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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, England) transmitter._______
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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Thursday, 3 February 2011
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Paul George8:26 PM
I moved into the BN3 area in October and have had a perfect analogue and digital signal up until about two weeks ago. Since then analogue Channels 4 and 5 suddenly both have a lot of interference. I bought a new freeview recorder today and can now no longer receive ITV1, Channel 4, Channel 5, ITV2, etc. on digital. I tried reconnecting my old freeview box and they have gone from there too. Will this problem be rectified or is there something I need to do (I've tried the obvious reinstalling, etc. but this doesn't seem to have done any good).
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Paul George: Please see Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice - there's definitely no problems with signal as I saw it working only moments ago.
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Saturday, 5 February 2011
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marcob4411:11 AM
Paul George, I agree with you. For the last few weeks the signal has been really bad. Last friday there was a post saying that there would be engineering work for another week. I am in BN42. I just hope they finish their engineering work and then I can retune and get my channels back. (this has happened in the past when there has been engineering work).
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marcob44: There is no engineering work. I'm in BN1 and the signal is just fine.
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Thursday, 17 February 2011
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Rich B12:59 PM
Hove
BBC1, 2, 3 etc went blank approx 6 weeks ago. Deceided not to rescan my BT Vision box just in case it was a temporary glitch but the channels didn't come back. Have now rescanned and they have vanished from the EPG all together. This happens on both my BT Vision box and on the TV tuner. the ariel looks to be in a good state and pointing in the same direction as my neighbours towards Whitehawk. Have tested everything and am certain that it isn't my installation or equipment.
From what I see above this is not an isolated problem but I was wondering if there is any advice that I have perhaps misunderstood, Would changing the RF channel of the BT box make any difference or am I clutching at straws and will just have to be content with an analogue signal until switch over? I live in the BN3 1 area of Brunswick Town
Thanks!
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Rich's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Rich B: There is no problem with multiplex 1 from Whitehawk Hill, it is working perfectly right now.
Yes, you might want to change the RF channel - see the box at the top right for a list of "free RF" channels to use.
Have you done this My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+1, has no sound or the channel line up is wrong | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice yet?
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Rich B4:00 PM
Hove
Thanks Briantist - I'll take another look at that advice and see what happens.
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Rich's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 1 March 2011
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TonyB4:22 PM
Brighton
I have been having a problem recently where I have not been able to get the channels from mux 2 (ITV CH4 etc) from the Whitehawk hill Transmiter. It was ok up until maybe 3 to four weeks ago. I live about a mile from transmitter and can see it from my window.
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TonyB's: mapT's Freeview map terrainT's terrain plot wavesT's frequency data T's Freeview Detailed Coverage
TonyB: There are no faults with the transmitter, so I would see Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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