Full Freeview on the Tunbridge Wells (Kent, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Tunbridge Wells (Kent, England) transmitter which serves 53,000 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 Tunbridge Wells (Kent, England) mast?
TUNBRIDGE WELLS transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 22 May 17:28 until 22 May 17:30. Off the air due to a fault from 22 May 16:15 until 22 May 16:17. Off the air due to a fault from 22 May 15:30 until 22 May 15:31. Off the air due to a fault from 22 May 14:55 until
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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)
The Tunbridge Wells (Kent, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which Freeview channels does the Tunbridge Wells 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)
The Tunbridge Wells (Kent, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Tunbridge Wells transmitter?
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 5km south-southwest (205°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Maidstone ME14 5NZ, 21km northeast (53°)
to ITV Meridian (East) region - 36 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian plus Oxford
How will the Tunbridge Wells (Kent, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 19 Jul 2018 | |||
B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | K T | |||
C29 | SDN | ||||||||
C31 | ArqA | ||||||||
C37 | C5waves | C5waves | ArqB | ||||||
C39 | _local | ||||||||
C41 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | BBCA | ||
C42 | SDN | +SDN | +SDN | ||||||
C44 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | D3+4 | ||
C47 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | ||
C49tv_off | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||||
C51tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | _local | _local | _local | |||
C52tv_off | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA |
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 May 12 and 13 Jun 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-4 | 10kW | |
Analogue 5, SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-4dB) 4kW | |
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-20dB) 100W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Tunbridge Wells transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldThursday, 26 April 2012
TUNBRIDGE WELLS transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV (Four, Cbeebies, Parliament, 3... Off Air from 14:07 yesterday to 14:13 yesterday [BBC]
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Friday, 27 April 2012
TUNBRIDGE WELLS transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV (Four, Cbeebies, Parliament, 3... Off Air from 14:07 on 25 Apr to 14:13 on 25 Apr [BBC]
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TUNBRIDGE WELLS transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV (Four, Cbeebies, Parliament, 3... Off Air from 14:07 on 25 Apr to 14:13 on 25 Apr [BBC]
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Monday, 14 May 2012
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John Bates10:38 AM
Thanks Dave. Perhaps an expansion of your response of the "Power up" of levels on the 13th and then the 27th would have been more helpful.
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John Bates: The delay of two weeks will affect ITV3 and the other services carried on the "SDN" multiplex. See here under the heading "After switchover configuration" for those carried on SDN:
Freeview multiplexes | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
The reason for the delay is because the Dover transmitter is currently broadcasting on the same channel/frequency that will be used by TW for SDN after it switches over (Ch42). Dover completes its switchover on 27th June and it is then that it relinquishes use of that channel.
Thus, the interim low power from TW is so as to protect against causing interference to some people who are receiving C42 from Dover.
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Friday, 18 May 2012
Dave Lindsay: Sorry, typo, I had 42 again for COM6, not 41. Should be OK now. Thanks for pointing it out!
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Tuesday, 29 May 2012
TUNBRIDGE WELLS transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV (Four, Cbeebies, Parliament, 3... Off Air from 07:24 today to 09:39 today BBC Digital TV (One, Two, Three, CBBC, News) Off Air from 07:24 today to 09:39 today [BBC]
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TUNBRIDGE WELLS transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV (Four, Cbeebies, Parliament, 3... Off Air from 07:24 today to 09:39 today BBC Digital TV (One, Two, Three, CBBC, News) Off Air from 07:24 today to 09:39 today [BBC]
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Wednesday, 30 May 2012
TUNBRIDGE WELLS transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 00:22 today to 01:37 today [BBC]
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TUNBRIDGE WELLS transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 00:22 today to 01:37 today [BBC]
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