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The symbol shows the location of the Hannington (Hampshire, England) transmitter which serves 470,000 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 Hannington (Hampshire, England) mast?

Hannington transmitter - Hannington transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 25/03/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels Digital tick


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Which Freeview channels does the Hannington transmitter broadcast?

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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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 H max
C45 (666.0MHz)362mDTG-50,000W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) South, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others

PSB2
D3+4
 H max
C42 (642.0MHz)362mDTG-50,000W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian/Central (Thames Valley micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Meridian south coast),

PSB3
BBCB
 H max
C39+ (618.2MHz)362mDTG-50,000W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

COM4
SDN
 H -3dB
C40 (626.0MHz)362mDTG-825,000W
Channel icons
20 Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 Dave ja vu, 58 ITVBe +1, 59 ITV3 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 78 TCC, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 89 ITV4 +1, 91 WildEarth, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 267 Al Jazeera English, plus 30 others

COM5
ArqA
 H -3dB
C43 (650.0MHz)359mDTG-825,000W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 Yesterday +1, 75 That's 90s, 233 Sky News, plus 11 others

COM6
ArqB
 H -3dB
C46 (674.0MHz)359mDTG-825,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 W, 27 Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! romance, 56 That's TV (UK), 61 GREAT! movies extra, 63 GREAT! romance mix, 71 That’s 60s, 73 HobbyMaker, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

DTG-8 64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Hannington transmitter?

regional news image
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 46km south-southwest (194°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
regional news image
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 48km south (179°)
to ITV Meridian/Central (Thames Valley) region - 15 masts.
Thames Valley opt-out from Meridian (South). All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian+Oxford

How will the Hannington (Hampshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20122012-1318 Apr 2018
EEEB E TW T
C32com7
C34com8
C35C5wavesC5waves
C39BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves+BBCBBBCB
C40SDN
C41SDN
C42ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C43ArqA
C44ArqA
C45BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCA
C46ArqB
C47ArqB
C51tv_off_local
C55tv_offcom7tv_off
C56tv_offCOM8tv_off
C66C4wavesC4wavesC4waves

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 8 Feb 12 and 22 Feb 12.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4 250kW
Analogue 5(-6.2dB) 60kW
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 50kW
com7(-8.3dB) 36.7kW
com8(-9.8dB) 26.2kW
SDN, ARQA, ARQB(-10dB) 25kW
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*(-11dB) 20kW
Mux C*, Mux D*(-14dB) 10kW

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Hannington transmitter area

Aug 1958-Jan 1992Southern Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992Television South (TVS)
Jan 1993-Dec 2006Meridian
Dec 2006-Feb 2009ITV Thames Valley
Feb 2009-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Hannington was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

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Friday, 24 August 2012
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tim
sentiment_satisfiedBronze

5:56 PM

Thanks dave

Sorry for missing out my postcode

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tim
sentiment_satisfiedBronze

11:25 PM

Ive had a look. I do have a digital recorder, but turning this on or off makes no difference (it does contain a digital tuner so it would be a bit odd if it was the problem). My video player is not ever on unless its in use. It also seems to make no difference whether the freesat box is on or off. As such while it still could well be interference, I am not sure what with

Interestingly, currently it is not picking the multiplex up at all at the moment(the channels just disappeared from the lineup last time I did a scan). I don't know why it is doing it, would be nice to have the channels, but it appears for some unexplained reason it is unavailable where I live.

Anyway thanks for your help

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Saturday, 25 August 2012
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RichardS
5:45 PM

Tim:

Like Mark Fletcher, I'd suspect single channel interference. Some further thoughts/questions which might shed some light...

Does your digital recorder also exhibit the same problem (fine on all channels except those from ArqB - C47)?

Have you tried turning off every other electrical appliance in your house including portable/mobile phones (but not the TV !) to see if the problem disappears?

Google's satellite picture of your postcode suggests that many of your neighbours are also using Freeview from Hannington with similar aerials, do they have the same problem?

What sort of signal strength/quality are you getting on each of the other multiplexes, and on C47 when it's working OK?

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Monday, 27 August 2012
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Beryl foote
9:17 AM

Richard S

Sorry yes I haven't had any further problems so it must have been atmospherics.
One thing though the digital radio (on its own integral aerial) was working at the time that I lost the tv transmission.

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jb38
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

8:00 PM

Beryl foote: Yes, but digital radio uses far lower frequencies to that used by Freeview, and as such is not affected in the same way by the atmospheric induced problems that Freeview is prone to suffering from.

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Tuesday, 28 August 2012
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Richard Knight
12:37 PM
Bracknell

Hi -

I'm in Bracknell - quite high with a good line of sight towards Hannington.

My aerial currently points towards Crystal Palace, but I've had a 3-storey block of flats built next-door, directly in line with Crystal Palace, which has reduced the quality of my signal.

Would you advise re-aligning my aerial towards Hannington?
The distances are similar, but I've noticed that Hannington is a far less powerful transmitter!

Many Thanks - Richard Knight


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Dave Lindsay
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12:52 PM

Richard Knight: If your aerial is a Group A (red tip) which it may be (for Crystal Palace), then this won't really be suited to Hannington, which uses all Group B channels. If it is a wideband aerial, then you may be able to realign it on Hannington.

See:

Aerials, TV Aerial and Digital Aerial

If you have line-of-sight to Hannington at 22 miles then it would be expected to be OK.

A DM Log or Log 40 should do. See:

ATV`s Choice Of Aerials for digital TV

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Dave Lindsay's 5,724 posts GB flag
Monday, 3 September 2012
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tim
sentiment_satisfiedBronze

8:11 PM

It appears you are right about the interference problem, though it appears to be intermittent. I lost all channels I was having problems with (we had a power cut).

I put the laptop on standby, and did a rescan on the tv (having done one without changing anything)- magically I got the missing channels, however the same does not work for our freeview recorder.

As a test I then rescanned for channels on the TV and it found all the ArqB channels it failed to find before- this time with the laptop on.

So currently I have perfect signal on all freeview channels on the tv, but the recorder 30 cm below is missing all channels from arqB (not merely bad signal but none).

I suspect that I am simply in an area where ArqB is at its limit to cover, so minor factors cause it to drop in and out (or appear on one device but not another).

I spent some time turning devices off (at the wall) to attempt to find the device but was unable to improve things with any of them.

It is possible that it is nextdoor (we live in a terrace and I believe next door has there TV and other equipment against the other side of the wall) however as they use sky it is impossible to confirm this.

I suspect I wont work it out or solve the problem but it is curious how it seems ot work

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tim's 40 posts GB flag
Tuesday, 4 September 2012
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RichardS
2:56 AM
Fleet

Tim,

Very curious. I'm not convinced of your diagnosis: "simply in an area where ArqB is at its limit of cover" - I cannot see anything in the geography for you location which would make ArqB substantially worse than ArqA (Unless you're using a Group A aerial - in which case I'd expect BBCA to be pretty ropey; most Group A aerials have zero gain at C45 and above.)

When your TV is receiving ArqB channels successfully, what values do you get for signal strength/quality? How do these compare with the values for ArqA channels?


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Friday, 7 September 2012
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Albert Honey MBE
10:09 PM

trLive in Faringon Oxon and fed up with the CONSTANT loss of all channels at approx. 10 pm

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