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The symbol shows the location of the Hannington (Hampshire, England) transmitter which serves 470,000 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 Hannington (Hampshire, England) mast?

Hannington transmitter - Hannington transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 25/03/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels Digital tick


Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name
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Which Freeview channels does the Hannington 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
 H max
C45 (666.0MHz)362mDTG-50,000W
Channel icons
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
C42 (642.0MHz)362mDTG-50,000W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian/Central (Thames Valley 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
 H max
C39+ (618.2MHz)362mDTG-50,000W
Channel icons
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

COM4
SDN
 H -3dB
C40 (626.0MHz)362mDTG-825,000W
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
 H -3dB
C43 (650.0MHz)359mDTG-825,000W
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
 H -3dB
C46 (674.0MHz)359mDTG-825,000W
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)

Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Hannington transmitter?

regional news image
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 46km south-southwest (194°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
regional news image
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 48km south (179°)
to ITV Meridian/Central (Thames Valley) region - 15 masts.
Thames Valley opt-out from Meridian (South). All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian+Oxford

How will the Hannington (Hampshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20122012-1318 Apr 2018
EEEB E TW T
C32com7
C34com8
C35C5wavesC5waves
C39BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves+BBCBBBCB
C40SDN
C41SDN
C42ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C43ArqA
C44ArqA
C45BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCA
C46ArqB
C47ArqB
C51tv_off_local
C55tv_offcom7tv_off
C56tv_offCOM8tv_off
C66C4wavesC4wavesC4waves

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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 8 Feb 12 and 22 Feb 12.

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

Analogue 1-4 250kW
Analogue 5(-6.2dB) 60kW
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 50kW
com7(-8.3dB) 36.7kW
com8(-9.8dB) 26.2kW
SDN, ARQA, ARQB(-10dB) 25kW
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*(-11dB) 20kW
Mux C*, Mux D*(-14dB) 10kW

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

Aug 1958-Jan 1992Southern Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992Television South (TVS)
Jan 1993-Dec 2006Meridian
Dec 2006-Feb 2009ITV Thames Valley
Feb 2009-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. Hannington 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.

Comments
Saturday, 21 April 2018
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Nick
10:28 AM

Retuned TV this morning (Sat 21st April 2018)

com7 is now on 746Mhz (Ch55)
com8 is now on 754Mhz (Ch56)

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Nick's 12 posts GB flag
Sunday, 22 April 2018
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Ian
10:34 AM

Nick: It's about time that somebody updated the list of channel multiplexes for Hannington on the ukfree.tv site. What's the point of this site if that isn't kept in line.

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MikeP
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12:46 PM

Ian:

This website is managed by Briantist and he has been made aware of the need to update the channel data for all the Freeview transmitters.



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Monday, 23 April 2018
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Steve
2:03 PM
Reading

RG10 Area: No COM 5, Ch55 channels from April 18th 2018: From a successful re-tune after March 21st (along with a New wideband aerial and new Loft Amp!) all channels were restored here, including COM7 & COM8 (So BBC 4 HD and BBC New HD Restored). HOWEVER, since approximately April 18th COM 7 has only an 8/10 signal with 0/10 signal quality, and I am back to not being a able to receive BBC News HD etc (i.e. any channels on COM 7) again. As COM 8 channels such as BBC4 HD are fine still (8/10 signal and 10/10 signal quality ) this does seem to be a COM7/Ch55 specific-fault? Any ideas on fixing this problem would be gratefully accepted

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StevensOnln1
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

2:12 PM

Steve: 8/10 is plenty for signal strength, but the 0/0 quality suggests that you're picking up interference from somewhere.

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Tuesday, 24 April 2018
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Albert Honey MBE
10:48 AM
Faringdon

SN7 7AY I have had no or very little TV since the re tune, and I cannot receive Beckley due to Faringdon Folly, chimney aerial

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MikeP
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

2:45 PM

Albert Honey:

You should be using the Oxford transmitter. From personal knowledge, the signals from there are good in almost all of Faringdon. Have a look at Coverage Checker - Detailed View which will tell you what transmitters are possible and give you the channels to tune to.



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Wednesday, 25 April 2018
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Chris.SE
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

2:47 PM

Albert Honey:
I assume you were using the Hannington Transmitter before the retune event. How reliable were the signals previously?
You are obviously in a very awkward location, what are your neighbours picking up?
It may pay to do a retune with the aerial unplugged to clear all previously stored information and then repeat that with the aerial reconnected.

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Thursday, 17 May 2018
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Darren
10:04 AM
Reading

Since Hannington's frequencies changed most recently, I've not been able to get COM7 or COM8 channels. I am in RG2 9FB, my wide-band aerial is pointing at Hannington but I can also receive Crystal Palace as well, which is in the opposite direction to Hannington for me, so the aerial picks up both.

I see that both Hannington and Crystal Palace now both broadcast these MUXes at CH55 and CH56 respectively. I see lots of other people in the Reading area on this thread with the same issues. Could this be caused by the fact I am receiving the Multiplex from both transmitters on the same channels at the same time?

When I do a signal check on the TV for these, it shows a strongish signal (about 70%) but virtually no quality.
I assume that means that unless the frequencies change again, due to CP's interference, we can no longer get those channels?

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Friday, 18 May 2018
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js
sentiment_satisfiedGold

5:22 AM

Darren: From:
TR 029
DVB-T2 SINGLE FREQUENCY NETWORKS AND SPECTRUM

"Self-interference places the main constraint on the size of an SFN.

In broad terms an SFN will contain coverage holes if any two transmitters within it are separated by distances exceeding the guard interval (more exactly: the distance which the signal travels during the guard interval period).

Up to a limit, it is possible to overcome this interference and regain the coverage by increasing the signal's guard interval, or by improving its robustness.

However, doing either of these will reduce the network's throughput, and it becomes necessary to trade off coverage against throughput in order to find the most satisfactory combination of the two."


The guard interval in current use for com7 and com8 is 1/16, corresponding to a maximum distance between transmitters of 67.2 km.

According to the Digital UK data for your location, linked to below your post, the distance between Hannington and Crystal Palace appears to be 82.4 km.




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