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Freeview Light on the Chalford Vale (Gloucestershire, England) transmitter

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This transmitter has no current reported problems

The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Chalford Vale (Gloucestershire, England) transmitter. Click to recheck

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The symbol shows the location of the Chalford Vale (Gloucestershire, England) transmitter which serves less than 500 homes.

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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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Chalford Vale transmitter Freeview broadcasts

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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.

MuxAerial positionFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 vertical max
C43 (650.0MHz)146m64QAM 8K 2/3
24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2		3W
Channel icons
1 BBC One West, 2 BBC Two England, 7 BBC Three, 9 BBC Four, 70 CBBC Channel, 71 CBeebies, 80 BBC News, 81 BBC Parliament, 301 301, plus 12 others

PSB2
D3+4
 vertical max
C46 (674.0MHz)146m64QAM 8K 2/3
24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2		3W
Channel icons
3 ITV (West), 4 Channel 4 South ads, 5 Channel 5 Part Network ads, 6 ITV 2, 13 Channel 4+1 South ads, 14 More 4, 28 E4, 33 ITV +1 (West),

PSB3
BBCB
 vertical max
C40 (626.0MHz)146m256QAM 32KE 2/3
40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4		3W
Channel icons
101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 ITV HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, plus 1 others



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The Chalford Vale (Gloucestershire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4Music, 4seven, 5*, 5USA, Al Jazeera English, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, Community Channel, Dave, Dave ja vu, E4+1, Film 4, Food Network, ITV 2 +1, ITV 3, ITV 4, Movie Mix, PICK TV, Quest, Really, RT English , Sky News, The Zone, VIVA, Yesterday.

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.

Regional news from the Chalford Vale transmitter


BBC Points West 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS8 2LR, 42km southwest
to BBC West region - 60 masts.

ITV West Country News (East) 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Bristol BS4 3HG, 41km southwest
to ITV West region - 61 masts.

How the transmission frequencies change over time

years1984-971997-981998-20102010-1327/3/13-2013-18
aerial groupEEEB EB E KB E K
C40 BBCBBBCB
C43ITVITVITVBBCABBCABBCA
C46BBC2BBC2BBC2D3+4D3+4D3+4
700C50C4C4C4BBCB
800C68BBC1BBC1BBC1

orange background for multiplexes names moregreen background for transmission frequencieslilac background for power levels in watts800MHz band: 4G mobile to start in 2013700MHz band: possible 4G in 2019 more600MHz band: new or moved digital TV services more
Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W
Italics for analogue, digital switchover was Wednesdays 24th March and 7th April 2010.

Comparison of old analogue and current digital signal levels

Analogue 1-4 8W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-4.3dB) 3W

History of Channel 3 in the Mendip transmitter area

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Chalford Vale was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.


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