
- 36.4km 22.6 miles. Have been using for years no problem and had upgraded equipment to receive HD this year. All was great until the 13th. It now seems neither is delivering a strong enough for us to get ITV, yet both deliver strong enough signal for BBC Lincs Yorks or East Mids. We have no RF devices, I have done full factory reset on Akura TV Phillips TV and Samsung TV. Does anyone know if the strengh of the signal reduced with this change?

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Briantist

_{sentiment_very_satisfied}Owner

5:27 PM

maxcranwell: No, the strength did not reduce.

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Lee Gillyon
7:22 PM
Nottingham

hi I am in NG5 and I have lost itv etc as well. SOmebody must know what the problem is??

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Steve C
8:02 PM

Hi All
I like others who have posted here in the last couple of days am having the same problems with missing .

I phoned the TV line today and I was told there have been many calls about lost channels after the retune the other day. I was also told that the problem should be fixed by 6pm this evening. It's now 7:45 and still no channels.

This reminds me of problems a couple of years ago when they did a retune and some of my older Digi Boxes would not work so I had to replace them.

Can anyone answer this for me. I have 2x Panasonic TV's Less that 9 months old that have retuned OK and I have strength on the ITV ( 3)of 10 and the of signal is 9.

I have a slightly older Samsung TV (2 Years) which will not find ITV and other channels. I have even taken the Samsung and plugged it into the point of the working Panasonic.

I also have 3x other and none of thes will find ITV and the missing channels.

Why are my Panasonic TV's Working and the others are not?

Does this mean we will have to go out and replace our equipment again?

Steve C

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