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.
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: 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 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- | 50W |
 1 BBC One (SD) South East, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 16 others | |||||
| PSB2 D3+4 | V max | C24 (498.0MHz) | 115m | DTG- | 50W |
 3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian (East micro region)), 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 (Meridian south coast), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C27 (522.0MHz) | 115m | DTG- | 50W |
 46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South East, 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 | |||||
Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?
The Chartham (Kent, 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 Chartham transmitter?
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 54km west-southwest (252°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Maidstone ME14 5NZ, 32km 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 | 31 Mar 2018- | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | |||||
| C21 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C24 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C27 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C31 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 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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Tuesday, 26 August 2014
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Steve9:18 PM
Had some power cuts affecting Chartham area this evening and getting errors constantly since saying YouView signal is weak and can't watch any channels at all. Have checked everything in house and wondered if Chartham transmitter had been affected?
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MikeB10:39 PM
Steve: As you can above, there doesn't seem to be anything reported.
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Wednesday, 27 August 2014
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Steve11:25 PM
Thanks for replying Mike, yesterday my freeview signal showed as 80% signal quality and 10% strength which is why I presume it kept breaking up.
Today it's back to quality 100% and strength 666% and back to normal.
Only thing I did is retune all the channels which had no immediate effect, who knows, seems ok now.
Thanks - Steve.
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Wednesday, 28 September 2016
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Simon2:10 PM
Cannot recieve the local BBC stations, 001, 002 009. Other stations from transmitter OK. Tried reaching tuning. Still not available. Same on both tvs.
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Thursday, 29 September 2016
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Richard8:04 AM
Simon: In postcode CT11QH, cannot recieve the local BBC stations 001, 002, 009. Also lost station 130. Other stations from transmitter OK. Tried re-tuning. Still not available. Started yesterday afternoon (28 Sep). No change as at 8pm on Thu 29 Sep !
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10:39 AM
Canterbury
Transmitter engineering:
No BBC services have been received at CT1 3DE for past couple of days. ITV and Channel 4 channels all fine.Tried retuning and have connected to other transmitter with weak signal (from Dover?) where BBC channels break up with distortion. Not good enough for viewing. When will Chartham transmitter send me BBC again?
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Eion's: mapE's Freeview map terrainE's terrain plot wavesE's frequency data E's Freeview Detailed Coverage
MikeP
12:14 PM
12:14 PM
Eion:
Please see the notice below your posting.
Please also note that this website is not connected with any of the broadcasters nor those who operate and maintain the transmitters.
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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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suzanne's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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