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 25/11/2024 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 withheldSunday, 3 June 2018
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Steven Szulecki1:30 AM
This is a general enquiry. Excluding atmospheric conditions or possible interference from European based transmitters, in the last 12 month period, how often has the Heathfield transmitter (excluding planned maintenance) been responsible for poor or no signal reception?
Is there a good, authoritative source to find out the transmitter signal strength/radiation patterns for your local area?
I live in Eastbourne, abut 500 yards from the seafront and seldom, if ever, experience any of the outages reported here. Are there any known 'null', 'dead zone' or 'weak' areas in the Heathfield transmitter coverage?
Many thanks for any info.
Steve.
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Monday, 4 June 2018
MikeP
6:14 PM
6:14 PM
Steven Szulechi:
Try putting yopur full post code into the coverage checker page at Digital UK - Coverage checker This is the Digital UK service.
Note that transmitter power output does not change at all - unless a significant fault occurs within the transmitter equipment.
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Wednesday, 6 June 2018
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Edward Thomas12:43 PM
I have just telephoned Davis TV in Eastbourne and they have confirmed they have been inundated with calls concerning poor reception. 11.45 Wednesday 6 June
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Friday, 8 June 2018
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Jeff Klepper8:28 AM
Eastbourne
BN21 3LD Aerial is on the roof 4 floors up
Panasonic feeview box re tuned twice
worked fine until this week picture breaking up and says no signal very intermittent
if I use freeview TV works fine onsame connection
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Jeff's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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StevensOnln111:12 AM
Jeff Klepper: What signal strength and quality readings do you get on the TV and the Panasonic box?
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Jeff Klepper3:07 PM
StevensOnln1:
strength box 10
tv near top range no number given
but since found out problems at the Heathfield transmitter
if I use tv's no problem but if boxes used problems
I have 2 tv and two Panasonic boxes
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MikeB7:13 PM
Jeff: Panasonic's are know to have sensitive tuners, so I am not surprised they are breaking up - your tv is perhaps slightly less sensitive, etc. You need to kill that signal level, no matter what you might think is going on with the transmitter, which probably has nothing to do with your problem.
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Saturday, 9 June 2018
MikeP
4:11 PM
4:11 PM
Jeff:
Further to that said by MikeB, you need to have around 80% signal strength as nearer to 100% will overload the tuner of any TV or box.
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Thursday, 21 June 2018
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John 6:01 PM
Live in Haywards Heath and for the last couple of days the hd channels have been heavily pixelated and breaking up. Non hd are fine and tv menu showing 100% signal strength. Is there a localised issue.
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StevensOnln16:18 PM
John : 100% signal strength is too high and can lead to the TV's tuner being overloaded. Take a look at the article titled "Too much of a good thing" on this website and try an attenuator.
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