Full Freeview on the Heathfield (East Sussex, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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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.
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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, 3 January 2019
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ROBERT LONGDEN10:07 AM
3RD jAN 2018, VERY POOR RECEPTION ON ALL CHANNELS. any REASON?
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StevensOnln110:48 AM
ROBERT LONGDEN: Most likely due to a fault (e.g. loose connection etc) somewhere in your aerial system. Start by checking for any loose or damaged cables or connections behind your TV. Do not attempt to retune.
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MikeP
3:50 PM
3:50 PM
ROBERT LONGDEN:
Please don't shout! Please provide a full post code so we can look at the expected reception conditions at your location.
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Thursday, 10 January 2019
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SteveK5:31 PM
Has Film4+1 been taken off Heathfield transmitter? Suddenly disappeared from channel 45.
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StevensOnln15:44 PM
SteveK: Film4 +1 moved from PSB3 to the PSB2 multiplex this morning. A retune should restore it (and bring you up to date with various other recent changes if your TV hasn't already updated itself).
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Saturday, 19 January 2019
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SteveK9:41 AM
StevensOnln1. Thanks. The channel came back of its own accord by the Friday. Haven't checked which frequency it is on though.
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Friday, 1 February 2019
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M McDOugall11:01 AM
I have lost ( 01 Feb 2019) freeview channel 44 from the Heathfield transmitter: Signal strength is 100% but there but no data: ie PSB2 and D3+4 C44 (658.0MHz) and these programmes.
E4, 3 ITV (Meridian (East micro region)), 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 15 Film4, 24 ITV4, 33 ITV +1 (Meridian south coast), 73 Sewing Quarter,
Any ideas why?
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MikeP
8:06 PM
8:06 PM
M McDonald:
The reason is that your signal strength is far too high and overloading the tuner in your equipment. The ideal signal strength is between 60% and 85%, so please search thios website for 'Too much of a good thing' and then take note of the information and act upon it.
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Thursday, 14 February 2019
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Philip Turner-Adams2:52 PM
Good afternoon, last night we lost all ITV channels on Freeview BBC ok
Left it till today thinking as in the past there may be an issue at Heathfield.
Tried today and still no ITV channels.
I have checked my areial and connections and all ok.
Please advise.
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MikeP
7:31 PM
7:31 PM
Phillip Turner-Adams:
We need a full post code please?
It may be due to the high pressure around at the moment. DO NOT RETUNE.
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