Full Freeview on the Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, England) transmitter
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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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Wednesday, 5 October 2011
Pogle: There is a transmitter on the Isle of Wight at Rowridge. Sometimes you can't use the "nearest" transmitter because there is, as there is in Kemptown, a massive hill in the way.
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Garth12:03 PM
Seem to have lost all the BBC channels on the Whitehawk Transmitter. Noticed this on the 3rd October 2011
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Pogle12:47 PM
Brighton
OK, I've answered my own question: yes, Stupid, it points the way you'd expect. Not just an assumption. And yes I'm picking up IoW which is 100x more powerful than Whitehawk.
The problem I'd been having was that my Humax was automatically tuning certain channels to Whitehawk and they were very unreliable. I found a way to manually tune everything to IoW.
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Pogle's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
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Richie1:39 AM
Brighton
Further to Steve's comments of 27 Sept and Pogle's last week, I live on Kemp Town seafront BN2 and have noticed significant deterioration in terrestrial Freeview signal since the engineering works were carried out on Whitehawk transmitter last month. Everything had been fine in the 7 years I've lived here. BBC 1 and 2 are now often unwatchable because of freezing or pixellation, or off completely. My Humax PVR says we are receiving Mux 1 (Ch66) with 28% signal strength at 40% quality; Mux 2 (Ch50) at 60%/100%; Mux A (Ch 55) at $0%/100%; Mux B (Ch 48) at 60%/100%; Mux C (Ch58) at 40%/100% and Mux D (Ch61) at 41%/100%. Are these the kind of figures other people in our area are now getting?
I don't know what signal strength we had before because all was well and I didn't need to check! Have retuned PVR several times and checked all indoor cables. I have not yet asked neighbours who share our communal aerial if they are also having problems, but i will, as I suppose it could be aerial-related. But it just seems weird that loads of other people posting here are having similar trouble. Any thoughts
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Richie's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Friday, 14 October 2011
Garth: There was engineering work, I can confirm the services are working now.
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Saturday, 22 October 2011
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MrBester5:59 PM
BBC channels are operating at reduced power (less than ITV mux which was low enough to be affected by any weather condition change) since this engineering work.
Upshot being I now receive so little as to render Freeview pointless. Analogue is also experiencing major interference.
This situation is likely to continue until switchover next March. I've more than half a mind not to pay the licence...
Update: analogue just switched off. No engineering work planned or listed. Words fail me at this point.
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MrBester: I can confirm that I have perfect reception from Whitehawk Hill at this very moment. If you have problems, they will most likely be something to fix "at your end". Please see Freeview reception has changed? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
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MrBester11:10 PM
Analogue briefly returned and then disappeared before your post, at which point I gave up and watched downloaded content Presumably transmission had been restored when you checked. Currently (23:04) there is no analogue or digital broadcast whatsoever - at time of last post I could receive channels on the mux serving. BBC4 / Radio 1 etc.
There is nothing wrong with my multiple tuners, cabling or aerial. Digital UK tried to claim I shouldn't be able to receive anything from Whitehawk earlier today but gave no explanation as to my ability to have done so for years...
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Monday, 24 October 2011
MrBester: You are mixing up the broadcast of a signal with your reception of it. The transmitter is working normally, if you can't get a signal, that doesn't mean the transmitter is not sending you one.
100,000 homes in Brighton and Hove use the transmitter, and only one can't receive a signal from it - the most logical line of reasoning is you have a reception problem.
If you can't figure it out from the help here, there are plenty of companies you can call upon.
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