Freeview Light on the Dronfield (Derbyshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Dronfield (Derbyshire, England) transmitter which serves 1,400 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 Dronfield (Derbyshire, 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 Dronfield (Derbyshire, 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 Dronfield 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 | H max | C39 (618.0MHz) | 189m | DTG- | 2W |
 1 BBC One (SD) Yorkshire, 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 | H max | C42 (642.0MHz) | 189m | DTG- | 2W |
 3 ITV 1 (SD) (Yorkshire (Emley Moor micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) North ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 North ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Yorkshire Emley Moor), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | H max | C45 (666.0MHz) | 189m | DTG- | 2W |
 46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Yorkshire, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Granada), 104 Channel 4 HD North 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 Dronfield (Derbyshire, 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 Dronfield transmitter?
BBC Look North (Leeds) 1.9m homes 7.4%
from Leeds LS9 8AH, 55km north (355°)
to BBC Yorkshire region - 56 masts.
ITV Calendar 1.9m homes 7.4%
from Leeds LS3 1JS, 56km north (353°)
to ITV Yorkshire (Emley Moor) region - 59 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Belmont region
How will the Dronfield (Derbyshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 5 Feb 2020 | |||||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | B E K T | |||||
| C39 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C42 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C45 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | BBCA | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | |||||
| C59tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | |||||
| C62 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C65 | 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 10 Aug 11 and 24 Aug 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 3W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-1.8dB) 2W |
Local transmitter maps
Dronfield Freeview Emley Moor TV region BBC Yorkshire Yorkshire (Emley Moor micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Emley Moor transmitter area
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Tuesday, 26 April 2011
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rich9:20 PM
Dronfield
Hi. We currently use Dronfield and our aerial is V polarization. Will we have to spin it round to H in August when the transmitter moves over to digital? Moreover, will I need a new aerial, given that this one is only a few months old? Thanks in advance.
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rich's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
rich: If you use Dronfield at the moment then your aerial will be horizontal at the moment.
Vertical polarisation means you are using Sheffield or Chesterfield.
You can already get Freeview services from Sheffield.
You do not need a new aerial or to change your existing aerial around at switchover.
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Wednesday, 11 December 2013
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Norman Cook7:27 PM
I live in Norton Sheffield & recieve my signal from the Dronfield transmitter.
Can you tell me what is happening as the signal for ITV 1 , 2 ,4, 5, more 4, E4 & film 4 stopped working at 10.00am today. It came back 2 hours later and has now gone again tonight.
It also effects my next door neighbour.
I have tried retuning the tv and have now lost all the channels from my tv
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Norman Cook: There is engineering works at Emley Moor which might interrupt television broadcasts. We have had reports from people using Emley who've had interruption to ITV etc.
As Dronfield transmitter receives its signal off-air from Emley then maybe at times the signal from Emley isn't good enough for it.
The answer is not to retune because that's just shooting yourself in the foot. It's only compounded the problem!
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Norman Cook: I take back what I said. Dronfield is fed over the air from Chesterfield which is line-fed (phone line) from Emley.
Looking at the spread of the signal from the Dronfield transmitter I'm surprised you can receive it in Norton.
In any case, reception from Crosspool/Tapton Hill would give you all the channels.
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Thursday, 13 February 2020
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Chris.SE7:40 PM
The following post has been copied from the Chesterfield transmitter page.
"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."
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 C39, C42, C45 in the order PSBs 1-3.
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