Full Freeview on the Hannington (Hampshire, England) transmitter
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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._______
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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Hannington 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Hannington transmitter?
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 46km south-southwest (194°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
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?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 18 Apr 2018 | |||||
| E | E | E | B E T | W T | |||||
| C32 | com7 | ||||||||
| C34 | com8 | ||||||||
| C35 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C39 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C40 | SDN | ||||||||
| C41 | SDN | ||||||||
| C42 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C43 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C44 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C45 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C46 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C47 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C51tv_off | _local | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off | ||||||||
| C66 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 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
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Saturday, 18 February 2012
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tony11:59 AM
Farnborough
Just an update on things here since Stage 1
all BBC digital channels fine no breakup.
On the other Muxes nothing received at all but
that I expect will change next week.
Analogue channels are weak especially ch 5
but still usable
Tony
gu14 farnborough
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tony's: mapT's Freeview map terrainT's terrain plot wavesT's frequency data T's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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trevor2:37 PM
tony in gu14
bbc channels ok......after switchover on the 22nd feb, your digital signal should be at least 50% stronger, hopefully
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tony7:40 PM
Farnborough
hi Trevor
SIGNAL Shows on BBC as 80Percent on an old Ant as good as some who have spent loads recently plenty of Vans down our road of late + SKY Virgin
We have large trees all round us with Crystal palace blocked out by a very large 100ft Beech tree dead in line in our front garden Chain saw not an option TPO on it and very observant tree inspector .
Am really pleased so far and hope to see later if the bent metal coat hanger and coax works like it did on Analogue . bit of fun really to try own Antenna .we made our own CB ones and Short wave .
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tony's: mapT's Freeview map terrainT's terrain plot wavesT's frequency data T's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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drh9:42 PM
Digital on Sony Bravia is fine, other than ITV1 etc. breaking up on occasions at night.
Ditto on Matsui with same aerial gives no signal most of the time on all channels so Matsui tuner spec. seems poor. Suppose to be expected from a Curries cheap tat product. Best spend a bit extra and get something that works properly.
Using wideband aerial with masthead amplifier.
Farnborough GU14.
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drh: Have you checked that the Matsui has not picked up Crystal Palace (for which it is giving "no signal" much of the time)?
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Monday, 20 February 2012
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FJC Farrar12:08 PM
Camberley
Can anybody explain the root of the new, bizarre UK MUX names:-
PSB.. - As if there were more than just the BBC
ARQ.. ??
SDN??
Or are they all designed to make things just a little more confusing than say: MXP1 to MXPn for Public, MXC1 to MXCn for commercial with whatever SDN means fitted in somewhere. Or maybe even simpler - just MPX1 to MPXn?
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FJC's: mapF's Freeview map terrainF's terrain plot wavesF's frequency data F's Freeview Detailed Coverage
FJC Farrar: Multiplex names (and services carried on them) before and after switchover are listed here:
DTG :: DTT Services by Multiplex
See also this before and after list on this website:
Freeview multiplexes | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
Post switchover:
PSB1 = "BBC A"
PSB2 = "D3&4"
PSB3 = "BBC B" (HD services, including those of ITV1/STV and C4/S4C)
COM4 = "SDN"
COM5 = "Arqiva A"
COM6 = "Arqiva B"
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FJC Farrar: For a table showing multiplex names before and after switchover, see here:
Digital terrestrial television in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mike Dimmick1:46 PM
FJC: PSB = Public Service Broadcasting. 'Channel 3' (ITV1, STV, UTV) and Channel 5 still have public-service broadcasting requirements as part of their licences to operate. Channel 4 is a state corporation just like the BBC is. The PSB multiplexes are only permitted to carry channels from the public service broadcasters, or from the BBC. (The Rabbit services are the commercial services from the former public teletext licence holder Teletext Ltd. Since they gave up the teletext licence, they should have been booted off.)
COM = Commercial. These multiplexes can carry any channels they like/can lease space to; although Ofcom have to agree to changes in the line-up, they must permit the change unless "the capacity to appeal to a variety of tastes and interests would be unacceptably diminished."
The other names are simply the companies to whom the multiplexes are licensed. D3&4 is short for Digital 3 and 4 Limited, a 50/50 joint venture between ITV Network Limited (itself jointly owned by the 15 regional Channel 3 licence holders - ITV plc now owns 12 of these, STV plc two and UTV one) and Channel 4 Corporation.
SDN Ltd originally stood for S4C Digital Networks. S4C flogged it to ITV plc in 2005.
Arq is short for Arqiva, the transmitter mast owner/operator. It's a meaningless invented name, adopted after the company's previous name, NTL, was destroyed by the cable TV operations (which were demerged).
According to the licences, they are still named 1 (PSB1, BBC A), 2 (PSB2, D3&4), A (COM4, SDN), B (PSB3, BBC B), C (COM5, ArqA), D (COM6, ArqB). The company names are used here to differentiate before and after switchover channel line-ups and modes.
Mux A is a COM and Mux B a PSB because in the 1998 line-up, Mux A was required to carry S4C and Channel 5, with the other half leased to commercial channels, while B was wholly pay-TV along with C and D. When ITV Digital went into administration in 2002, it surrendered the mux B, C and D licences, which were re-auctioned. The BBC and (then) Crown Castle won the beauty contest. Crown Castle's UK transmission operations changed hands again, to National Grid Wireless, before ending up with Arqiva, so you'll see CCI A and CCI B, and NGW A and NGW B, in some older documentation. There wasn't enough space to keep four public-service broadcast multiplexes at all transmitters, so Mux A was changed to commercial status, with S4C and Channel 5 moving to Mux 2/D3&4.
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