Full Freeview on the Heathfield (East Sussex, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Heathfield (East Sussex, England) transmitter which serves 170,000 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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Heathfield (East Sussex, England) mast?
Heathfield transmitter - Heathfield transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 06/01/2025 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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 Heathfield (East Sussex, 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 Heathfield 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 Heathfield (East Sussex, 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 Heathfield transmitter?
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 17km north (6°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Maidstone ME14 5NZ, 41km north-northeast (31°)
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 Heathfield (East Sussex, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 19 Jul 2018 | |||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | W T | W T | W T | K T | |||
| C29 | _local | _local | _local | _local | |||||
| C40 | SDN | ||||||||
| C41 | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | BBCA | |||||
| C42 | SDN | SDN | SDN | ||||||
| C43 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C44 | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | D3+4 | |||||
| C46 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C47 | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||||
| C49tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||
| C52tv_off | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | |||
| C64 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
| C67 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 | 100kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2* | (-18dB) 1.6kW | |
| Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-20dB) 1000W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Heathfield transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldTuesday, 10 December 2024
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Chris.SE7:47 PM
David Young:
Hi. As you may have noticed from the post immediately before yours, there is Planned Engineering at the transmitter at present so that might have been the cause of No signal.
However, you mention you keep getting poor signal, so I'm thinking there maybe something else causing problems, you are only 13km from Heathfield with a clear line of sight. How long has this current problem be going on?
Where is your aerial located - Chimney, Wall bracket, Loft? It should be pointing at compass bearing 348 degrees (that's ~10 degrees N of NNW) with its rods (or squashed Xs) horizontal. Roughly how old is it?
Is the coax for the aerial secure and undamaged?
Do you have any amp/splitter to feed more than one TV?
I hope you did Not retune when you had No Signal, you cannot tune to signals that are not there or can't be decoded. This often just clears the correct tuning.
If you did retune, it may be best to check in your TV tuning section that you are correctly tuned to Heathfield's UHF channels as it's possible it may have tuned to weak and unreliable signals from another transmitter.
In the multiplex order BBCA/PSB1, D3&4/PSB2, BBCB HD/PSB3, SDN/COM4, ArqA/COM5, ArqB/COM6
The UHF channels are C41, C44, C47, C40, C43, & C46
For which TV Channels are carried on which multiplex see
Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview
IF you are incorrectly tuned, it may be best to clear all existing tuning by unplugging the aerial and carrying out an automatic retune (no channels should be found) the reconnect the aerial and then do a manual tune of the correct UHF channels.
Pots back with the details.
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Thursday, 26 December 2024
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Otto1:27 PM
St. Leonards-on-sea
Why are subtitles rarely in sync with speech in live and recorded programmes? By backtracking the image one can sometimes correct this but it doesn't last. What is the connection between the broadcast image and the position of subtitles as they seem to be unconnected? Can this annoying anomaly be corrected?
I use recorded programmes using a HUmax and live Freeview .
Aerial on roof; TN38 0NS; using Heathfield.
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Chris.SE6:39 PM
Otto:
As you have pointed out, this occurs when it's a live broadcast (and recording it will make no difference).
The speech has to be processed by speech to text software (which doesn't always get all the words correct!) and there are inherent delays in that which has always been the case. I'm afraid there are no simple solutions.
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Monday, 6 January 2025
Transmitter engineering
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