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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Tuesday, 14 February 2012
J
jo8:03 PM
Hove
I had problems with downstairs tv .built in Freeview.set ...pixillating, no signal and missing channels every now and again ...I did all the checks and before going to any great expense..I got a new aerial cable for £4.00 and HEY PRESTO ...missing channels returned, pixillating stopped ...and all has been well for 8 months.
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jo's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jb388:50 PM
jo: That's good news then! although with you being located at about only 4 miles or so away from the transmitter you will now need to hope that your signal isn't just that little bit too good come March 7th when Whitehawk Hill switches over to higher powered operation, that is from its present ERP of 200watts up to 4Kw, as an overpower-full signal can also cause problems in the receiving equipments tuner, symptoms of being exactly the same as to a weak one.
Easily rectified though simply by the with addition of an attenuator (£4.00 or so) in line with the aerial socket of the TV.
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jb388:59 PM
jo: Just to clarify, when I mentioned 200watts I was referring to BBC & SDN (ITV3 etc) as the other muxes already range from 400w to 1KW. (Mux B BBC4 / CBeebies etc)
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Sunday, 19 February 2012
M
Mike2:09 PM
Is there a problem with MUX A this Sunday afternoon? There does not seem to be any signal from it.
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Mike2:33 PM
Hi Brian, It would seem that there is an output on MUX A, but at a VERY LOW ERP level. I am receiving programs now and again but very broken up
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Tuesday, 21 February 2012
Chris Panayi
11:13 AM
Brighton
11:13 AM
Brighton
Dave! Thanks for the date of the HD startup at Whitehawk Hill. You're a gentleman and a scholar.
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Chris's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 4 March 2012
J
Jon6:15 PM
Worthing
Reset both of my freeview boxes and no signal found at all was work for about 10mis last night and had nothing today
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Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Wednesday, 7 March 2012
J
jay12:53 AM
All analogue and digital down from whitehawk hill (or at least are in our place)
Didn't think this was due to start until 6am
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KT12:56 AM
it's 12.54 am in brighton on the morning of the 7th march and there is no freeview at all,
I keep rescanning but theres nothing. How long does the switchover take?
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