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 04/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering 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 withheldSaturday, 11 August 2012
Gill Hall: There are six multiplexes in total, each is a single signal on at a particular frequency which carries multiple services.
The services you mention are all on the same multiplex (COM6: ArqB) and therefore carried by the same signal.
It could be that your aerial system needs some adjustment. It may be filtered so as to only allow the frequencies that are used by the transmitter. The COM6 multiplex from Heathfield uses a frequency not used before switchover, so maybe it is the aerial system that is blocking it.
It will be down to whoever is responsible for the aerial system to sort it out. Maybe that is your landlord.
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Thursday, 16 August 2012
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Phil Hopkins1:23 AM
Hello, I would like to receive Sky Sports on Freeview channel 41, but it appears Heathfield does not transmit this. Can anyone please tell me if there are plans to transmit Channel 41 in the near future, I would rather not have to install a satellite dish or go to Virgin Media. Many thanks.
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Adrian Durrant10:32 PM
Excuse me for butting in and admin will correct me if I'm wrong but I think you need to get a top-up TV box
Sky Sports, Sports Packs, Sky Sports 1 & 2 | Top Up TV (BN229DT)
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Phil Hopkins: As Adrian Durrant says, you need Top Up TV, or it is available on BT Vision.
Strictly-speaking, Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 are not available on Freeview. "Freeview" is the brand name for the free-to-air digital terrestrial television (DTT) service. Sky Sports 1 and 2 are carried, encrypted, on the 81 full-DTT transmitters.
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Alan Clark11:11 PM
Hi Phil, If you've got a fairly new TV then you need this adapter CI+ Landing | Top Up TV but you would still have to pay to watch. (BN229BX)
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Friday, 7 September 2012
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peter comer10:59 AM
I live in crowborough with a direct sight of the transmitter. this morning all itv channels channel 4 have gone. I retuned and no luck. all other channels are ther incl. itv 3 and 4.
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peter comer11:02 AM
Crowborough
postcode tn6 1pf. I have an indoor aerial on the kitchen windowsill. So far the reception has been first class.
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peter's: ...
Monday, 10 September 2012
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Jim Flooks1:18 PM
Haywards Heath
RH16 3EF. Haywards Heath area. Roof mounted aerial. Sunday 9th September - intermittent picture freeze/break up on ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. Usual processes followed to no avail. Checked signal strength on menu. BBCA, SDN, ArqA and ArqB rock solid and steady at 95%, D3+4 fluctuating between 95% and 70% with occasional dips below 30%, coinciding with break up. Zero Bit Error Rate. Always steady signal level before. Is there a problem with this multiplexer?
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Jim's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Friday, 14 September 2012
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ci6:13 PM
Haywards Heath
I have been having problems as well with reception (Haywards Heath area) in the past week or two. It comes and goes. ITV, C4 etc goes first (ch 49), then the HD channels (ch 47). This afternoon the bbc channels went as well (ch 52 I think). Could it be weather related?
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ci's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 22 October 2012
Hello Brian.
I`m curious as to why you`ve got Heathfield (post switchover) down as an E group ? Shouldn`t that be B group ?
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