Full Freeview on the Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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The symbol shows the location of the Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, England) transmitter which serves 96,000 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, 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 Whitehawk Hill 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, 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 Whitehawk Hill transmitter?
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 43km northeast (36°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.6%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 80km west (274°)
to ITV Meridian (South Coast) region - 39 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian plus Oxford
How will the Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 16 Oct 2019 | ||||
VHF | C/D E | E | E | C/D E T | W T | ||||
C2 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
C34 | ArqA | ||||||||
C35 | C5waves | C5waves | D3+4 | ||||||
C36 | BBCB | ||||||||
C40 | _local | ||||||||
C48 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
C51tv_off | BBCB | ||||||||
C53tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | D3+4 | |||||
C54tv_off | LBN | ||||||||
C56tv_off | ArqA | ||||||||
C57tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | SDN | SDN | ||||
C60tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -BBCA | BBCA | ||||
C63 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
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 7 Mar 12 and 21 Mar 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-4 | 10kW | |
Analogue 5 | (-3dB) 5kW | |
SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-4dB) 4kW | |
Mux B* | (-10dB) 1000W | |
Mux 2*, Mux C*, Mux D*, LBN | (-14dB) 400W | |
Mux 1*, Mux A* | (-17dB) 200W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Whitehawk Hill transmitter area
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Monday, 25 March 2024
Transmitter engineering
9:04 AM
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Whitehawk Hill transmitter - Whitehawk Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 25/03/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 1 April 2024
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
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Whitehawk Hill transmitter - Whitehawk Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 01/04/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Transmitter engineering
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Whitehawk Hill transmitter - Whitehawk Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 01/04/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 8 April 2024
Transmitter engineering
5:10 AM
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Whitehawk Hill transmitter - Whitehawk Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 08/04/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]
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Transmitter engineering
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Whitehawk Hill transmitter - Whitehawk Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 08/04/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]
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Transmitter engineering
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Whitehawk Hill transmitter - Whitehawk Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 08/04/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Tuesday, 9 April 2024
Hi there,
How often should we re-cycle our TV receivers to make sure we have all the correct stations?
Bets regards,
Mike
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StevensOnln111:38 PM
Mike Startup: Do you mean retune? Many TVs will update their channel list automatically without needing to do anything. If yours doesn't, you would only need to retune if any new channels launch or any existing channel moves multiplex, which is down to contractual agreements between channels and multiplex operators, there is no regular day for changes.
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Chris.SE11:50 PM
Mike Startup:
I presume you mean "Retune". The general answer to which is infrequently !
As a general rule, the only things that change these days is when some of the smaller commercial operators change/remove/add channels on one of the three COM multiplexes - SDN, ArqA & ArqB.
If you receive from a Relay transmitter (Freeview Light) which only has the PSB multiplexes, these are unlikely to change. Whitehawk Hill has all 6 multiplexes and a Local multiplex (which you may or may not get depending on postcode).
See Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview for which TV channels are carried on which multiplex.
You should only need to retune when you see a pop-up message on one of these minor commercial channels telling you it's changed, or when there's been a new one added (see the aforementioned list).
Be careful about retuning if the transmitter is subject to Planned Engineering (which this one is at present - see top of page) and do NOT retune if channels you normally get say No Signal or are badly pixellated - this will often just clear your correct tuning - you cannot tune to signals that are not there or cannot be decoded.
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Monday, 15 April 2024
Transmitter engineering
5:10 AM
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Whitehawk Hill transmitter - Whitehawk Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 15/04/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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