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The symbol shows the location of the Margate (Kent, England) transmitter which serves 9,400 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 Margate (Kent, England) transmitter.

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name
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Which Freeview channels does the Margate 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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
C33 (570.0MHz)86mDTG-200W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) South East, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 16 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
C51 (714.0MHz)86mDTG-200W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian (East micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Meridian south coast), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C53 (730.0MHz)86mDTG-200W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South East, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels

The Margate (Kent, 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 Margate transmitter?

regional news image
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 84km west-southwest (249°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
regional news image
ITV Meridian News 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Maidstone ME14 5NZ, 61km west-southwest (258°)
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 Margate (Kent, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20122012-1316 Oct 2019
A K TA K TA K TB C/D E TW T
C22BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves
C25ITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves
C28BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves
C32C4wavesC4wavesC4waves
C33BBCA
C39SDN
C42ArqA
C48ArqB
C50tv_offBBCA
C51tv_offD3+4D3+4
C53tv_offBBCBBBCB

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 13 Jun 12 and 27 Jun 12.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

BBCA, D3+4, BBCB 200W
Analogue 1-4(-10dB) 20W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Dover transmitter area

Aug 1958-Jan 1992Southern Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992Television South (TVS)
Jan 1993-Feb 2004Meridian
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Margate 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.

Comments
Saturday, 24 August 2013
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Col stjj
11:36 AM
Margate

Dave G/jb38,

I have just caught up with the posts on here as i am away at the moment, but can confirm (after phoning home that they have now got C53 back Yippee!!!) Many thanks to you both for your tips/advice as i am no engineer and appreciated your help.
Just one question ? what`s an exciter & what does it do!

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jb38
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3:44 PM

Col stjj: The exciter is effectively a low powered RF transmitter that is used to drive the high powered output stages of the main transmitter, all high powered transmitters work in this manner.

I will say though, that if indeed this was the full reason for the problem and not an abbreviated version, then this could account why no complaints were noticed from viewers other than from around the Margate area and being due to the fact that the Dovers HD signal would still have been receivable in locations closer to the transmitter, the Margate transmitters on top of Invicta House dropping out when they could not and the reason for zero signal on the Ch53 manual entry test.

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Thursday, 29 December 2016
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Guy Tomlinson
4:13 PM

Why can't I get eny of the BBC channel I live in acol Birmingham can you help

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MikeP
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4:24 PM

Guy Tomlinson:

To stand any chance of helping you we need to know your full post code.

You say you live in 'acol Birmingham', wherever that is. If you are served from Sutton Coldfield, as is most of the West Midlands, then you have posted on the wrong section. If, however, you are served from the Margate transmitter then it has engineering work at present which can result in periods without signals - so DO NOT RETUNE.



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Wednesday, 3 August 2022
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Chris.SE
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2:54 PM

All:

Just to update information here, Margate is longer a "Light" transmitter and has transmitted all six multiplexes as an SFN with Dover since October 2019.

In the multiplex order BBCA/PSB1, D3&4/PSB2, BBCB HD/PSB3, SDN/COM4, ArqA/COM5, ArqB/COM6 -
The UHF channels you should be tuned to are C33, C35, C36, C39, C42, & C48
A Group K aerial is required (though Group T/Wideband should suffice depending on location, in strong signal areas some may get away with some Group B aerials, but not recommended).

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