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 withheldThursday, 11 October 2018
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kevin john hicks1:37 PM
Maidstone
Hi there. Please could you tell me if the Heathfield TV Transmitter was off air today around 10am today thursday 11/10/2018 as myself and my neighbours TVs had no pictures for a long time and our aerials and TVs are tuned to heathfield transmitter. We live at 7 Waterside Mews Maidstone ME18 5AB Thank You.
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StevensOnln14:50 PM
kevin john hicks: The prediction for your postcode suggests that it's more likely you would be using either Bluebell Hill or Tunbridge Wells rather than Heathfield. There are no recent faults or engineering work showing for any of those transmitters.
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Friday, 12 October 2018
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Tom peters11:30 AM
We are tuned to heathfield and it was down for a fews hours both yesterday and today. Usual we get 10 for signal strength and 10 for signal condition and during these blackouts they were both 0. It's been happening a fair bit recently affecting our whole area.
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StevensOnln12:26 PM
Tom peters: If the transmitter had been down for several hours there would be many more people complaining, but since only one other person has posted in the last few days it's almost certainly something at your end. If you are getting a signal strength of 10 out of 10 then your tuner may well be being overloaded and unable to cope with any slight increase in received signal strength due to the weather conditions etc. Try using an attenuator to reduce the signal strength a bit. Another possibility is that some source of local electrical interference is wiping out the wanted signals when the item causing the interference is switched on.
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Friday, 9 November 2018
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David Bensusan 8:44 AM
Haywards Heath
At the moment I can not receive 5USA. It is totally blank, where as all the other free view channels at worst pixelate. Location RH163UE. The aerial is in the loft.
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Saturday, 8 December 2018
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H Cloutt12:47 PM
Battle
Currently have no signal on any of the MUXs from the Heathfield [Sussex] transmitter. We have a roof aeriel.
It is unclear how to report faults other than by posting here.
Everything was OK earlier this morning. I am reluctant to attempt to re-tune since there seems to be no signal at all. Sometimes we get one f the MUXs drop out for a short period
Our postcode is TN33 9PY but a search using this postcode suggests we are on a different transmitter - but we know we get our signal from Heathfield
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MikeP
12:57 PM
12:57 PM
H Cloutt:
A check on the Digital UK Coverage Checker at Coverage Checker - Detailed View for your location, shows that reception from Heathfield is likely to be variable or poor. It also shows that Dover would be a better option and would give you more channels. Ideally you need a wideband aerial aimed at 282 degrees for Heathfield or at 69 degrees for Dover.
There is no reported fault at the Heathfield transmitter, so I suggest you check all your aerial cables and connections, unplugging all the coaxial plugs/sockets and refitting them to clear any possible corrosion/oxidation from the contact sufaces.
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StevensOnln11:00 PM
H Cloutt: There are no faults showing for the Heathfield transmitter, although it is predicted to be variable at your location anyway. Have you checked for any loose or damaged cables or connections behind your TV? Do you have an amplifier and is it still powered on? Good idea to avoid retuning as all it would have done was delete all of your channels before searching for them again and would never fix a signal problem.
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Thursday, 27 December 2018
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TONY MAYS2:32 PM
I always get no signal on a Wednesday or a Thursday sometimes all day other times it May be for 2 hours. the aerial was replaced 3 years ago. and 3 months ago had another box fitted in the loft. aerial is on the roof pointing towards heathfield.engineeer been 3 times. he thinks it might be the mobile mast installed by e grinstead station.but the box fitted was to eliminate same.
any ideas?
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MikeP
8:59 PM
8:59 PM
Tony Mays:
Please provide a full post code so we can check the expected receoption conditions at your location.
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