Full Freeview on the Tunbridge Wells (Kent, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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The symbol shows the location of the Tunbridge Wells (Kent, England) transmitter which serves 53,000 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.
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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 Tunbridge Wells (Kent, 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 Tunbridge Wells 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 Tunbridge Wells (Kent, 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 Tunbridge Wells transmitter?
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 5km south-southwest (205°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Maidstone ME14 5NZ, 21km northeast (53°)
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 Tunbridge Wells (Kent, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 19 Jul 2018 | |||
B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | K T | |||
C29 | SDN | ||||||||
C31 | ArqA | ||||||||
C37 | C5waves | C5waves | ArqB | ||||||
C39 | _local | ||||||||
C41 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | BBCA | ||
C42 | SDN | +SDN | +SDN | ||||||
C44 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | D3+4 | ||
C47 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | ||
C49tv_off | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||||
C51tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | _local | _local | _local | |||
C52tv_off | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA |
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 30 May 12 and 13 Jun 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-4 | 10kW | |
Analogue 5, SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-4dB) 4kW | |
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-20dB) 100W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Tunbridge Wells transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldWednesday, 6 April 2011
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Bruce Goodhart8:19 PM
Tonbridge
Can anyone confirm if Mux 2 has the weakest signal. Can't seem to get a decent reception in Tonbridge today.
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Bruce's: mapB's Freeview map terrainB's terrain plot wavesB's frequency data B's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 7 April 2011
Friday, 8 April 2011
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Bruce Goodhart8:57 AM
Tonbridge
Briantist, I don't think I own any devices that could be causing interference. Is it possible the signal from my pc's broadband is causing interference? Mind you, since our aerial was changed I was able to receive all the freeview channels with no problems - the problem started this week so the only thing I can think that has changed is the strength of the signal on Mux 2
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Bruce's: mapB's Freeview map terrainB's terrain plot wavesB's frequency data B's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Saturday, 9 April 2011
Bruce Goodhart: You might need to look at Freeview intermittent interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice also.
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Bruce Goodhart6:45 PM
Tonbridge
To be honest unless the upstairs flat has a games console on all the time which is causing single frequency interference I think the signal to Mux 2 has dropped so much that we would need a wide-band aerial upgrade which would require the permission of our apathetic freehold company. Just a bit fed up with this as for several months its been a good signal on all multiplexes and now this week I've lost one entire multiplex
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Bruce's: mapB's Freeview map terrainB's terrain plot wavesB's frequency data B's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Bruce Goodhart7:29 PM
Tonbridge
I think the phrase is ARGH! Just moved my booster 2 inches back and got the signal back.
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Bruce's: mapB's Freeview map terrainB's terrain plot wavesB's frequency data B's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 12 May 2011
I have just moved closer to the transmitter and have now lost 2 MUX's and all the other channels are breaking up.
I have tried 3 different aerials and has made no difference at all.
Old place was 5km from transmitter new place is 3km from transmitter.
Theses are my siganl info:
MUX 1 : RF CH55
Signal 81:83:88
Quality 100:100:100
MUX 2: RF CH61
Signal 87:89:94
Quality98:98:99
MUX B : RF CH45
Signal 72:72:73
Quality 0:2:12
lRF CH 42
Signal 74:74:76
Quality 0:0:0
MUX C RF CH39
Signal 94:94:95
Quality 0:0:0
MUX D RF CH59
Signal 82:85:90
Quality 59:95:100
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Forgot to to say at old place I had all TV channels and not once did it break up.
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Postcode is TN4 9XW
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