Freeview Light on the Horndean (Hampshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Horndean (Hampshire, England) transmitter which serves 800 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 Horndean (Hampshire, England) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Horndean (Hampshire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.
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 Horndean 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.
| Mux | H/V | Frequency | Height | Mode | Watts |
| PSB1 BBCA | V max | C43 (650.0MHz) | 138m | DTG- | 5W |
 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 | V max | C46 (674.0MHz) | 138m | DTG- | 5W |
 3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian (South Coast 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), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C40 (626.0MHz) | 138m | DTG- | 5W |
 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 | |||||
Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?
The Horndean (Hampshire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.
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 Horndean transmitter?
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 28km west (264°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.6%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 18km west-southwest (250°)
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 Horndean (Hampshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 2 May 2018 | |||||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | E T | B E K T | |||||
| C40 | BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
| C43 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C46 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C52tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
| C56tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCA | |||||
| C62 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C64 | 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 | 12W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-3.8dB) 5W |
Local transmitter maps
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Wednesday, 13 March 2013
Les Nicol
8:34 AM
Waterlooville
8:34 AM
Waterlooville
k: Your location indicates that the Findon "Relay" transmitter serves your area. This is likely however to provide a more limited range of available channels. However you seem also to be on the fringes of transmissions from the "main" transmitter at Whitehack Hill. If your contract TV service is with SKY and to avoid/minimize cost you could consider either a change of contract to non-subscription bearing in mind that if you have a receiver with recording capabilities that this aspect will be disabled. The main reception capabilities will otherwise be unaffected with the exception of the subscription channels. -
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Les's: mapL's Freeview map terrainL's terrain plot wavesL's frequency data L's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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KMJ,Derby10:41 AM
k: Further to the advice given by Les Nicol, you are situated in the overlap of a number of transmitters, which unfortunately share one or more frequencies in several instances. This results in predicted reception not being as reliable as might otherwise have been expected on a number of muxes. Starting with Findon, this shares frequencies with the COM muxes from Hannington. Whitehawk Hill has C56 also used at Horndean, Mendip and Midhurst, also C48 is used additionally at Mendip, resulting in no predicted reception on those two frequencies. Midhurst is shown as being variable due to sharing C56, C58, C54 with Mendip and C50 with Horndean.Your best bet would probably be to try Rowridge, which is transmitted with both horizontal and vertical polarisation. The vertical option is likely to offer the best reliability overall. Use a group A aerial for Rowridge, this will not only give the best gain for the size of aerial chosen on the Rowridge frequencies, but will also pick up least signal on unwanted 4G frequencies.
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k: You can also use your satellite dish with a Freesat receiver.
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k5:37 PM
Many thanks for all your responses - it has been very much appreciated.
I bought a Freeview box a few years back, but after plugging it in; it told me that there were no Freeview channels available. I then reluctantly signed up to Virgin and since then I have regularly tested my postcode, but all of the Freeview transmitters keep saying 'No'.
Thanks to all of your advice I will re-read carefully your suggestions and hopefully finally get out of this spiralling Virgin contract.
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Wednesday, 1 November 2017
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Dave D5:03 PM
Since having the chimney stack removed on my bungalow (good TV signal), i've had the ariel mounted in the loft (iffy reception) , it is currently mounted on a 12 foot pole on the side of the bungalow, which is ok but signal is prone to suddenly dissapear for no apparent reason. As the Horndean transmitter is less than a mile from me, it's surprising that this happens.
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Wednesday, 8 November 2017
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Dave D6:22 PM
Waterlooville
Mike B, postcode is PO8 0HN. I've since found out that the problem I was having on the day that I put the ariel on a taller pole was due to transmission problems (sod's law) even though the Freeview website said there wasn't. What I don't quite understand is if I point the ariel at the Horndean transmitter I get no signal at all, the other problem is that the Catherington Lith is in the way of the Rowbridge transmitter, hence why i've put up a longer pole, reception is not to bad at the moment apart from Quest ch 37, I have watch that through through the Freeview recorder (extra booster even though there's a booster in the loft.
Regards.
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Dave's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Friday, 28 December 2018
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Fred Hales4:40 PM
Waterlooville
My postcode is PO8 0EP and I can see the transmitter from my upstairs windows. I used to get a good signal with an aerial in the loft. This is a simple old style aerial. Do I need a new one. If so can you tell me what kind to get.
Otherwise can suggest what my problem might be.
Thank yo
Fred Hales
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Saturday, 29 December 2018
MikeP
11:20 AM
11:20 AM
Fred Hales:
You need to have a wideband aerial fitted in place of your old aerial as there havce been significant frequency changes this year that makes it impossible for your current aerial to receive all the possible programmes. Avoid being 'conned' by the contractor into having a 'digital' aerial fitted as there is no such thing. Any good quality wideband UHF aerial is capable of receiving the signals broadcast from the transmitter.
Further, as you are just 1 km away from the Horndean transmitter you may have too much signal. If you go to the manual tuning page on your TV settings, you will see what the signal strength is for each multiplex - DO NOT RETUNE. Ideally you need the strength to be between 60% and 85%, less or more will give problems. For more information search this website for 'too much of a good thing'. That will advise you how to resolve having too much signal strength.
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Thursday, 31 January 2019
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luke harwood6:39 PM
Waterlooville
for about two months now. Seems to be much worse now. Channels still registering 72% signal but cutting out badly, unwatchable. We are also po8 0ep. We have a booster in the attic along with aerial. I thought it maybe new houses on the hill may be interfering. But perhaps its a problem our end.
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