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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Friday, 7 February 2020
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Chris.SE2:16 PM
David Levitt:
Ah, now that you've mentioned an amplifier, you may have too much signal, as the power on PSB1 & PSB2 was upped from 0.4kW to 0.8kW. If the amp has variable gain, try turning it down a bit, otherwise try without it in circuit to see what you get (not just switched off - aerial direct to TV). You need to be aiming for maybe a touch less than 100% signal so that you get 100% quality.
Otherwise good luck with the engineer visit who will no doubt resolve it if you can't in the meantime.
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Saturday, 8 February 2020
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David Levitt S18 7WF2:46 PM
Chris.SE:
I have bypassed the amplifier and connected the aerial directly to a single TV and performed a factory reset.
Still no ITV etc channels? All the others on C26, C29, C43 & C46 are showing strong signal & quality on the manual re-tune pages. C23 is showing no signal at all.
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Chris.SE3:46 PM
David Levitt;
This is odd. You should not be getting anything on C26 as according to Freeview documents PSB1 (BBCA) should have moved from C26 to C31 and PSB2 (ITV.Ch.4/5) from C23 to C37 as in my previous post.
Have you tried manual tuning on C31 and C37?
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Sunday, 9 February 2020
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David Levitt S18 7WF2:30 PM
Chris.SE:
Hello Chris - Thanks for this. Up until about 1pm today the direct to aerial TV was without ITV etc. It is set to auto update for everything. Then after 1pm ITV etc were present and after reconnecting the
Amplifier/Distributer they were present on all TVs and videos. I have checked which Channels have strong Signals and Quality and these are C29, C31, C37, C40, C43, and C46. I hope that the change of fortune is permanent and not dependent on the climatic conditions of our current storm!
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Chris.SE8:23 PM
David Levitt:
The current storm is unlikely to have any effect - unless it damages your aerial or downlead!
So it sounds like someone may have visited the transmitter and resolved the problem.
Personally I would turn off auto update of tuning because if there is future "atmospherics" - "Tropospheric Ducting" which sometimes come with High Pressure, which we've has a bit of lately - normally more common in summer - then your set could retune to stronger signals from other regions or foreign stations, or just loose current tuning if the incoming signals just caused strong enough interference.
There aren't any more "multiplex retunes for Chesterfield anyway. The only need to retune is if broadcasters move there channels to different multiplexes - which we've had some of lately, or rename them (some sets will do this automatically anyway - renaming is not technically a retune).
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Monday, 10 February 2020
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David Levitt S18 7WF10:36 AM
Chris.SE:
Thanks for all your help and advice.
Best wishes,
David
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Thursday, 13 February 2020
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Darren6:37 PM
I'm a Local TV Aerial Installer and have noticed since the Retune event on the 5th that in certain areas in Dronfield the CBER readings on CH37 (ITV mux) are very bad and on the edge of Pixellation. I have reported this to Freeview.
Regards
Darren.
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Chris.SE7:47 PM
Darren:
Thanks for your info., good luck with getting Freeview to take any notice, many have tried to report various faults to them in the past, but their front facing staff only seem to be able to tell people how to retune and they don't know the difference between "Tropospheric Ducting" and High pressure!
I have copied your post onto the the Dronfield transmitter page as well.
Also note that at the present time, the site owner has not had the chance to update the list of channels here -
From the 5th Feb.2020 the channels are C31, C37, C29, C43, C46, C40 in the order PSBs 1-3, COMs 4-6.
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Tuesday, 25 February 2020
Further to my comment on 13th Feb, I'm fairly sure that the problem is co channel interference from the Waltham TV Transmitter which is receivable in the affected areas, the common factor being the Multiplex's on CH31 and CH37.
Regards
Darren. DG TV and Aerial Services
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Darren's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Chris.SE9:18 PM
Darren:
And it doesn't look as though the problem will "improve" any with the Waltham retune on the 4th March. C37 remaining unchanged, C31 might be worse as COM6 replaces COM7 which moves to C55.
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