Full Freeview on the Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, England) transmitter which serves 96,000 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 Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, England) transmitter._______
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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, 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 Whitehawk Hill 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, 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 Whitehawk Hill transmitter?
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 43km northeast (36°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.6%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 80km west (274°)
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 Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 16 Oct 2019 | ||||
| VHF | C/D E | E | E | C/D E T | W T | ||||
| C2 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C34 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C35 | C5waves | C5waves | D3+4 | ||||||
| C36 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C40 | _local | ||||||||
| C48 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C51tv_off | BBCB | ||||||||
| C53tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | D3+4 | |||||
| C54tv_off | LBN | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | ArqA | ||||||||
| C57tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | SDN | SDN | ||||
| C60tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C63 | 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 | 10kW | |
| Analogue 5 | (-3dB) 5kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-4dB) 4kW | |
| Mux B* | (-10dB) 1000W | |
| Mux 2*, Mux C*, Mux D*, LBN | (-14dB) 400W | |
| Mux 1*, Mux A* | (-17dB) 200W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Whitehawk Hill transmitter area
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Wednesday, 15 July 2015
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Ken1:19 PM
Jb38
I am not clear. Who can and cannot receive the LBN channels form Whitehawk Hill?
You mention Saltdean. If someone living in Saltdean can receive signals from the Saltdean and Whitehawk Hill transmitter,s then what is the significance of Channel 54? - Would it be determined simply by signal strength. The maximum strength prevailing, hence eliminating the other
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jb387:16 PM
Ken: Not really, as the Easterly limit for reception of C54 from Whitehawk Hill is shortly before the Greenways / Marine Drive Junction, whereas the Westerly limit for reception of C54 from Saltdean is around the Little Crescent /Marine Drive area, in other words a zero reception buffer zone exists between both stations to allow for spillage from either station, likewise they do not overlap anywhere.
This of course only applies to C54.
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Thursday, 16 July 2015
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Ken6:18 AM
Thanks
I can see that the LBN from Whitehawk Hill is only 400Watts, so I assume that this is why it has so short a range.
Channel 54 from Saltdean has only 40 Watts available which I assume accounts for its range.
Best wishes
Ps. Are you using radiation patterns?
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jb387:35 AM
Ken: Re: Power, only partially, as its a combination of this coupled to restrictions on the transmitter aerial.
On the subject of radiation patterns, yes! but though, you can see this for yourself by looking at the map on the very top of this page, a list of the multiplexes used Whitehawk Hill being seen on the left hand side, if you click on LBN(V) the radiation pattern / coverage area of this particular multiplex will be shown, zooming in slightly giving a somewhat more detailed image.
Link for Saltdean below.
Saltdean (Brighton and Hove, England) Freeview Light transmitter | UK Free TV
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Ken12:51 PM
Yes, I see.
The radiation is biased towards the East, and this is due to the characteristics of the transmitting aerial. It looks like different aerials are used for different mux's (transmitting at different power) - probably not like my Yaggi broadband aerial.
Best wishes
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Sunday, 19 July 2015
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Kevin Grant7:11 PM
Brighton
I live in woodingdean Brighton and find this last week have lost my free view from an ariel tuned into whitehawk. Tried re - tuning thre T.V but still not working . Ariel on roof postcode BN2 6RP. Has something changed. .
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Kevin's: mapK's Freeview map terrainK's terrain plot wavesK's frequency data K's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Dave Lindsay
7:48 PM
7:48 PM
Kevin Grant: Digital UK publishes details of engineering works:
Digital UK - Planned Engineering Works
For last week Whitehawk is "Possible weak signal".
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Saturday, 12 December 2015
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Kent2:24 PM
Why has the Horror channel changed multiplex?
How can I interpret the aerial radiation patterns?
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Monday, 14 March 2016
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Dipole Bender11:49 AM
Is Com6 channel 135 RT HD really HD or do I need to visit Specsavers?
Regards
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Sunday, 27 March 2016
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Kent Smith5:50 AM
Why can I get a strong signal form Rowridge for BBC (Ch 24), but other signals are very weak.What is special about the BBC signal?
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