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, 20 March 2012
martin: I apologise if my reply was somewhat flippant.
The only thing I will say is that in your general area receivers can sometimes tune to Rowridge instead of Whitehawk. The workaround is to run the automatic tuning scan with the aerial unplugged for the first 50%. This works because Rowridge uses low frequencies and Whitehawk high ones.
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jb388:22 PM
martin: Purely on the issue of your aerial, a simple way to put it is, that if you presently receive your signal from the Whitehawk Hill station then there is absolutely nothing to worry about concerning Freeview HD, as the transmission frequencies used by Whitehawk Hill (inc analogue) has always been in the group C/D aerial reception band, and nothing is changing.
The only thing I would say though is, if come tomorrow you get any hints of picture break up then its almost guaranteed to be caused by an excessively high level of signal being received, as the 4Kw transmitters are only located at only 1 mile away from your code area, so if the aforementioned problem did occur then you would require to fit an attenuator in line with your TV's aerial socket.
I do realise that the BBC mux is already on high power, but I only mention this as HD is more vulnerable to excessive signal level problems, and indeed in some cases can even cut out altogether.
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== REMEMBER NO FREEVIEW TONIGHT AND RETUNE AT 6AM === Switchover "completes" for Southampton, Portsmouth and Brighton | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice ===
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Wednesday, 21 March 2012
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jay12:11 AM
Brighton
6am this morning.. as BBC showing no works on this transmitter set!
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jay's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
jay: Analogue has closed. The BBC system does not show switchover events as faults.
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K.T.4:07 AM
Hi, can anyone tell me the final transmitting power of the Whitehawk Hill transmitter after the second part of the switchover?
Many thanks in advance for any help.
K.T.
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Retuned. Now I have broken picture on all freeview channels (only BBCA was affected before). Do I conclude that excessively high signal is to blame and get myself an attenuator? Seems difficult to believe...
Sadly can only get signal from Whitehawk Hill. Nothing from Rowridge or any repeaters.
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J Green9:28 AM
Retuned, am now getting all the HD channels.
Getting a bitrate error of 200 on the HD channels but that isn't producing any breakup at the moment.
The D3+4 mux has a slightly higher signal strength compared to the BBCA mux.
Weather is nice today so will have to see what happens when the weather is bad.
I use Freesat mainly but have a tv that can record Freeview to a hard drive, so use it as a back up or for channels that are not on Freesat yet, such as Dave and Viva.
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Peter Smith10:12 AM
Brighton
As a public service to the 800 households at Brighton Marina, this is to advise the Freeview channels have been transposed as follows:
BBCA channel 23
D3+4 channel 32
SDN channel 26
ArqA channel 29
ArqB channel 42
BBCB channel 51 (not transposed)
Transposition to lower frequencies was necessary to compensate for dodgy and lossy legacy cabling around the site. Reception from Whitehawk is now very good.
All the advice on this site concerning the Freeview reset procedure is valid and should fix any problems but, in case of difficulty, Marina residents should call the Estates office.
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Peter's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
K.T.: See Freeview on Whitehawk Hill TV transmitter | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
Whitehawk's digital signals will be at 4kW.
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