Full Freeview on the Hannington (Hampshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Hannington (Hampshire, England) transmitter which serves 470,000 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 Hannington (Hampshire, England) transmitter._______
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)
Which Freeview channels does the Hannington 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)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Hannington transmitter?
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 46km south-southwest (194°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 48km south (179°)
to ITV Meridian/Central (Thames Valley) region - 15 masts.
Thames Valley opt-out from Meridian (South). All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian+Oxford
How will the Hannington (Hampshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 18 Apr 2018 | |||||
| E | E | E | B E T | W T | |||||
| C32 | com7 | ||||||||
| C34 | com8 | ||||||||
| C35 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C39 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C40 | SDN | ||||||||
| C41 | SDN | ||||||||
| C42 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C43 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C44 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C45 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C46 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C47 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C51tv_off | _local | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off | ||||||||
| C66 | 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 8 Feb 12 and 22 Feb 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 250kW | |
| Analogue 5 | (-6.2dB) 60kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 50kW | |
| com7 | (-8.3dB) 36.7kW | |
| com8 | (-9.8dB) 26.2kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 25kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-11dB) 20kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-14dB) 10kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Hannington transmitter area
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Tuesday, 29 October 2019
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John5:25 PM
MikeP:
Cheers. Sorry for not replying sooner, this site had a problem with its security certificate.
My guess is that is kinda what my Youview box did on its own as it woke up to record something from an HD channel and found nothing being broadcast. Because when I went to retune again it also asked which region I was in. But worth remembering your trick for the future!
John.
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Monday, 30 December 2019
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Rex12:28 PM
As of today, I receive nothing from Hanington.I have tried re tuning and the result was only a mixture of strong and weak signals from London.The aerial has not moved and the equipment seems to be working fine.Any explanation please?
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Chris.SE2:47 PM
All:
This may be a repeat post as I've tried posting this already and it's not appearing -
There are unusually high levels of "Tropospheric propagation" at present, often associated with High Pressure weather systems.
These levels of propagation are unusual at this time of year - they cause signals from more distant transmitters to travel a lot further than normal. It is currently affecting different parts of the country by varying degrees and signals can change by the second or remain stable for much longer periods.
In the old "analogue" days there was a lot of talk about "continental" interference often in the summer months, but the interference can come from transmitters anywhere in the UK or Europe and even further afield. At the moment some people are getting DAB radio from the Netherlands and FM Radio from France as well as the interference to DTV.
It is predicted to continue for a couple more days, and you are advise NOT to retune as you will likely lose the correct tuning that you had. The "propagation" can be very frequency dependent, and it can only affected one frequency or several, but it can/will be different for others.
People will however have noticed the unusually mild weather which the Met office is referring to as a "Foehn effect" but it's not helpful that it seems none of the major broadcasters were making any reference to the interference being caused to TV and Radio reception! So it's no surprise that people wonder what is going on and think there is a transmitter problem. It is now getting mentioned in some quarters!
For those that have retuned and lost correct tuning, you will have to try again and it could be hit and miss whilst the unusual propagation continues. If you are able to do a manual tune for the correct UHF channels, you may still receive interference or the wrong programmes.
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Mrs S. Fisher3:40 PM
Myself and my neighbours have had trouble with our televisions for the last two days (29 to 30 December) with blackouts of programs, sometimes for hours on end. Last night was very bad. This morning turned TV on and there was no programme on at all, anywhere.
I don't know if our TV (and our neighbours TVs in this road) need retuning. We are all older people
in this road and we do not always understand the technology to put these things right.
I should be very pleased if you could help us to put this matter right.
Thank you
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StevensOnln14:23 PM
Mrs S. Fisher: To summarise Chris.SE's post above yours, the current reception problems are mostly being caused by the currently weather conditions and retuning is the worst possible thing to do!
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Tuesday, 21 January 2020
Wednesday, 22 January 2020
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Chris.SE12:16 AM
marcus wood:
Well that would depend on when it went!
Sony moved a lot of their channels to Local Multiplexes many months ago.
If you not able to receive either of the two Local Multiplexes broadcast from Hannington (ie. a Local station on LCN 7&/or 8) muxes on UHF C32 & C34, then you won't get Sony Movies Classic.
If you normally receive the Local muxes and are not at present, it's possibly the Tropospheric Propagation/Temperature Inversion due to current weather conditions Effect of tropospheric ducting on Freeview | Help receiving TV and radio which is resulting in interference from distant transmitters in Europe & the UK.
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Tuesday, 31 March 2020
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Cliff Evans10:31 AM
Channel 45 - no signal strength.
Is it me?
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Chris.SE1:27 PM
Cliff Evans:
The Hannington transmitter is listed for Planned Engineering this week with "Possible weak signal" so it's not likely to be you :) I wouldn't try retuning whilst you have a pixelated picture or no signal as all that will do is clear the correct tuning. If you've done that you'll probably have to retune again later when the signal is back to normal (that may take several attempts!).
Noting your comment on the DAB page, are these trees really stopping you getting a decent signal from Rowridge? If you provide a full postcode, we can look at predicted reception and may be able to offer some advise.
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Tuesday, 12 May 2020
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Colin Whatley4:50 PM
Basingstoke
Hello, I have just moved into a new build house with clear line of site to the Hannington transmitter (about 5 miles away). Even with only a set top aerial (Mercury ST) I get a good signal strength (80%) and quality (100%) from Channels on PSB1, PSB2 and PSB3 muxes, but less so on the others (60%/50%), which I guess is to be expected in that they are only transmitted at half the power. I wish to distribute to all 6 outlets in the house.
My question in what main aerial I should get as I have to put it in the loft?
Should it be amplified or just split with the signal strength I have!?
I am thinking of a Philex Megaboost Log Periodic, incorporating a 4 way masthead' amplifier (Which I'll split 2 outputs from).
What do you think?
Thank you.
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