Full Freeview on the Chesterfield (Derbyshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Chesterfield (Derbyshire, England) transmitter which serves 25,000 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 Chesterfield (Derbyshire, England) mast?
Chesterfield transmitter - Chesterfield transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 04/11/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels 
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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 Chesterfield (Derbyshire, 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 Chesterfield 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 Chesterfield (Derbyshire, 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 Chesterfield transmitter?
BBC Look North (Leeds) 1.9m homes 7.4%
from Leeds LS9 8AH, 58km north (353°)
to BBC Yorkshire region - 56 masts.
ITV Calendar 1.9m homes 7.4%
from Leeds LS3 1JS, 59km north (351°)
to ITV Yorkshire (Emley Moor) region - 59 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Belmont region
How will the Chesterfield (Derbyshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 5 Feb 2020 | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | K T | K T | |||||
| C23 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | |||||
| C26 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | |||||
| C29 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C31 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C33 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C37 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C40 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C43 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C46 | ArqA | ArqA |
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 10 Aug 11 and 24 Aug 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 2kW | |
| BBCB | (-4dB) 800W | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4 | (-7dB) 400W | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 40W | |
| Mux A* | (-20dB) 20W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Emley Moor transmitter area
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Thursday, 24 November 2011
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Jon12:46 PM
Chesterfield
Whats happened to UHF Channel 26 514 Mhz from the Chesterfield transmitter, low power and very poor quality, Channel 29 538 Mhz is also appears to be on low power though at least the quality is OK. Tuning is always tricky here as Chesterfield, Sheffield and Emley Moor are all more or less aligned.
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ele11:06 PM
Hi why can i not get all freeview channels i live off derby road chesterfield i can not get film four itv three dave etc. i have ariel on roofand new tv
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ele: What direction is your aerial pointing in? What is your postcode?
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Sunday, 27 November 2011
E
ele9:35 PM
Chesterfield
my post code is s40 2sl my ariel is pointing the same way as the others around me sorry i not know which way is north south
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ele: Looking on Google Streetview, aerials are pointing at Chesterfield transmitter which broadcasts the commercial multiplexes (which includes Film4, ITV3 and Dave).
Chesterfield was previously Group A (low channel numbers only). If you have not had your aerial replaced, you will probably need to do so in order to pick up the commercial multiplexes as they are not in Group A.
For more on aerial groups, see here:
Aerial groups - new feature | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
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Monday, 23 January 2012
K
Keith10:50 PM
Sheffield
Would be grateful if someone could confirm whether I am on the right track with my thoughts. Trying to sort out my mothers Freeview, she keeps losing ITV1 since I retuned for Ch5 +1hr. She has new rooftop aerial pointed to Chesterfield transmitter.
Am I right in thinking her ITV1 should be on C23 ?
She currently has ITV C24 (very good), and also C44 (very good) on TV Channel 800 and C54 (poor) on TV channel 801.
From researching this site I presume these are actually Sheffield, Emley Moor, and Shatton Edge (?), and I need to manually retune to C23. Or am I way off track.
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Keith's: mapK's Freeview map terrainK's terrain plot wavesK's frequency data K's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Keith: Looking at the channel allocations for the transmitters in the area, it would probably be easier and safer to manually tune them all, if possible.
Depending on the design of the receiver, if you manually tune to something that is already stored in the memory (i.e. in the 800s), it might do nothing because as far as it's concerned they are already stored.
If you go to the Digital UK tradeview, it gives you all the channel numbers from the stations in the area.
Chesterfield's channels are:
BBC 26
ITV1 23
HD 29
ITV3 43
Pick TV 46
Yesterday 40
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012
K
Keith10:59 AM
Sheffield
Thanks for your reply Dave. I will give it a go on my next visit.
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Sunday, 29 April 2012
G
Greg6:45 PM
Chesterfield
All the HD Channels have gone off, nothing reported.
I am on the Chesterfield transmitter, was all working OK before I went on holiday.
I have carried out a retune, consequently Channels 50 51 52 53 are now missing.
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KMJ,Derby8:03 PM
Greg: There are no problems shown on the BBC status report with regard to any of the transmitters serving your area. Check that your aerial is still mounted correctly (rods vertical) and pointing North, I say this because C29 which carries the HD services from Chesterfield is also used at Waltham for the SDN mux. The Chesterfield signal is normally strong enough to drown out the Waltham signal, but in the event of the aerial being out of alignment the signals could simply cancel each other out. What is the signal strength like on the standard definition muxes? If you have any amplification on the aerial it is possible for too much signal to be the problem, as the HD mux is transmitted at double the power used on the other muxes to give Chesterfield a helping hand when competing with a signal from Waltham. Try a manual tune on C29, selecting DVB-T2 if asked to make a choice.
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