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, 8 February 2012
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Jim2:20 PM
Clare: Whitehawk Mux2 (ITV1, C4 etc.) has been occasionally dodgy here (BN1 5) for many moons, although not too bad in the last few months. We're holding our breaths that the switchover next month will greatly increase the signal!
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Thursday, 9 February 2012
J
jay4:10 AM
Brighton
so as i understand it there will be no bbc2 on whitehawk hill from 7th march.
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jay's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jay4:28 AM
Brighton
I meant analogue bbc2.
So we currently have 6 muxes, after DSO we will have 5 + 1hd one.. can you explain how they will get all these channels from 6 muxes to 5 muxes..
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jay's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
jay: Yes, it says at the top of the page
"Wednesday 7th March 2012
ITV-1 analogue swaps to C63. BBC TWO analogue C60 closes. Multiplex BBCA starts on C60. Multiplex 1 C66 closes. "
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Thanks Brian and Jay for your replies, most appreciated.
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Clare McNeil
1:39 PM
1:39 PM
Sorry meant to say thanks to Brian, Jay & Jim for your replies. Typing too fast for my own good there. As I say they are appreciated as I'm not expert on these things.
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Mike Dimmick6:06 PM
jay: Briantist's links are a bit out-of-date.
Basically, three of the four multiplexes that were changed to a more robust, but lower-capacity, mode in 2002, will return to a higher-capacity mode. Indeed two of them, along with one that didn't change in 2002, will now go to an even higher-capacity mode.
The pattern currently is:
Mux 1, B, C and D: 18 Mbit/s
Mux 2 and A: 24 Mbit/s
Total: 120 Mbit/s
After switchover:
BBC A (Mux 1) and D3&4 (Mux 2): 24 Mbit/s
BBC B (Mux B): DVB-T2, HD, 40 Mbit/s
SDN, ArqA and ArqB (A, C and D): DVB-T 27 Mbit/s
Total (SD): 129 Mbit/s
Total: 169 Mbit/s
The BBC have already cleared nearly everything off Mux B, by closing some services, compressing what was previously on Mux 1 slightly more heavily (though not as much as the other multiplexes), and moving some streams across. What now remains, of the BBC channels, will easily fit in the additional 6 Mbps of space on BBC A after the mode change. BBC Four and CBeebies time-share a slot, BBC Parliament uses a smaller slot (it runs at a lower resolution, if I recall), and each radio station uses about 256 kbps.
Clearing that space gave the BBC the opportunity to sublet some capacity, to allow services that would use the extra space on ArqA or ArqB after switchover to launch early. BT have leased some of the space to carry Sky Sports 1 and 2. These will move to ArqB at switchover.
Channel 5 and S4C have already made their moves from Mux A to Mux 2, that happened in September 2009. No BBC services will now be going to Mux 2.
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Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Chris Panayi
11:59 AM
Brighton
11:59 AM
Brighton
Hi All, I was wondering if anyone has the date Whitehawk Hill starts transmitting H.D. content.
Thanks. Chris.
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Chris's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Chris Panayi: HD services will start at the second stage of switchover on 21st March.
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