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 11/11/2024 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 withheldMonday, 29 October 2012
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Arthur Turk12:50 PM
I have not been receiving HD channels for some weeks now. I cleared the memory and ran Auto Setup with no luck. Cleared the memory again and did manual tuning on 41,42,44,47,49 and 52. Still no HD.
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Arthur Turk: When you manually tune to the HD mux (C47), ensure that the mode is set to DVB-T2 rather than DVB-T, if there is such a setting on the manual tuning screen.
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Arthur Turk2:49 PM
Dave,
I can not see a DVB-T2 facility. I have never needed to use such a thing in the past.
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Arthur Turk: So does it register a signal when you manually tune to C47?
Should I presume that you have looked at logical channel numbers 101, 102, 103 and 104 for them as they are their new locations?
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Arthur Turk6:43 PM
The TV searches for some time with little activity on the quality and strength bars but never finds anything that it can save.
If I key in the channel number the message 'invalid channel' appears.
Why did HD disappear before the recent channel changes?
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Tuesday, 27 November 2012
M
Malcolm11:08 PM
Eastbourne
I live in a flat in BN20 postal area and the aerial is on the roof. I cannot get any channel in the COM6 Arq B group. I can get most other channels well. I am told this is because the Eastbourne Old Town relay transmitter does not carry this group. Is this correct?
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Malcolm's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Wednesday, 28 November 2012
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jb3812:17 AM
Malcolm: Malcolm: Basically yes, but if you are receiving from any of the two Eastbourne relays then you wouldn't be able to receive either ITV3, Pick TV or Film 4 either as these do not transmit from any of the two relays mentioned.
As Heathfield @ 14 miles / 353 degrees (horizontal polarity) is shown as your main station then (menu allowing) you should carry out a "manual" retune on Heathfields COM6 mux Ch41 and see if anything is received, although its very doubtful if it would be if the communal aerial has been vertically mounted to cater for reception from the local relays, this being something that maybe you could send an update on.
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Malcolm: I have read your follow-up posting where you said that you tried manually tuning with no joy:
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The Streetview photo of your building shows the aerial on the roof clearly facing Heathfield, and so the Eastbourne relay plays no part in your reception.
Up until switchover, the lowest UHF channel (frequency) used in the 40s was 47. Your aerial system may be filtered to only allow particular channels or a particular range of channels. Now that the lower 40s are in use, and the lowest one is the one you can't receive, I wonder if it is your aerial system which needs some adjustment.
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Thursday, 29 November 2012
M
Malcolm9:20 AM
Eastbourne
Thank you Dave. I'll have a word with my landlord.
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Malcolm's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Wednesday, 5 December 2012
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Tracey Jude9:49 PM
Hi,Im not sure why but my DAB radio only tunes to local channels in kent, but then says no signal to them all, when i live in sussex,Heathfield, does anyone els have this trouble
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