Full Freeview on the Midhurst (West Sussex, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Midhurst (West Sussex, England) transmitter which serves 94,000 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 Midhurst (West Sussex, 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)
The Midhurst (West Sussex, 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 Midhurst 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)
The Midhurst (West Sussex, 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 Midhurst transmitter?
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 51km west-southwest (256°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.6%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 41km west-southwest (248°)
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 Midhurst (West Sussex, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 16 Oct 2019 | |||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | C/D E T | K T | |||
| C29 | SDN | ||||||||
| C33 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C34 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C35 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C36 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C48 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | ||||||
| C54tv_off | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C55tv_off | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | |||
| C56tv_off | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||||||
| C58tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||
| C59tv_off | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ||||||
| C61 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | |||||
| C62 | SDN | ||||||||
| C68 | 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 29 Feb 12 and 14 Mar 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 100kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 10kW | |
| Mux C* | (-16dB) 2.5kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 2kW | |
| Mux D* | (-20dB) 1000W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Midhurst transmitter area
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Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Wednesday, 29 February 2012
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Mick8:28 AM
29/02/12 08.25 Midhurst ch55 (BBCA) has successfully tuned, but ch65 (Mux2) is not there. It is showing some signal strength but no channels. What is happenning ?
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Vic Sullivan9:47 AM
Glad we have Freesat!
The changeover is deplorable with some scheduled stations being received and others not. Guess the support teams will have their work cut out getting Coronation Street for the pensioners!
Is it lack of signal power causing some channels to pixelate and will the signal power be increasing? We have signal boosters on the aerial and was hoping they would not be needed after changeover.
No HD on Freeview and so Freesat is our only option (no cable and no Sky).
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Vic Sullivan: HD services will be broadcast from Midhurst from 14th March. On the same date all other channels will go to their full power, equivalent to that of analogue. At present, only BBC standard definition TV and radio are on their full post-switchover power.
It is possible that your signal boosters could be causing issues, so you would be advised to try removing them.
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Mick: Nothing has happened to multiplex 2 at this stage of switchover. I suggest you try doing a "first time install" again.
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Ian Hargreaves10:04 AM
I have no Itv1, channel 4 & channel 5 all other channels have retuned ok. Any reason why these have not retuned?
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Vic Sullivan: The published schedule for changes, as it has been at about 900 other masts so far, has two stages, two weeks apart.
This is to allow people who "forgot" to buy a Freeview box a couple of weeks to get to Argos.
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Ian Hargreaves: These have no changed get, but you might have to do a "first time install" on your box to get all the services on the correct channel numbers.
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Thursday, 1 March 2012
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FrustratedinHorsham7:54 PM
Horsham
So switchover seems to have happened but I cannot get any of the channels listed under C or D
I really do not understand why these no longer work - tried to use the channels & frequencies quoted here but it doesnt pick up new channels.
Why oh why is this digital switchover so complicated? I thought the whole point is to make things easier...not harder! This has been an annoying & frustrating day. Still isnt it great to see my licence fee is put to such good use...
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FrustratedinHorsham's: mapF's Freeview map terrainF's terrain plot wavesF's frequency data F's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jb3811:06 PM
FrustratedinHorsham; The trade view reception predictor indicates that you should be able to receive all multiplexes but "only" from March 14th when switchover stage 2 takes place, this event requiring a re-tune.
The other point I noticed is that ArqB (Ch50) will be remaining on low power (1Kw) until October before it increases to 10Kw the same as the other commercial muxes, and although it is indicated as "good" for your area whether in reality it will or not is something that will have to be seen.
By the way the licence fee is not connected in any way to the purely commercial multiplexes such as SDN / ArqA / ArqB.
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