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 18/11/2024 Screen may go black 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 withheldTuesday, 10 February 2015
H
hade8:13 AM
Eastbourne
Hello from hade my postcode is bn23 7jw
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hade's: ...
Monday, 16 March 2015
M
M Dainty8:06 PM
Please advise. For the last few weeks we have had intermittent problems with sound/picture signal. Since the weekend (14th March 2015) we have only been able to receive a good signal on BBC1. All other channels are so badly affected it is difficult to see any picture/hear sound. Several resets have been performed on the digital box making no change. All cabling has been checked and is good. Any ideas?
Postcode RH17
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Dave Lindsay
8:19 PM
8:19 PM
M Dainty: See:
Digital UK - Planned Engineering Works
Heathfield: "Possible weak signal"
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Wednesday, 18 March 2015
A
Alan11:34 AM
Is anyone else using the Heathfield transmitter experiencing signal problems, we are in the RH17 postcode and have been suffering since the weekend with virtually no picture / sound on the Freeview box and some channels on the TV although these come and go. Before I call someone in to look at the ariel / cabling I wanted to rule out it being a transmission issue as I believe due to engineering works the Heathfield transmitter may be outputting a weaker signal than normal?
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Dave Lindsay
1:03 PM
1:03 PM
Alan: Yes! Read the posting above from M Dainty who's also in RH17.
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Wednesday, 25 March 2015
P
Peter11:55 AM
Uckfield
Hi
i am just moving to TN22 1SB (uckfield) and the house has no airiel, I have a smart tv with broadband installed soon, would i be able to use a boosted external airiel mounted on the front of the house?
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Peter's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Dave Lindsay
12:18 PM
12:18 PM
Peter: At only 5.6 miles with apparent clear line-of-sight to the transmitter a signal amplifier will likely be way over the top. This is unless it's for the purposes of splitting the feed so as to run to more than one room.
Terrain between ( m a.g.l.) and (antenna m a.g.l.) - Optimising UK DTT Freeview and Radio aerial location
I would get a log periodic aerial and double-screened "satellite"-grade coax cable. For example:
Aerials, TV Aerial and Digital Aerial
(Other retailers are available.)
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Thursday, 16 April 2015
P
PETER11:36 AM
Hi, i live in tn330tu Battle area. i receive good signal and most channels during the day. when re tuning i usually have a choice of transmitter and the end of the scan. east Sussex or Kent.
at night anywhere from 730pm through the night i lose channels and get no signal on 90% of channels. now if i retune for example only to get say 20 channels i can watch BBC 1, 2 and BBC NeWS channels having had no signal on these. the same situation is with itv and other channels. during the day i can get over a hundred channels all working well. i am utterly fed up with dtv, why it was ever brought god knows it is and absolute pain. i have good outdoor aireal and cables are in good shape. i wish that i onle had one transmitter as having two seems to be the possible problem.
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Dave Lindsay
11:52 AM
11:52 AM
PETER: Two transmitters cannot be the problem unless the wrong one is selected, and by "wrong" I'm referring to the one which the aerial does not face.
If your aerial is directed to Heathfield, then you can't quite see it, with the trees of Great Wood being on the brow over which you're receiving. So it's not surprising that intermittent reception might ensue.
Judging by the terrain plotter Dover may able to be seen so you might be better off reorienting your aerial to it. The only thing is I can see lots of trees close to your house which could potentially hamper efforts if they are in front of the aerial.
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Tuesday, 19 May 2015
K
Kevin Farley2:22 PM
I live in Oxted all the people around me have had very poor reception for years but the last few weeks it is absolutely useless.
I am using catch up or Iplayer.
It seems from other comments we are not the only ones.
I plan to go satelite and cancel my License fee.
I have tried unplugging and resetting woith marginally improved results but really stil unwatchable
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