Full Freeview on the Hastings (East Sussex, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Hastings (East Sussex, England) transmitter which serves 18,000 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 Hastings (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 Hastings 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 Hastings (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 Hastings transmitter?
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 37km northwest (323°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Maidstone ME14 5NZ, 47km north (357°)
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 Hastings (East Sussex, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 17 Jul 2018 | ||||
VHF | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | ||||
C4 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
C22 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
C23 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
C25 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
C26 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
C28 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
C30 | -ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
C32 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
C35 | C5waves | C5waves |
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, Analogue 5, SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | 1000W | |
Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-7dB) 200W | |
Mux 1* | (-10dB) 100W |
Local transmitter maps
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldFriday, 1 February 2019
Transmitter engineering
10:31 AM
10:31 AM
HASTINGS transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 22:18 yesterday to 22:59 yesterday. [BBC]
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Saturday, 2 February 2019
Transmitter engineering
4:32 AM
4:32 AM
HASTINGS transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 22:18 on 31 Jan to 22:59 on 31 Jan. [BBC]
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Wednesday, 6 February 2019
Transmitter engineering
1:31 PM
1:31 PM
HASTINGS transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 10:05 today, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 10:05 today. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
4:31 PM
4:31 PM
HASTINGS transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 12:23 today to 12:39 today, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 12:24 today to 12:40 today. [BBC]
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Thursday, 7 February 2019
Transmitter engineering
4:30 AM
4:30 AM
HASTINGS transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 12:23 yesterday to 12:39 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 12:24 yesterday to 12:40 yesterday. [BBC]
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Friday, 8 February 2019
Transmitter engineering
4:31 AM
4:31 AM
HASTINGS transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 12:23 on 06 Feb to 12:39 on 06 Feb, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 12:24 on 06 Feb to 12:40 on 06 Feb. [BBC]
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Wednesday, 19 June 2019
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
HASTINGS transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 23:08 yesterday to 23:30 yesterday. [BBC]
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Thursday, 20 June 2019
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
HASTINGS transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 23:08 on 18 Jun to 23:30 on 18 Jun. [BBC]
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Tuesday, 25 June 2019
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
HASTINGS transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 03:10 today to 03:19 today. [BBC]
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Wednesday, 26 June 2019
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
HASTINGS transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 03:10 yesterday to 03:19 yesterday. [BBC]
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