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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Friday, 13 January 2012
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Dave Rogers1:39 PM
Dave L,
Yes, Freeview carries the main BBC radio channels and seemingly in better quality than DAB (in fact I recently sold my DAB hifi tuner on *Bay). I listen to R4 and Planet Rock on my DAB portables around my home but have always prefered R3 on FM, even in the kitchen.
That is my other gripe at the moment: FM from Newhaven is appalling and has been for a few weeks now..
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012
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Laura7:49 PM
I've only just got round to looking this up now as someone at work said they've been having problems (I just assumed I had a duff freeview box, although it had worked well since I got it last Jan)...
For the last few months I've had no BBC1, 2 or 3, 5* or 5 USA. They come up in my menu, and the TV guide displats but there's no signal. Do I just have to wait until switch-over?
This is really annoying considering I'm mainly missing the BBC which are the only channels its mandatory to pay for!
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Thursday, 26 January 2012
Laura: Please see Freeview reception has changed? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice - the transmitter is operating normally.
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Friday, 27 January 2012
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David C12:22 PM
Bognor Regis
No question - just useful info. if others have my problem. Watching Freeview from Whitehawk on 5-yr old Toshiba 32WLT66, got message on screen last night inviting me to do a software upgrade. Accepted invite only to find myself in a loop where set couldn't find upgrade and just defaulted back to the original message repeatedly. Toshiba tell me it is an upgrade from another manufacturer that is confusing my set. Solution (which I'd discovered for myself) is to switch off the auto-upgrade option in the features menu.
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David's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
David C: Someone else has posted a message about an issue with a Toshiba set giving notification of updates:
Freeview on Selkirk TV transmitter | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
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Saturday, 28 January 2012
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lee jackson10:46 PM
Hastings
hi my post code is tn37 7eq and i have picked up this transmitter dose that meen i will switchch on 7th march
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lee's: mapL's Freeview map terrainL's terrain plot wavesL's frequency data L's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 29 January 2012
lee jackson: I'm sorry to say that you are predicted to actually be unable to receive Freeview after switchover.
At the moment, you have a very good service from Hastings, not Whitehawk Hill.
However, according to predictions you will, start finding your channels start going in March and are actually almost all off from the last day of May.
I would sort out yourself a Freesat dish and receiver as soon as you can.
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KMJ,Derby10:14 AM
lee jackson: If I could add to what Brian posted above. You might still desire the COM muxes on Freeview. If so there are a couple of possibilities shown, albeit with variable reception. After 13th June 2012 you might find Heathfield will give acceptable reception (aerial pointing WNW with rods set for horizontal polarisation). Also after 27th June 2012 Bluebell Hill is also possible, for the COM muxes only. Aerials need to point 10 degrees W of N, again set for horizontal polarisation. The problem with your reception from Hastings, incidentally, is the signal from Crystal Palace will be using the same frequencies. If you can find a position for the aerial where CP is nulled out you could find that Hastings is actually possible, you just need a lot of time and patience to try out the various options. Hastings is vertically polarised, CP is horizontal.
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lee jackson: See this posting from one of your neighbours (at TN35 5EE):
Freeview on Heathfield TV transmitter | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
She has had an aerial fitted for Heathfield. It won't provide her with Freeview until switchover. The obvious question being asked was why can't Hastings be used when it is OK now? (TN35 5EE)
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lee jackson2:47 PM
Hastings
Briantist i just went to the digital uk web site and it says good now and when i switch on hastings and Heathfield i was just sayin at the moment i can get it from Whitehawk Hill
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lee's: mapL's Freeview map terrainL's terrain plot wavesL's frequency data L's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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