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The symbol shows the location of the Chalford (Gloucestershire, England) transmitter which serves 1,000 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 Chalford (Gloucestershire, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Chalford 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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
C24 (498.0MHz)222mDTG-25W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) West, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
C27 (522.0MHz)222mDTG-25W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (West), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (West), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C21+ (474.2MHz)222mDTG-25W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD West, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

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The Chalford (Gloucestershire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.

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 Chalford transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Points West 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS8 2LR, 41km southwest (228°)
to BBC West region - 60 masts.
regional news image
ITV West Country News (East) 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS4 3HG, 41km southwest (223°)
to ITV West region - 61 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with West Country (West)

How will the Chalford (Gloucestershire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20102010-135 Jun 2019
A K TA K TA K TA K TA K T
C21BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves+BBCBBBCB
C24ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesBBCABBCA
C27BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesD3+4D3+4
C31C4wavesC4wavesC4waves

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 24 Mar 10 and 7 Apr 10.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4 125W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 25W

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

Jan 1958-Jul 1968Television Wales and the West
Jul 1968-Feb 2004Harlech Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Chalford 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.

Comments
Sunday, 23 January 2011
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Fred Selley
5:32 PM
Stroud

Chalford Vale transmitter : Can you tell or predict, when we are scheduled to recieve all freeview programmes. We are still without ITV3, ITV4, Film4, What other channels or programmes are forecast for our transmitter soon please advise.

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Monday, 24 January 2011
Briantist
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8:03 AM

Fred Selley: This is a public service transmitter, the commercial operators do not want to operate from here. You won't be getting those additional channels.

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Monday, 23 May 2011
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Hugh Froggatt
11:05 AM
Stroud

I live at GL6 8JB.
Digital reception is perfect during the day and all freeview stations are received.

Every evening from about 1900hours there is intermittent interference and the picture breaks down into pixels. After a few minutes the picture is perfect but will breakdown again 5/10 minutes later.

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Mike Dimmick
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1:18 PM

Hugh Froggatt: At this time of year, 7pm is a bit early in the day for it to be down to tropospheric enhancement (see Tropospheric DX Modes for the meaning of this term). I'd look for sources of impulse interference, such as thermostats switching on and off. When is your central heating or hot water controller set to turn on? Try adjusting the temperature on the thermostat to see if clicking it on or off affects the TV reception.

If it does, there are two things you can do. First, replace the thermostat to reduce the amount of electrical noise it produces when it switches. Second, replace the cabling to the aerial with 'satellite-grade' cable. This has much better screening than the 'low-loss coax' typically used for household aerial cabling before digital services started.

The channels used by the Chalford transmitter are also used by the Ridge Hill transmitter, which is beyond a few hills. In the right weather conditions - causing enhancement or ducting - they could travel far enough to interfere. In ducting conditions you might also get some interference from Sandy Heath, and particularly Rowridge once it starts high-power transmissions next March. Digital UK show a drop in probability for reliable reception from 86% now to 28% next March.

Digital UK's predictor reckons you'd have a higher probability of reliable service from Oxford once it switches over in September.

If you had Freeview before switchover, you could be using Mendip. DUK are showing this as poor for the PSB multiplexes at present, with the COM muxes as good but going poor in March. It's not clear to me why that should be, as you appear to have line-of-sight to Mendip.

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Sunday, 7 August 2011
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Peter Noble
10:06 AM
Peterborough

What sort of reception can be expected with freeview on a caravan aerial as up to now no signal has given a picture from a number of locations.

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Monday, 8 August 2011
Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

7:26 AM

Peter Noble: You should get excellent reception from three transmitters Waltham, Sandy Heath and Belmont (less so until 23 Nov 11).

However you will need to mount the aerial externally, a set-top aerial will not work well inside a metal box, such as a caravan.

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Thursday, 12 July 2012
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Fred Selley
6:21 PM
Stroud

I am puzzled! their are many freeview channels of which I recieve very few. Could you tell me the channels I can recieve and the channels are cant recieve through the Chalford Vale transmitter.
I have just recieved a message on channel 4 telling me to retune for channel4/7 a new channel. I did. Where the hell is it?

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Dave Lindsay
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7:38 PM

Fred Selley: You won't receive 4seven on Freeview as it is only available from transmitters that carry all Freeview channels.

I received the same message myself when I switched from BBC to Channel 4, so I can only assume that the message to retune is being broadcast over the air on Channel 4, hence everyone will see it, even if they cannot ever tune to it.

I think that the likely answer at your location is that you won't be able to receive full Freeview. Freesat provides additional channels, including 4seven.

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Tuesday, 21 October 2014
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Carol lewis
7:51 PM

How long is the transmitter going to be off?

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Briantist
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10:04 PM

Carol lewis: This is a fault - it looks like a power outage - so it going to take as long as necessary to fix the problem....

Don't retune your TV sets, just wait for the service to return.

It could be storm damage, given the weather today.

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