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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?

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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.

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

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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
Friday, 8 April 2011
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kieran r
sentiment_satisfiedBronze

11:37 AM
Birmingham

ok my freeview box keeps comeing up saying no signal and is having problems with gulliford to i have upgraded my cables and aerial and mabe the digi box to


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Saturday, 9 April 2011
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Mike Dimmick
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3:18 PM
Reading

I've checked out the work that's been going on. Analogue services have returned to the new main antenna, and the temporary analogue antenna has been removed. The radio antennas that were removed to allow the temporary to be fitted have been replaced.

The radio panels and the site of the temporary aerial are directly below the digital panels, so it's possible power was reduced while this was being done.

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Sunday, 10 April 2011
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john burch
7:32 PM
Wokingham

Over the last week my signal on channel 50 from Hannington deteriorates during the day, all other channels are perfect and all have been perfect since last September/October, i.e during the winter. My postcode is RG40 4PT, is this caused by spring & trees blossoming & if so why only this channel

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Mike Dimmick
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11:22 PM
Reading

john burch: The clear conditions have allowed signals to bounce off the atmosphere that normally would be blocked by the terrain and the horizon. It's likely to be strong analogue signals from Sutton Coldfield or from Dover.

Your prediction is currently for poor coverage. This is because Hannington currently transmits very little signal to the east, in order to protect Guildford's analogue coverage (the digital signals at Hannington use the same channels as the analogue signals from Guildford). The situation should improve dramatically at switchover, as services move to the main antenna, which broadcasts in all directions - the probability of good reception rises from 34% to 96%, 98% by the end of 2012.

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Wednesday, 13 April 2011
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TVTUNER
9:10 PM

I have noticed that the analogue time code from the BBc has stuck on 27th march 2011.

Those that still have analogue recording equipment are finding that their 'auto clock' function is setting them to the wrong date.

I have checked a couple of machines on Crystal Palace and they don't seem to have the same problem.

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Thursday, 14 April 2011
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Francis Farrar
sentiment_satisfiedBronze

6:37 PM
Camberley

MUX 2 Hannington & Crystal Palace both exhibit reasonable signal levels but very high bit error rates - suspect the common signals feeding these multiplexes are faulty in both instances. The result of this is that reception from these multiplexes is likely to be poor except close to the transmitters.

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Mike Dimmick
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7:26 PM

Francis Farrar: The signals feeding these transmitters are *not* common. They carry different regional variations of ITV1 and ITV1 +1, and different adverts on C4 and C5.

High bit error rates are simply because there is terrain blocking clear line of sight to Crystal Palace, and Hannington's low-power DTT radiation pattern is heavily restricted to the east - to protect Guildford's analogue coverage area (it uses the same channels).

At switchover, Hannington services will move to the omnidirectional antenna at the top of the mast.

Digital UK's postcode checker actually shows no prediction for you from Hannington until switchover starts, and poor on most multiplexes from Crystal Palace (the others show no prediction).

There's nothing wrong with the transmissions: you're just not in the coverage area.

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Saturday, 16 April 2011
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Mark G
7:11 PM
Camberley

I am in Camberley, and despite this being theoretically out of range, with a quality amplified roof antenna I had near-perfect reception on all muxes from 2007 until last month. I assume something has changed during the recent maintenance - certainly Mux 2 is now unavailable for me, and even Mux 1 (the strongest I have) is not perfect.

I am hopeful that there is still something happening that will be 'corrected' soon, otherwise it will be a long wait until the switchover...


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Sunday, 17 April 2011
Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

8:07 AM

Mark G: You should get Mux 1 and A OK until switchover, but you will not get a decent service until Wednesday 22nd February 2012 and even then you are going to have to wait for 4th April 2012 for the commercial multiplexes to be at full power.

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