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.
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._______
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 (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 | 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 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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Saturday, 16 April 2011
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obsidian_eclipse11:29 PM
Ok.. this C31 issue is just stupid. I've tried everything, disconnecting other equipment, changing cables and attenuators... Still nothing on C31. If something is causing interference then its not coming from this house and the neighbours are out so there must be a wood pigeon with a cell phone on the chimney. I suppose this means no ITV, C4 or C5 until August.
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Sunday, 17 April 2011
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Dave Hunter7:21 AM
Derby
Daylight and its gone back to red screen. could it be that the signal strength is weakening at night from Nottingham and that Waltham then gets a look in?
Why doesn't any one at the Digital or the Beeb seem bothered?
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Jim9:13 AM
Nottingham
I live in NG2 have wideband aeriel on roof pointed at Waltham. I have 3 freeview tuners, BT vision, GoodmansGDB11XI, and finlux tv. Prior to 13 April i had no probs on MUX2 but mux 3 was variable. Post 13 re scan quality on Mux 2 and 3 went awful on all but the Finlux which was fine. Mux 2 came back today on BT Vision box but Mux 3 was still bad. I turned off RF output on the BT Vision and MUX 3 now looks good (Low strenght but 100% quality). I am having no joy at all with the Goodmans STB still cant get MUX 2. The only difference I can think is quality of hardware, the Goodmans was less that £20. Is this likely to be a factor
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obsidian_eclipse9:31 AM
Still nothing this morning either for me on c31.
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Dave Hunter10:39 AM
Derby
Just phone Beeb, Digital and they each blame each other and now they are saying that we must have local interference as its only happening in daylight hours. Nobody will do anything. Any Ideas? BTW they suggested OFCOM but what can they do?
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Martyn12:06 PM
I echo Dave Hunter's comments. I've had problems from Wednesday 13th. Contacted Humax, digital.co.uk, ITV and none of the suggested solutions work, including disconnecting nearby equipment such as PVR's and video recorders. Lost completely everything from channels 29 and 31. Why cannot someone put their hand up and explain what's wrong, what they're doing to fix it, and when it will be fixed?
Frustrated from Loughborough (52.7708,-1.2043)
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obsidian_eclipse1:05 PM
Its not just daylight hours over here. Nothing at all day or night. I've tried different boxes, tv's and pc tuner. If there is interference then its pretty specific to c31.. Do any other transmiters use c31 anywhere for digital, or did they, did they have similar issues at some point. My only thought now is that perhaps all our receivers have some common problem, electrical noise generated from cooling fans or earth leakage - just grasping at straws really.
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obsidian_eclipse1:28 PM
I've been googling 554Mhz and c31, there are some comments on different forums about similar issues in other parts of the country. A few people have come to the conclusion that there is indeed something about that particular band which may suffer from interference generated internaly within the componants of reception equipment or tv's (i'm not refering to a modulated rf output). Some people have rectfied it by buying new equipment (yeah right... My equipments new and I cant fork out for newer stuff - again!) others by doing weird and wonderful things with tin foil around the back of the tv which is not recommended..
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obsidian_eclipse4:34 PM
Regards the c31 issue, I've been running further tests on the signal I'm getting and can say it isnt anything to do with local interference or the equipment I'm using.
I've been using a diagnostic program on my PC called ScanChannelsBDA_UK which allows me to examine the frequencies being recieved, it also provides me with the 'network information' (Lists the region, multiplex information, parent transmitter as well as relay transmitter frequencies. This then generates a table with the Channel, LCN, SID, Vid, Aud, PMT for each one.
Every frequency lists on there properly apart from.... C31; which gives signal strength and quality information (in line with the others) but insists that "no network information" is being broadcast. So on C31 the channel list, Vid and Aud program id (PIDs) are all missing. So, it appears there is a broadcast issue.
Also, the program discovered a weak digital signal on frequency 546Mhz (-166Khz) which would be Channel 30, perhaps the closeness of this is causing issues? I can only think that would be either Belmont or Fenton but they are a distance away..
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Jonathan4:45 PM
Newark
> So, it appears there is a broadcast issue.
Thanks for that obsidian_eclipse. So I'll just wait until they get round to sorting it out and stop beating up my brain trying to fix it myself.
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