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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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.

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name

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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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Chris.SE

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12:58 AM

K Whitnell :

There is Planned at this week with "Possible weak ".
So if you don't live that close to the , you may lose signal altogether until the power is put back up again.

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Robbles
8:54 PM

Please note that several of the frequencies listed wrong since the retune event in October, the correct list is ( from the website / confirmed by tuning ):

BBCA
D3&4
BBCB
SDN
ARQA
ARQB
L-BTN

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MikeP

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10:35 PM

Robbles:

The owner of this website is unable to update any of the usage listings at this time.

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Chris.SE

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12:38 PM

Robbles:

See my posts on p187 here. However if you want to check your own coverage visit Freeview | All your favourite TV shows, all in one place and all for free as the DigitalUK site has now been merged into the site.

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Dollie
12:59 PM

Why is my tv picking up two transmitters, whitehawk and ? I am using a communal ariel.

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1:14 PM

Dollie:

Most likely due to recent weather conditions, high pressure coupled with Temperature Inversion which makes signals travel further than normal How clear skies and fine weather can affect your TV reception | Help receiving TV and radio

If you haven't got all your correct back to normal, try a retune.

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Brian Thomson
7:02 PM

No BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, and CHANNEL 5 HD at 18:45 on 26 January 2020. Both television and BT box affected, signal strength and signal show 0%. On SD signal quality and strength at about 96%.
This has occurred several times in the near past and usually the signal reappears. However, I do not have any dates recorded. Are there reasons for the loss of HD signal?

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Chris.SE

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9:40 PM

Brian Thomson :

The BBC have no reports of any problems with the BBCB HD in the last 5 days, nor this evening so far.
This certainly is odd if you are not noticing any loss of other . I take it you've not had loss of ITV/Ch.4 channels or any on the COM multiplexes at the same time?
You say "usually the reappears" - how long is it missing for?

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John

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3:59 PM

Chris.SE: Re COM 5 CH 22 Horz has been either low / no for many days, yet vertical polarisation strengh in Worthing has been 100%
I have both H and V aerials installed so I can switch between the two during time of co- .
As there's no reports of problems has anyone got any ideas.
Many thanks John.

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10:38 PM

John:

Hi John, see reply on Tx page.

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