Full Freeview on the Midhurst (West Sussex, England) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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51.017,-0.701 or 51°1'2"N 0°42'4"W

GU28 9EA

The symbol shows the location of the Midhurst (West Sussex, England) transmitter which serves 94,000 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 Midhurst (West Sussex, England) mast?

MIDHURST transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 20 Nov 05:50 until 20 Nov 05:53. .

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name

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Which Freeview channels does the Midhurst 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	H max	C48 (690.0MHz)	299m	DTG-	20,000W
	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	H max	C35 (586.0MHz)	299m	DTG-	20,000W
	3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian (West 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	H max	C36 (594.0MHz)	299m	DTG-	20,000W
	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 66 TBN UK,
COM4 SDN	H -3dB	C29 (538.0MHz)	299m	DTG-8	10,000W
	20 U&Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 U&Dave ja vu, 58 ITV3 +1, 59 ITV4 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 91 WildEarth, 93 ITVBe +1, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 251 Al Jazeera English, 255 FRANCE 24 (in English), 265 Rok Sky +1, plus 29 others
COM5 ArqA	H -3dB	C34 (578.0MHz)	300m	DTG-8	10,000W
	11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 U&Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 U&Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 &UYesterday +1, 76 That's TV 2 MCR, 233 Sky News, plus 13 others
COM6 ArqB	H -3dB	C33 (570.0MHz)	300m	DTG-8	10,000W
	12 Quest, 25 U&W, 27 U&Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 63 GREAT! romance mix, 73 HobbyMaker, 75 That's 90s, 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 Midhurst (West 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 Midhurst transmitter?

BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 51km west-southwest (256°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.

ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.6%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 41km west-southwest (248°)
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 Midhurst (West Sussex, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2012	2012-13	2013-18	2013-17	16 Oct 2019
	C/D E	C/D E	C/D E	C/D E	C/D E T	C/D E T	K T
C29							SDN
C33							ArqB
C34							ArqA
C35							D3+4
C36							BBCB
C48							BBCA
C50_{tv_off}				ArqB	ArqB	ArqB
C54_{tv_off}					SDN	SDN
C55_{tv_off}	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBCA	BBCA	BBCA
C56_{tv_off}					D3+4	D3+4
C58_{tv_off}	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	BBCB	BBCB	BBCB
C59_{tv_off}				ArqA	ArqA	ArqA
C61	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	D3+4
C62				SDN
C68	C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves

_{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 29 Feb 12 and 14 Mar 12.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4	100kW
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-7dB) 20kW
SDN, ARQA, ARQB	(-10dB) 10kW
Mux C*	(-16dB) 2.5kW
Mux 1, Mux 2, Mux A, Mux B	(-17dB) 2kW
Mux D*	(-20dB) 1000W

Local transmitter maps

Midhurst Freeview Midhurst TV region BBC South Meridian (West micro region)

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

Aug 1958-Jan 1992	Southern Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992	Television South (TVS)
Jan 1993-Feb 2004	Meridian
Feb 2004-Dec 2014	ITV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Midhurst 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?

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10:47 AM

Geoffrey Petto: From today uses UHF 48/54/58/29/59/33 (info from UK). There will be further changes taking place in late 2019. Some viewers may need a new (see link below for details of the Advice Line who can arrange a free replacement aerial for viewers who don't have or ).

Important changes to Freeview TV signals | Freeview

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Peter Simpson
2:57 PM

Hi,

Post this morning's changes my old Pioneer DVR-LX61D now only sees 25 (was 140+) whereas my Panasonic DMR-BWT720 and TV (connected to the same ) see 140+ each.

I've cleared the Pioneer channel memory and the stations just seem to be from PSB1. I'm also not sure that this PSB1 is from Midhurst because we are getting occasional corruption, which was never the case before.

Any thoughts?

Thanks, Peter

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GARRY SMITH
6:57 PM

Sir/madam
Please can you, after abiding by on screen advice to re-tune my TV, i find i can no longer receive the likes of ch 10 ITV3, ch37 quest, ch61 true entertainment, ch 66 cbs to name a few, these i watched a lot and i followed your advice to unplug etc to clear my programme listings, but alas still after re-tuning unable to pick these up, in fact can only get 100 of sorts, when i used to get nearly 150/70 channels, i am using the 4g filter that was sent to me, and as a disabled pensioner i do like to watch these channels, so please can you tell me how i can get these and other channels back.

I thank you for your time

Garry Smith

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StevensOnln1

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7:04 PM

GARRY SMITH: Chances are you probably have a Group C/D which is not suited for the lower frequencies now being used for some multiplexes at . If you don't have or you should be eligible for a free replacement aerial which can be arranged by contacting the Advice Line (see link below).

Important changes to Freeview TV signals | Freeview

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Peter Simpson
3:51 PM

Hi,

Well some pluses and minuses. I eventually got the DVR-LX61D working with a retune the following morning and that seems to be back to normal now.

Unfortunately my Panasonic DMR-BWT720 now has a Guide recording issue. Guide recording works fine for all multiplexes except PSB3 / BBCB where the HD.

I can receive the programs fine and their entries appear fine in the EPG.However, when it comes to record time the recorder gets stuck with a "Pause" status and never starts recording. The machine isn't locked up it just won't record the programme.

This also applies to Channel 45 Film 4+1 which isn't HD but is on the BBCB .

I've reset the recorder to factory defaults and also tried just tuning in the channels transmitted on channel 58 so that the Guide information must have come from this channel but the problem persists.

Is anyone else seeing this problem or can anyone suggest a way forward?

Many Thanks, Peter

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Peter Simpson
5:00 PM

Peter Simpson: I've just found that I can't even do an instant recording on the BBCB . The recording simply never starts and sits in the paused state until the specified end time at which it "stops" recording.

Do I now have to buy another recorder?

Regards, Peter

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Joe B
4:38 PM

Peter Simpson: I have exactly the same problem with a Panasonic DMR-PWT530. I can view all the on the PSB3 / BBCB Mux but can't record any of them. I've just sent a question to Panasonic asking for their advice. It's got to be something to do with the retune but whether it's at the end (something like a rights protection that's be switched on by accident) or on the Panasonic HDD recorders is anyone's guess. I'll post here if I hear back from Panasonic but at least you know one other person is in the same boat.

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Peter Simpson
10:37 AM

Joe B: thanks Joe, sorry you've got the same problem. I heard from Panasonic support yesterday that they are aware of the problem and that I should wait a while for the "transmission to stabilise". Apparently Panasonic recorders are prone to this and its happened before on some transmitters sending COM7 and COM8.

Hopefully it will be fixed soon, I'll also post when I find it's working again. Regards Peter

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Charles

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7:09 AM
Horsham

I live in rh13 9xz with pointed to .
Ever since the retune on 21st March I am not able to watch any on the ArqB mux but other channels
are fine.
My aerial appears to be with the black bung at the rear.
Any suggestions?

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Charles's: C's Freeview map C's terrain plot C's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage

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StevensOnln1

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12:50 PM

Charles: Does your TV have a manual tuning function? If it does, try manual tuning on UHF 33.

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