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 withheldFriday, 11 July 2014
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Michael11:19 PM
John Mitchell: You won't be able to get the com7 mux unless you can somehow get signals from Rowridge on the IOW (very unlikely).
CBeebies transmits during the day, and then is replaced by BBC3 at 7pm - no room at the moment for extra channels on the BBCB mux but encoder technology improvements may make it possible to squeeze in an extra channel in the future.
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Saturday, 12 July 2014
Dave Lindsay
1:42 PM
1:42 PM
John Mitchell: You will need to mount your aerial about 300m above ground in order to get line-of-sight with Crystal Palace:
Terrain between ( m a.g.l.) and (antenna m a.g.l.) - Optimising UK DTT Freeview and Radio aerial location
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John Mitchell6:06 PM
Thanks Michael aand Dave for your comments.
No I don't think I would get Rowridge on the IOW as the downs behind Beachy Head are in the way.
I did not realize that CBeebies and BBC3 shared the same carrier. If BBC 3 is axed as proposed, perhaps there is still hope for BBC 4HD in my area. I don't mind paying my license fee, indeed I would be happy to pay more if it helped. I do however object to paying the full fee for a less than full service! Still that's life I suppose. Pity I moved from Croydon 3 years ago!
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Michael7:07 PM
John Mitchell: Well the only difference between the licence fee of you and someone who gets com7 is CBeebies HD/Four HD and News HD. All of those channels are available on Freesat/Sky/Cable and any programmes shown in HD on BBC4 are available in HD on the iPlayer.
The Freeview constraints are down to only having 6 UHF channels nationally to work with and continental Europe needs to be considered as well as they use these frequencies.
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Sunday, 13 July 2014
John Mitchell
Just a small note about channel sharing:
BBC3 is shared with cBBC and BBC4 is shared with CBeebies. (Not CBeebies with BBC3)
BBC3 HD is shared with cBBC HD
The above channels are transmitted on all transmitters.
BBC4 HD is shared with CBeebies HD and only transmitted onsome main transmitters that transmit the Com 7 frequency.
This transmitter dose transmit Com 4, com 5 and com 6, twice as many as the national network.
They get 3 versions of ITV1, 3 versions of Channel 4, but no ITV3, ITV4, More4, Five star, etc.
The only channel you don't get is Al Jazeera (A news channel) all the other channels you get in SD or 1 hour earlier.
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Mark's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 14 July 2014
Dave Lindsay
10:38 AM
10:38 AM
John Mitchell: The COM7 multiplex is a quasi-national one. It is effectively in "pre-switchover" mode, rather like Freeview coverage prior to the switch-off of analogue.
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Simon Dunn10:54 AM
My BBC channels seem to have a poor and occasionally blocky picture. This is true across 3 TVs in the house and is the same for SD and HD channels. The picture quality is fine on the other non-BBC channels. The transmitter I use is Heathfield and I'm located in Burgess Hill. Any ideas anyone?
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Tuesday, 15 July 2014
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MikeB8:07 PM
Simon Dunn: If you put your post code into the site, you can see how close you are to Heathfield - could be your just getting too high a signal (got a booster?), or your system has a problem. Whats the signal strength?
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Simon Dunn8:15 PM
Burgess Hill
Thanks Mike. I checked the postcode and I'm 27 km away from Heathfield. I did a full re-tune yesterday and the signal strength was showing as 4 and 5 with a 2 on HD channels. Not had the problem before, seems to have been around for the last week or so to a better or lesser extent. Have also established it happens to other channels too, for example ITV4 is breaking up badly. Is it atmospherics?
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Simon's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 3 August 2014
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Tyler 9:20 PM
Im no getting any other channels other than bbc itv and e4 wher before last week I had all chaels ive retuned stil nothing any advice
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