Full Freeview on the Heathfield (East Sussex, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Heathfield (East Sussex, England) transmitter which serves 170,000 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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Heathfield (East Sussex, England) mast?
Heathfield transmitter - Heathfield transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 18/11/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels 
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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 Heathfield (East 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 Heathfield 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 Heathfield (East 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 Heathfield transmitter?
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 17km north (6°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Maidstone ME14 5NZ, 41km north-northeast (31°)
to ITV Meridian (East) region - 36 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian plus Oxford
How will the Heathfield (East Sussex, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 19 Jul 2018 | |||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | W T | W T | W T | K T | |||
| C29 | _local | _local | _local | _local | |||||
| C40 | SDN | ||||||||
| C41 | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | BBCA | |||||
| C42 | SDN | SDN | SDN | ||||||
| C43 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C44 | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | D3+4 | |||||
| C46 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C47 | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||||
| C49tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||
| C52tv_off | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | |||
| C64 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
| C67 | 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 30 May 12 and 13 Jun 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 100kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2* | (-18dB) 1.6kW | |
| Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-20dB) 1000W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Heathfield transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldTuesday, 3 July 2012
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Paul12:07 PM
Lewes
I live in Newick, BN8 4LS as do my in laws, same postcode different house number. Since the changeover, the previously fanatsic Freeview signal to both aerials has now degraded, with pictures breaking up and sometimes failing, with a need then to reselect the channel on the remote. Today I did a factory reset on my TV and watched carefully as ot retuned through the various channels to ensure that it was only picking up the channel at the correct points as set out in the manual retune guidance issued for the postcose by digital UK. The moving bar only stopped at those cahnnels picking up stations and moving on. The signal is still breaking up - is this now a case for an aerial retune. Our AE is in the attic and was originally fitted by a an engneer to the best signal using an audible meter. Thanks.
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jb3812:27 PM
kaz: Going by what you had mentioned regarding tuning etc I had a suspicion that a Sony TV might be involved, the tuning facilities in these sets not being very user friendly when it comes to using them for carrying out signal tests on, and if that model takes off as soon as the manual tune channel number is entered "without" actually requiring a second button to be pressed, then its not really of any use for the purpose intended.
However, and although I have serious doubts about the effectiveness of a booster in your mothers type of situation as the level / stability of the drop out channels are not known, but the booster referred to below is one of the best types to use for test purposes by it having a controllable gain level, the only problem being that if it does recover Ch42 & Ch44 when the gain is set to a high level its likely to be at the expense of the BBC / ITV by taking their signal levels over the top and causing blocking.
Still, I will be interested in your findings.
Argos page 650 item number 534/4235 and which doesn't seem to come into the 16 day exclusion clause that applies to quite a number of items, and so if its carefully unwrapped there shouldn't really be any problem with any refund that might be required.
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Paul3:29 PM
Lewes
Paul: Thanks there is a booster in the attic so I will try disconnecting it and seem what happens
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Ian Foord10:30 PM
Newhaven
Well after the 27th i got the SDN multiplex back but still no HD from BBCB on ch47 ?
Is it on low power ? All three sets are 1080p
LG all the other channels are 100% sig n Quality . My BBC mate (news)rang me as he cant get any HD off the Whitehawk hill TX and he lives in Hove .
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Saturday, 7 July 2012
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John Slater4:28 PM
Uckfield
I live in post code TN22 4JX and receive terrestrial TV from the Heathfield transmitter.
I have a tv Link 8 way LoftBox. This failed recently and I was unable to receive signals at all house locations. As the digital switchover was imminent I connected the aerial directly to the tv in the living room temporarily.
The switch over is now complete and all is well and I want to replace the LoftBox and again get TV at all house locations.
I can see from info on the web and elsewhere that the LoftBox does not distribute HD.
My question is does the LoftBox deliver to the master plate in the living room HD signals which can be decoded by the set top box?
HD is required in the living room but other locations are ok for standard format.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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John Slater: What do you distribute (or what did you distribute) using the LoftBox?
The references to distributing HD means that if you have a HD box in one room, you cannot carry the high definition picture to another room using the LoftBox. These does not preclude the reception of Freeview HD in every room using a local receiver (e.g. set-top box or HD TV with built-in Freeview HD receiver).
The purpose of LoftBox is to carry different signals down single cables: DAB, FM, UHF TV (Freeview). Do you do this or do you just use it to distribute TV?
This page might be of interest:
Television Aerial Boosters / Amplifiers, Splitters, Diplexers & Triplexers
Did the device fail before switchover?
At 4 miles you could perhaps have excessive signal levels and thus "may" (perhaps) be able to split the signal quite a few ways without the need for a power booster.
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John Slater8:09 PM
Dave thank you for your input. The loftbox distributes UHF TV, FM and DAB. The box failed before switch over and I am sure it is the box rather than the PSU.
I take it from your post that the loftbox will pump all the necessary signals round the house and I can view HD at each location if I use HD freeview box (at each location)with of course a an HD TV.
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John Slater: You can view HD at each location using a Freeview HD box at each location.
You can't view HD in a bedroom, for example, that is coming from a box situated in the lounge.
So if you wanted to watch HD in the bedroom, you could do so with either a Freeview HD box and HD TV or a TV with in-built Freeview HD tuner.
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Sunday, 8 July 2012
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John Slater10:05 AM
Dave: many thanks.
One last point. In the present set up the aerial goes into the LoftBox and in the living room a splitter is used to feed the signal from the Loftbox down loop to the TV and the return loop to the LoftBox.
As I now have an aerial feed into the living room can I use the splitter to feed the TV and the return loop to the LoftBox? (This was reduce the mucking about in the loft)
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