Full Freeview on the Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, England) transmitter

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

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BN2 5EL

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.

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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.

Mux	H/V	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	V max	C48- (689.8MHz)	171m	DTG-	4,000W
	1 BBC One (SD) South East, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 16 others
PSB2 D3+4	V max	C35 (586.0MHz)	171m	DTG-	4,000W
	3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian (South Coast 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	V max	C36 (594.0MHz)	171m	DTG-	4,000W
	46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South East, 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	V max	C33 (570.0MHz)	164m	DTG-8	4,000W
	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	V max	C57 (762.0MHz)	171m	DTG-8	4,000W
	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	V max	C32 (562.0MHz)	171m	DTG-8	4,000W
	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
LBN	V -10dB	C40 (626.0MHz)	171m	DTG-12	400W
	from 8th July 2014: 7 Latest TV,

DTG-8 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	BBCtv_waves
C34						ArqA
C35			C5_waves	C5_waves		D3+4
C36						BBCB
C40						_local
C48					ArqB	ArqB
C51_{tv_off}					BBCB
C53_{tv_off}		C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves	D3+4
C54_{tv_off}						LBN
C56_{tv_off}					ArqA
C57_{tv_off}		BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	SDN	SDN
C60_{tv_off}		ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	-BBCA	BBCA
C63		BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_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 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

Local transmitter maps

Whitehawk Hill Freeview Whitehawk Hill DAB Whitehawk Hill TV region BBC South East Meridian (South Coast micro region)

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Whitehawk Hill 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. Whitehawk Hill 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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Paul Hegan
10:07 PM
Brighton

My postcode BN1 5BP (address 46B Withdean Rd)
I see to have 'lost' , pixelating. Strength 10 1
I have reset to factory condition and returned to no avail.
I am aware there are upcominging reallocation of frequencies.
I am not sure what I have; it was installed about ten years ago.

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MikeP

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10:25 AM

Paul Hegan:

With a strength of 10 you have too much signal and that will cause your reported problem, it needs to be between 60% and 85%. Fit an attenuator in the feed behind the TV using an additional short flylead so that the weight of the attenuator does not 'hang' on the aerial input socket.

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Mike
1:03 PM

Started a from Ch.40 while testing some aerials and a pre-amp
I was unable to receive CH48 COM6 , where has it gone?

Regards,
Mike
Lower

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StevensOnln1

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3:17 PM

Mike: COM6 moved to UHF 33 several months ago.

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Mike H
10:35 AM

StevensOnln1 thanks for your reply.

Clearly the Whitehawk page is due as 48 is still mentioned.

Best regards,
Mike

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MikeP

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10:51 AM

MikeH:

The information on these pages has not been updated for several months as the only person can do the update is not available. Use the information provided by the UK Coverage Checker instead. You can find that at Digital UK - Coverage checker

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Arnie
8:54 AM
Brighton

The seems to be intermittently dropping to zero with a lower than usual signal strength the remaining time. Rooftop 3 element at BN2 8HX
Sunday 15/12/18 0700- present (0850)

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richard

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9:21 PM

Is there an issue with list above.. I have Cbs Justice on (690.0MHz), yet TV see freq 570.00 mhz ??

anyone BN2 9

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Steve Hampton
5:05 PM
Wirral

When I last looked all Whitehawk were shown to be moving below Ch48 by December 2018.
Now I see BBC A is staying at Ch60, meaning a aerial is required (for a while).
What is going on?

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StevensOnln1

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5:23 PM

Steve Hampton: According to UK, PSB1/BBCA is due to move to UHF 48 at during the final quarter of this year. Various other multiplexes will also change at the same time.

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