Full Freeview on the Tunbridge Wells (Kent, England) transmitter
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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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Tunbridge Wells (Kent, England) transmitter._______
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, 25 April 2012
Briantist: There is no SDN shown after switchover.
ArqB is shown as being on C42 after switchover when, according to DUK Tradeview, it is on C41. SDN will be on C42.
Postcode Checker - Trade View
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Monday, 14 May 2012
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John Bates10:38 AM
Thanks Dave. Perhaps an expansion of your response of the "Power up" of levels on the 13th and then the 27th would have been more helpful.
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John Bates: The delay of two weeks will affect ITV3 and the other services carried on the "SDN" multiplex. See here under the heading "After switchover configuration" for those carried on SDN:
Freeview multiplexes | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
The reason for the delay is because the Dover transmitter is currently broadcasting on the same channel/frequency that will be used by TW for SDN after it switches over (Ch42). Dover completes its switchover on 27th June and it is then that it relinquishes use of that channel.
Thus, the interim low power from TW is so as to protect against causing interference to some people who are receiving C42 from Dover.
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Friday, 18 May 2012
Dave Lindsay: Sorry, typo, I had 42 again for COM6, not 41. Should be OK now. Thanks for pointing it out!
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Wednesday, 30 May 2012
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andrew9:09 AM
Tonbridge
I have an internal mobile aerial and had good coverage of bbc channels and also itv 3 cbbc etc. As from last night when retuned as instructed have lost many channels. Is this a transmitter problem and temporary.
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andrew's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
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Melanie Machin9:29 AM
Tunbridge Wells
TN4 9QY
My TV was OK then on 4th June 2012 all the independent channels went 'off line' (after an afternoon of the picture pixelating and becoming unwatchable).
I can only get BBC channels; my next door neighbours seem to have the same problem. I have retuned my set 4 times but with no luck.
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Melanie's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Friday, 15 June 2012
John Simmons
8:59 PM
8:59 PM
Since digital change-over day all channels on COM (MUX) 6 are very weak and breaking up from the Tunbridge Wells transmitter. This is despite the promise of increased power levels and the fact that the signal was perfectly satisfactory before. According to my Humax pvr the signal strength in that ITV4 group is 29% only.
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Saturday, 16 June 2012
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Richard Hawkins4:55 PM
Tonbridge
Transmitter engineering: TN11 8PE
I have an external roof aerial and I have excellent reception of all muxes apart from intermittent breakup of pictures and sound on channel47 being the HD mux.
Signal strength on my Humax box is a steady 75% on all muxes. My panasonic IDTV shows 100%. However the quality indicator drops down from 100% and the BER, which is normally zero jumps to a high value as the picture and sound breaks up.
I have installed a mains power condtioner and switched off all other electrical equipment in the house. It would appear that there is external intermittent interference causing the problem.
Could the transmitter be the source of the sporadic breakups?
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Richard's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jb386:36 PM
Richard Hawkins: Its not entirely impossible for your problem to be connected with the work that's going on at the transmitter site, although only time will tell.
If your TV's aerial input is being looped through the Humax then you could for a test try connecting the aerial directly into the TV thereby by passing the Humax, although 75% on the Humax is quite OK for a level as Humax boxes indications are more in line with what would be expected from a proper signal meter, Panasonics although having excellent tuners having the tendency to give rather over optimistic indications of strength / quality.
Just out of interest what model of Humax are you using?
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Sunday, 17 June 2012
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Richard Hawkins9:42 AM
jb38. Humax HDR Fox T2/1TB. I have tried the HD mux with the Humax fed directly from the aerial and have done the same with he TV.Both show the same intermittent breakups on the HD mux.I have on order a group B passive bandpass filter. This may have no effect on the current problem but will hopefully future proof my set up from any out of band interference.
How can i find out exactly what engineering is being done at the TW transmitter and when it is due to finish? I have an automated reply from BBC Recption which states that intermmittent interference problems will be followed up :) !
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