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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Friday, 23 March 2012
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jb383:22 PM
Andy Jones; You should not really require to do that but by all means try a manual scan on mux Ch51, however if it does not receive any signal then it could point to your LG being only an HD ready set and not fitted with a DVB-T2 tuner which is necessary for HD reception, so either have a look in the user manual / specifications / tuner for DVB-T2 being mentioned or give an update with the model number of the TV in question.
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jb384:22 PM
Andy Jones: Another little point I forgot to mention and which particularly concerns LG Freeview HD TV's, being that some of these HD sets are extremely sensitive to signal overloading problems on the HD channels, with picture break up being seen on HD reception but not on SD channels, or the set not actually picking up HD in the first place, something which "might" be applicable in your case, so if your TV does prove as having a DVB-T2 tuner fitted then the aforementioned could be the reason for your problem.
However I am unable to assess as to whether or not this is likely to apply as you haven't provided a post code which would have been used for signal checking purposes, but should you have any booster in line then by-pass and try another scan on Ch51.
If though there isn't a booster in line and you have access to a set top aerial give the TV a Ch51 scan using that, should it then pick up HD channels you will require an attenuator to be fitted in line with the TV's aerial socket.
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Saturday, 24 March 2012
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Matthew3:54 AM
Since changeover I have good aerial reception from Whitehawk Hill EXCEPT for the mux that provides ITV3, ITV2+1, Quest etc. Why is this, and Is there anything I can do apart from upgrade connections and aerial?
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KMJ,Derby8:11 PM
Matthew: You didn't leave your postcode, so I couldn't do a check on the predicted reception at your location. However, it is significant that C57, which was the old analogue frequency for BBC1 from Whitehawk was not chosen for use by a PSB mux after switchover. This suggests that coverage is not as reliable as that which is obtained from C51 - the frequency chosen instead. I tried a postcode in BN2 which interestingly gave variable reception for C57 and good reception for the other five frequencies. By all means check cables and connectors, also try different positions for the aerial ie raising/lowering as well as side to side locations.
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Monday, 26 March 2012
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Richard Davis10:18 AM
J Green: Thanks for your suggestion. However, I don't need to buy another STB as I already have a Humax Foxsat box which gives me the HD channels. It's just that I expected I'd be able to get them on the Philips TV itself after switchover, and was wondering whether I had a problem with it. As I now know that the TV is working as it should I won't worry any more.
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Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Hi - I posted this a week or so ago but don't think anyone picked up on it. Apologies for posting again - but I'd really appreciate some advice!
I live in a block of flats at BN1 4UJ, which share a common aerial. From the height of the block I'm assuming that the aerial has uninterrupted direct line of sight with the transmitter at Whitehawk (I guess about a mile away).
Prior to DSO we received an adequate signal for all Freeview multiplexes to work perfectly on a 2 year old Toshiba TV (with digital receiver built in).
After the retune at DSO stage 1 we suffered serious picture and sound break-up on the BBCA Mux only (the one that had moved). All the old freeview channels worked fine.
After the retune at DSO stage 2 we now suffer serious picture and sound break-up on all the freeview channels. (Though I should be clear that it tunes in to all of the channels on all of the multiplexes with no problems.)
The Managing Agents in the block say that the signal strength at the amplifier is spot on. I know of some flats which are also suffering the same problems. But there are some other flats (sharing the same aerial) which are unaffected.
Ive tried using a variable in-line attenuator (in case the tuner was being saturated) but I can only degrade the picture/sound quality, not improve it.
Im completely and utterly totally stumped. Advice please!
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Wednesday, 28 March 2012
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Richard Davis12:12 PM
Simon: From what you say it does sound as if the signal is now too strong - the fact that in the interim period you had problems with the new MPX but not the old ones tends to point to this. As you've tried an attenuator in your set's aerial lead without success it sounds as if the distribution amplifier for the block may be overloading, which means that the attenuator needs to go in that amplifier's input. I wouldn't put too much faith in what the managing agents say!
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Simon: I must echo the thoughts of Richard Davis. The fact that reducing the level of the signal going into your tuner does not improve matters suggests that the signals are overloading the amplifier.
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Thanks. Appreciate your responses. And that makes perfect sense.
Any suggestions as to why some flats might not be affected?
My guess is that perhaps there are two distribution amplifiers? I don't know the system.
Don't know how I'm going to convince the mamanaging agents to fix it...
Simon
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Simon's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Jim2:12 PM
Simon: How high are you in the block? Since the power output was increased in the switchover, maybe you coud try an aerial in your flat to tide you over?
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