Full Freeview on the Midhurst (West Sussex, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Midhurst (West Sussex, England) transmitter which serves 94,000 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 Midhurst (West Sussex, England) mast?
MIDHURST transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 10 Nov 11:53 until 10 Nov 12:59. . 
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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 Midhurst (West 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 Midhurst 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 Midhurst (West 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 Midhurst transmitter?
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 51km west-southwest (256°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.6%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 41km west-southwest (248°)
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 Midhurst (West Sussex, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 16 Oct 2019 | |||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | C/D E T | K T | |||
| C29 | SDN | ||||||||
| C33 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C34 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C35 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C36 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C48 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | ||||||
| C54tv_off | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C55tv_off | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | |||
| C56tv_off | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||||||
| C58tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||
| C59tv_off | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ||||||
| C61 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | |||||
| C62 | SDN | ||||||||
| C68 | 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 29 Feb 12 and 14 Mar 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 100kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 10kW | |
| Mux C* | (-16dB) 2.5kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 2kW | |
| Mux D* | (-20dB) 1000W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Midhurst transmitter area
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Saturday, 23 November 2019
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John9:43 PM
Horsham (Roffey), tuned o Midhurst. Channel 5 and 4 have both been repeatedly dropping out for several days. Cant see any transmitter issues. I know theres a bit of steelwork going up in Horsham town centre, which could be betwen Roffey and Midhurat. Anyone know anything?
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Chris.SE11:03 PM
John:
I can't find any reports of transmitter problems either, nor any Planned Engineering.
It will depend of how big this steel work is as to whether it's likely to cause a problem. Goto http://www.radioandtvhelp….uk/ and select "Freeview", then put your postcode and house number in the boxes and click "Check transmitters". You can zoom in and out on the map(s) and see if it's location is likely to cause a problem.
Have you made any changes to your installation recently? It might be worth checking all your coax plugs, connections, flyleads etc, unplug connectors check for corrosion or other problems and reconnect them. See what signal strengths and quality you are getting for the multiplexes shown in your TV's tuning section which may indicate problems with your aerial or downlead. Also check that your downlead looks undamaged and that your aerial seems intact and pointing in the correct direction.
Problematic connections, water ingress etc. can seem to affect reception of just an individual or several multiplexes.
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Thursday, 12 December 2019
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Mike Husband6:50 PM
Bbc1hd + bbc2hd itv. Hd dropping signal has been getting over the last few weeks, now really bad. Returned channels and all he channels have disappeared. Non hd ones work fine. Central horsham, midhurst transmitter. No probs before has he signal got weaker due to making space for phones?
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Chris.SE8:19 PM
Mike Husband:
There have been no changes to the transmitted power of any multiplexes at Midhurst, PSB3/BBCB HD is transmitted at the same power as PSBs 1&2 - 20kW. The COM multiplexes (4-6) are transmitted at less power - 10kW. Are you having any problems receiving these?
For a list of which channels are on which multiplexes see Channel listings | Freeview
Neither Freeview nor the BBC are reporting any transmitters issues and there is no Planned Engineering listed.
Have your problems been since the Retune event on the 16th October? This is when the remaining multiplexes moved from Aerial Group C/D to Group K, so if you have an old aerial you may have difficulty getting some multiplexes. If you already have a wideband aerial, there shouldn't be a problem.
Otherwise, check all you coax plugs, connections, flyleads etc, unplug connectors check for corrosion or other problems and reconnect them. Flyleads can be a common problem, try swapping them. See what signal strengths (if any) and quality you are getting for the multiplexes shown in your TV's tuning section, this might indicate potential issues with your aerial or downlead. Also check that your downlead looks undamaged and that your aerial seems intact and pointing in the correct direction.
Problematic connections, water ingress etc. can seem to affect reception of just an individual or several multiplexes.
If you have an old aerial, providing you don't have Satellite or Cable TV you can get free help by contacting the Freeview Advice line on 0808-100-0288 where they should be offering to send an engineer to replace your aerial with a Group T / Wideband or Group K which is what you'll need to have satisfactory reception of all multiplexes.
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Friday, 13 December 2019
Chris.SE, not sure if this reply is seen. As previous post - all HD terrestrial channels on BBCB /PSB3 have disappeared on channel retune. They have been getting worse ever since the october retune. Flickering for a time & then setting down & working. Not now & recordings spoilt. Tried retune & they're gone. Why would these go while other channels are working?
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Chris.SE11:58 PM
Mike Husband:
I'm not sure you've fully understood many of the points that I've made. and so rather than just repeat what I said, I'll ask some questions and you can answer in the context of what I said previously, but first I'll add that as you haven't supplied a full postcode, we can't look at the predicted reception at you location which for a variety of reasons COULD be marginal/variable for some multiplexes. Many locations in Horsham do not get good reception from Midhurst- but if you want the Meridian region, it's often the only potentially viable option.
1) Do you have a wideband aerial?
2) Have you checked all coax plugs. flyleads etc.? Problematic connections, water ingress etc. can seem to affect reception of just an individual or several multiplexes.
3) What are the signal strengths (if any) and quality you are getting for the multiplexes shown in your TV's tuning section?
Digital signals do not work like analogue. It's no good saying that other channels are working. Digital signals can be quite weak and the channels are working, but then if they get slightly weaker (or suffer interference) they go over a "cliff-edge" as it's been called, and break up and/or stop. If you carry out a retune when the signals are too weak (or missing) you lose the correctly tuned channels, when if you hadn't retuned then you may have kept them.
In fact that principal is used sometimes when a set's memory is fragmented for want of a better way of describing it, you unplug the aerial, retune and that clears memory as no channels are found. A retune with the aerial reconnected should then restore all received channels to their correct LCNs.
I mentioned interference in passing, so I'll add one thing that I omitted from my previous post -
Do you have any Sky boxes (or other set-top boxes), Games boxes or other devices that have an RF output which may be set to C36 or even C31, C27 or any frequency very very close to them?
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Wednesday, 1 January 2020
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Mrs Diana Amory6:20 PM
I was very upset on Sunday to tuesday night that there was no TV Freeview signal. I understand that it was due to a freak weather condition, which I presume you had no control over. I was upset because I live alone and am elderly, and television is a vital commodity to prevent me feeling lonely and getting sad, so I was really very unhappy these last three days.
I was so pleased today to discover it is apparently alright now. Therefore I would like to know what is the possibility of this happening again, or is there anything you can do to prevent it? I would also like to know if there is any way you can prewarn me/us?
I would be most grateful for a response, because it was extremely frustrating not to have been able to make contact with anyone to find out what was happening.
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MikeP
8:08 PM
8:08 PM
Mrs Diana Amory:
The problems cause by temperature inversions is a well known natural phenomenon and has occured every year, sometimes several times a year for many many years, since broadcasts in the UHF bands started. There is nothing anyone can do about it and it will certainly occur again in the future.
All you can do, as a viewer, is to watch the weather forecasts for high pressure over your area. That does not guarantee there will be temperature inversions, but is also does not guarantee that there won't be.
Please DO NOT RETUNE when it does happen.
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Chris.SE8:13 PM
Mrs Diana Amory:
First let me wish you a happy new year and I'm sorry to hear it upset you, I know that others who live alone had similar feelings.
Yes it was adverse conditions called "Tropospheric propagation" or "Ducting" and is something that's more common in the summer, but the recent conditions have been unusually strong for the time of year, even in summer we rarely see it as strong as this.
Let me also say at this point, this is an independent help site, it's not the broadcasters, nor are we responsible for them, but I will say the abysmal lack of information they put out is unacceptable.
I'm afraid there's always a chance this could occur again due to unusual conditions, just like the weather in general has become more unusual at times, but it's not that common.
Do you not have a radio set you could use if this sort of thing happened again?
Whilst there are predictors out there that try to predict these conditions, they aren't 100% accurate, just like weather forecasts which can be inaccurate or suddenly change.
I hope your Freeview reception is normally OK.
Do post back if you have any more concerns or want any more help.
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Tuesday, 14 January 2020
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mike phillips10:31 AM
Pulborough
RH20 2NJ Newish roof aerial. Midhurst TX
I have been through all the hoops on problem solving, and am still puzzled why I get poor reception on PBS1 but not on the other Muxes. Even after the 'pressure pattern' issues I am still getting occasional pixellation ONLY on PBS1. Any suggestions? Is it likely to be a 700hz issue on that Mux?
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