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The symbol shows the location of the Hastings (East Sussex, England) transmitter which serves 18,000 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.

This transmitter has no current reported problems

The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Hastings (East Sussex, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Hastings 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
 V max
C25 (506.0MHz)123mDTG-1,000W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) South East, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 16 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
C28 (530.0MHz)123mDTG-1,000W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian (East 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
 V max
C22 (482.0MHz)123mDTG-1,000W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South East, 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
 V max
C23 (490.0MHz)121mDTG-81,000W
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
 V max
C26 (514.0MHz)123mDTG-81,000W
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
 V max
C30- (545.8MHz)123mDTG-81,000W
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)

The Hastings (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 Hastings transmitter?

regional news image
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 37km northwest (323°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
regional news image
ITV Meridian News 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Maidstone ME14 5NZ, 47km north (357°)
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 Hastings (East Sussex, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1950s-80s1984-971997-981998-20122012-1317 Jul 2018
VHFA K TA K TA K TA K TA K T
C4BBCtvwaves
C22BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBCBBBCB
C23SDNSDN
C25BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCA
C26ArqAArqA
C28ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C30-ArqBArqB
C32C4wavesC4wavesC4waves
C35C5wavesC5waves

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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, Analogue 5, SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB 1000W
Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D*(-7dB) 200W
Mux 1*(-10dB) 100W

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

Aug 1958-Jan 1992Southern Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992Television South (TVS)
Jan 1993-Feb 2004Meridian
Feb 2004-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. Hastings 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.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

Radiation patterns withheld

Comments
Wednesday, 11 July 2012
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Adrian Durrant
11:46 PM

Many thanks Dave, still considering the idea of realigning my Triax Unix 100 to Heathfield instead of Hastings, and I'm comparing the power of the transmitters. It would actually be quite a big fiddly job and the only benefit would be that I could use an unpowered splitter instead of the powered one I have. Also I guess Heathfield signals might be less affected by co-channel interference during high atmospheric pressure... It's a tough call, jury's still out I guess!

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Wednesday, 25 July 2012
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Adrian Durrant
10:40 AM
Eastbourne

Dave; Many thanks for your advice, having thought about it I decided to realign to Heathfield; it was tricky because it meant dismantling the six-year-old aerial and mast and moving it to another corner of the chimney (to keep birds'-muck off the chimney), I took a few hours quite laborious and fiddly work and disaster loomed when I found a couple of vital nuts were rusted... however engine grease got them loosened. Pleased to say it was a job worth doing because it makes more sense to use the more powerful transmitter and I have been able to do what you suggested and use an unpowered splitter and have binned my old powered one. I located the Heathfield transmitter with binoculars and beamed the Triax 100 straight at it! Plenty of signal to split four ways and reception's excellent.

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Dave Lindsay
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12:22 PM

Adrian Durrant: Good to hear that you have success. It's great when a plan comes together!

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Monday, 13 August 2012
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Malcolm Wood
6:01 PM
Eastbourne

Dave Lindsay

Not yet tried the array. I have been pondering what to do all this time.

I haves decided to site a Log periodic below roof hight in the gap between my house and next door, the houses line up almost exactly with Hastings. Im hoping this will provide sufficient shielding from South Cliff tower especially as this may also bring the line of trees in the park behind my house in to play. If this does not work I will invest in another log to add in an array.

I thought I would go for logs as the reflectors on a pair of vertical Yagis might foul each other and limit accurate spacing of the array. Also less windage.

I probably won't get this done until September and will report the results.

In the mean time I would be very interested in your thoughts.

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Saturday, 8 September 2012
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Geoff Mynn
8:13 PM
Eastbourne

Problems with Freeview from Hastings today. BBC channels disappeared this morning and the ITV signal strength was pretty bad this afternoon.
Tonight, all of the Hastings multiplexes went for about 10 minutes. There were also a number of continental channels appearing this morning. I have performed several retunes on 2 DTRs, but at the moment the signal is very 'hit and miss'.

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Monday, 8 October 2012
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mandy
4:28 PM
St. Leonards-on-sea

my postcode is tn37 6bz there are 24 flats in my building and we all have no signal at the moment can you tell me whats wrong please

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Dave Lindsay
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4:41 PM

mandy : The aerial system will have a powered amplifier for distribution of the feed from the aerial. The likely answer is that either it has failed or there is no power to it. Either way it is down to the party responsible for the aerial system to put it right or have it put right. It may be worth speaking to your landlord, although clearly there isn't likely to be anything done about it today.

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Wednesday, 17 October 2012
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Steve
8:17 PM

The HD channels from the Hastings transmitter flicker from time to time, very quick to a black screen then back to output. It doesn't affect the sound just picture. Is this a problem experienced by anyone else?

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Monday, 27 May 2013
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PeterP
11:10 PM

Hastings - Channel 700-710 problems + BBC SD services not working (1,2, bbc3,bbc4).
All other TV channels fine. BBC HD working OK.
DAB radio works without issue.
Tried retuning, finds channels but they just all say no signal.

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Wednesday, 29 May 2013
PeterP
3:01 PM

Thanks, I'm onto something :) with helpful hints from Hollington Pk thread.

Seems I'm not on Hollington park (bad reception despite being close) but Hastings.

The problem is when I use auto tuning it uses ch24 for bbca when it should be using ch25.
Why this has changed I don't know, and as I said was fine before. All good now though until next glitch.

My tv has an LNA setting, it now says 25 and it's on. Before it was 22 I think. How it got to this ??? I can't see any way to even set it. does ch22 transmit the wrong info to tell my tv how to tune?

So, I did a test, Turned it off again and did a rescan. Still managed to set itself to 25.

I can't set a 'zone' i.e. Kent, but i do have digital auto service update. Clearly something got out of whack, whether it be a mistake or a different transmitter ot something I don't know. No local transmitters with 24 at all, so it's a mystery :)
Tv is 1yr old Sony bravia with latest firmware etc. no changes before problem at all!

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