Freeview Light on the Chartham (Kent, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Chartham (Kent, England) transmitter which serves 4,900 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 Chartham (Kent, England) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
DTG-3 64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-6 256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Chartham (Kent, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4Music, 4seven, 4seven HD, 5SELECT, 5Spike, 5STAR, 5STAR +1, 5USA, 5USA +1, AlJazeera English (SD), Aljazeera English HD, BBC Four HD, BBC News HD, Blaze, Blaze +1, CBeebies HD, CBS Drama, CBS Justice, CBS Reality, CBS Reality +1, Challenge, Channel 4+1 HD, Channel 5 +1, CITV, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama, E4 +1, Food Network, Forces TV, Freesports, Home, Horror Channel, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Together TV +1, Movies4Men, NOW 80s, Now 90s, Paramount Network, PBS America, pick, Pick +1, Quest +1, Quest Red, Quest Red +1, Really, RT HD, Sewing Quarter, Sky News, Smithsonian Channel HD, Sony Movie Channel, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, Together TV, Yesterday, YourTV.
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 Chartham 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 | V max | C21 (474.0MHz) | 115m | DTG-3 | 50W |
 1 BBC One (SD) South East, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 201 CBBC SD, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, 250 BBC Red Button, plus 15 others | |||||
| PSB2 D3+4 | V max | C24 (498.0MHz) | 115m | DTG-3 | 50W |
 3 ITV (SD) (Meridian (East micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5 (SD), 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 24 ITV4, 33 ITV +1 (Meridian south coast), 45 Film4 +1, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C27 (522.0MHz) | 115m | DTG-6 | 50W |
 86 More4 +1, 101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 ITV HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 204 CBBC HD, | |||||
DTG-6 256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Are you trying to watch these 60 Freeview channels?
The Chartham (Kent, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4Music, 4seven, 4seven HD, 5SELECT, 5Spike, 5STAR, 5STAR +1, 5USA, 5USA +1, AlJazeera English (SD), Aljazeera English HD, BBC Four HD, BBC News HD, Blaze, Blaze +1, CBeebies HD, CBS Drama, CBS Justice, CBS Reality, CBS Reality +1, Challenge, Channel 4+1 HD, Channel 5 +1, CITV, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama, E4 +1, Food Network, Forces TV, Freesports, Home, Horror Channel, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Together TV +1, Movies4Men, NOW 80s, Now 90s, Paramount Network, PBS America, pick, Pick +1, Quest +1, Quest Red, Quest Red +1, Really, RT HD, Sewing Quarter, Sky News, Smithsonian Channel HD, Sony Movie Channel, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, Together TV, Yesterday, YourTV.
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 Chartham transmitter?
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 55km west-southwest (252°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Maidstone ME14 5NZ, 33km west (271°)
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 Chartham (Kent, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 31 Mar 2018- | |||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | |||
| C21 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | ||
| C24 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||
| C27 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | ||
| C31 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
tv_off Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) by 30 June 2020 - 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 13 Jun 12 and 27 Jun 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 250W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 50W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Dover transmitter area
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Friday, 15 September 2017
Transmitter engineering
5:32 AM
5:32 AM
CHARTHAM transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 11:21 yesterday to 11:28 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 11:21 yesterday to 11:28 yesterday. [BBC]
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Saturday, 16 September 2017
Transmitter engineering
5:32 AM
5:32 AM
CHARTHAM transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 11:21 on 14 Sep to 11:28 on 14 Sep, HD Digital TV Off Air from 11:21 on 14 Sep to 11:28 on 14 Sep. [BBC]
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Wednesday, 27 September 2017
Transmitter engineering
2:32 PM
2:32 PM
CHARTHAM transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Reduced Quality from 13:43 today. [BBC]
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Thursday, 28 September 2017
Transmitter engineering
5:32 AM
5:32 AM
CHARTHAM transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Reduced Quality from 13:43 yesterday to 23:43 yesterday. [BBC]
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Thursday, 12 October 2017
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suzanne lucas7:22 PM
Myself and my neighbours are experiencing most channels having really bad pixilation and break up of picture. bbc1,2,itv and 4 seem ok and only occasionally a little pixelation at times. I gather our transmitter is Chartham. We have had problems for some weeks. Fearing I might sound a bit of a lune, i wondered, would by any chance the Cathedral with its huge amount of scaffolding be responsible for our television reception problems? As it is the highest building in Canterbury i thought perhaps it may have something to do with it. Its pretty frustrating as we can only get to watch a couple of channels. Can you help? not sure where else to get help. I have retuned our tv several times.
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suzanne lucas7:25 PM
Canterbury
my post code is CT2 7EQ
Canterbury.
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Friday, 13 October 2017
MikeP
10:37 AM
10:37 AM
suzanne lucas:
It is unlikely to be anything connected with Canterbury Cathedral scaffolding, it is not between you and the transmitter at Chartham. The Cathedral is South East of you and the transmitter is West South West of you. It is more likely to be aerial cable problems. Check that all the cables are properly inserted into the sockets, by unplugging them and then re-inserting, and check the cables are undamaged.
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Thursday, 23 November 2017
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
CHARTHAM transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 03:23 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 03:23 today. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
11:09 AM
11:09 AM
CHARTHAM transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 03:23 today to 08:37 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 03:23 today to 08:37 today. DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 08:39 today to 08:52 today. [BBC]
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Friday, 24 November 2017
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
CHARTHAM transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 03:23 yesterday to 08:37 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 03:23 yesterday to 08:37 yesterday. DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 08:39 yesterday to 08:52 yesterday. [BBC]
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