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The symbol shows the location of the Hannington (Hampshire, England) transmitter which serves 470,000 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 Hannington (Hampshire, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Hannington 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
 H max
C45 (666.0MHz)362mDTG-50,000W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) South, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others

PSB2
D3+4
 H max
C42 (642.0MHz)362mDTG-50,000W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian/Central (Thames Valley 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
 H max
C39+ (618.2MHz)362mDTG-50,000W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South, 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

COM4
SDN
 H -3dB
C40 (626.0MHz)362mDTG-825,000W
Channel icons
20 U&Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 U&Dave ja vu, 58 ITV3 +1, 59 ITV4 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 91 WildEarth, 93 ITVBe +1, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 251 Al Jazeera English, 255 FRANCE 24 (in English), 265 Rok Sky +1, plus 29 others

COM5
ArqA
 H -3dB
C43 (650.0MHz)359mDTG-825,000W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 U&Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 U&Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 &UYesterday +1, 76 That's TV 2 MCR, 233 Sky News, plus 13 others

COM6
ArqB
 H -3dB
C46 (674.0MHz)359mDTG-825,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 U&W, 27 U&Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 63 GREAT! romance mix, 73 HobbyMaker, 75 That's 90s, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

DTG-8 64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Hannington transmitter?

regional news image
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 46km south-southwest (194°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
regional news image
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 48km south (179°)
to ITV Meridian/Central (Thames Valley) region - 15 masts.
Thames Valley opt-out from Meridian (South). All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian+Oxford

How will the Hannington (Hampshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20122012-1318 Apr 2018
EEEB E TW T
C32com7
C34com8
C35C5wavesC5waves
C39BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves+BBCBBBCB
C40SDN
C41SDN
C42ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C43ArqA
C44ArqA
C45BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCA
C46ArqB
C47ArqB
C51tv_off_local
C55tv_offcom7tv_off
C56tv_offCOM8tv_off
C66C4wavesC4wavesC4waves

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 8 Feb 12 and 22 Feb 12.

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

Analogue 1-4 250kW
Analogue 5(-6.2dB) 60kW
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 50kW
com7(-8.3dB) 36.7kW
com8(-9.8dB) 26.2kW
SDN, ARQA, ARQB(-10dB) 25kW
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*(-11dB) 20kW
Mux C*, Mux D*(-14dB) 10kW

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

Aug 1958-Jan 1992Southern Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992Television South (TVS)
Jan 1993-Dec 2006Meridian
Dec 2006-Feb 2009ITV Thames Valley
Feb 2009-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. Hannington 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
Monday, 24 January 2011
G
GStrickland
7:39 PM
Andover

Mike,

Indeed Ofcom do have the authority (if that's the right word) to request owners of any faulty equipment to have it fixed.

I guess we should have taken note that all the immediate neighbours have satellite dishes - and now we know why. It just didn't occur to us to ask about the TV signal strength when viewing the house!

The signal strength was measured by the Ofcom engineer both within the house and outside in the road. In both locations the strength was between 33% and 37% and way below what he expected for the area. He explained that with the signal strength so low there was insufficient headroom in the signal and therefore it would be prone to even the very slightest of interference.

Without a very significant increase of the signal strength - and thus more headroom in the signal, our viewing of analogue and digitial TV just isn't possible where we are.

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Tuesday, 1 February 2011
D
David Edwards
11:04 AM

Yesturday all day and evening very poor digital signal. Impossible to watch had to use analoque. Can you please let me know the problem and when it will be repaired?

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David Edwards's 1 post EU flag
Briantist
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12:55 PM

David Edwards: Please see Freeview reception has changed? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice - it will be fixed when you find the problem and fix it.

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Wednesday, 2 February 2011
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Andy_R
1:32 PM

@David Edwards: I've been having the same problem - everything just seems to be coming and going. i re-scanned the frequencies and it then dropped out ITV channels. Rescan later on in the day and i loose them but gain BBC. Stations that previously had good (ish) signal quality & strength (like 6 or 7/10) are now really low (1/10).

Anyone got any ideas? We somtimes get iffy reception, but never this bad or on this many channels...

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Monday, 7 February 2011
M
Mike Dimmick
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

2:28 PM

Brian: I notice you haven't picked up Ofcom's change in their version 2.0 document for Meridian. Due to the release of channels 61 and 62, channels 39 and 40 are no longer going to be released. They have therefore moved BBC B to C39 (which is a current analogue channel) from C51 (which isn't).

Ofcom revised every existing document on 5 January 2011:

Ofcom | Digital Switchover Transmitter Details

You can still find some of the old documents at Digital UK's almanac page:


Transmitter Network - Digital UK Almanac
(RG47SH)

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Briantist
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2:30 PM

Mike Dimmick: I have not yet had the opportunity to go though all the document yet. Sorry, but people keep asking questions.

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Thursday, 10 February 2011
L
Lodge
8:11 PM

We live in South Ham Basingstoke we have a freeview box as do quite a few neighbours. We are all experiencing problems with broken picture on many channals. Why is this happening please? This seems to happen after 5pm each day but is fine during the day.

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Lodge's 1 post GB flag
Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

9:27 PM

Lodge: Please see Freeview intermittent interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice - if the same thing happens at the same time as your neighbours then it could be something common to you all, such as faulty streetlight.

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Saturday, 5 March 2011
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P Stonehouse
7:42 PM
Basingstoke

Live in the North Popley, Basingstoke and receiving poor signal on ITV channels.Very stong on BBC.

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