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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Midhurst (West Sussex, 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)
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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Wednesday, 15 January 2020
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Chris.SE9:55 AM
mike phillips:
According to the BBC, PSB1 had slightly reduced power due to a fault on the14th. See also reports above.
For Midhurst your aerial should be pointing ~WNW and tuned to UHF channels C48, C35, C36, C29, C34, C33 for PSBs1-3, COMs4-6. Your "newish aerial" should be a Group K or T (or wideband).
If you are tuned to C24, C27, C21 you are picking up Rowridge (~WSW).
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Saturday, 22 February 2020
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Mr Hawkins9:48 PM
Since the last time i have had to re-tune my device in October i do not seem to be able to series link record certain programmes on at least BBC1, ITV and Channel 5. Is there a reason for this. i can set each episode to record but the series link doesn't work. This never used to be a problem. I have done a reset on my youview box without luck and it is starting to get annoying. Any help would be appreciated but it has seemed to tie in from the last time we have had to retune for this transmitter
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Sunday, 23 February 2020
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Chris.SE4:11 PM
Mr Hawkins:
Sorry I can't help as I don't have one of these, whether someone else can, they may post.
But there is these for help -
YouView Support
YouView Community
You may be able to find a solution/fix there, or someone to contact.
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Wednesday, 1 April 2020
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C Burlison-Rush7:36 AM
Horsham
Any ideas as to why I am not able to receive any programs on channel 33 but all others are fine?
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C Burlison-Rush9:01 AM
Horsham
Just to add to the above I am at RH13 9XZ and get signal from Midhurst.
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Chris.SE12:00 PM
C Burlison-Rush:
According to the Freeview checker, there appears to be an unspecified problem which says "A problem could be affecting your signal right now"
The BBC have a report "From 3:23pm to 3:25pm on 29th Mar 2020 BBC A Slightly reduced power due to a fault".
So we can only guess that there's something ongoing!
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C Burlison-Rush6:38 PM
Horsham
@Chris.SE
Ah! I missed that as I checked a few days ago....thanks
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C Burlison-Rush6:51 PM
Horsham
@Chris.SE
So even if the reduced power is specified for BBC A mux would that affect ARQ B?
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Chris.SE8:39 PM
C Burlison-Rush:
Firstly the BBC won't report on any muxes that don't carry their channels, and bear in mind I was also going by the Freeview checker saying (currently) there was a problem
Secondly, it'll depend a bit on what the fault(s) actually are, bear in mind that the COM muxes at Midhurst are transmitted with half the power that the PSBs use, so if the transmitter has an overall reduction in power, there could appear to be a greater impact on the COM muxes depending on your location.
Looking at the checker for your location, COM6 is perhaps likely to be affected more in such circumstances, but again it depends on what the "unspecified" problem is.
If you put your postcode (& house name/number to get the most accurate results) into the checker at Platform management | Freeview you'll see the predicted reception in normal circumstances.
In the current covid-19 situation, it may take longer than normal to get the fault fixed, I doubt anyone will give us more information.
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Sunday, 20 September 2020
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C Burlison-Rush5:39 PM
Horsham
@Chris.SE
It turned out that the original aerial installer didn't use a big enough poll (which was a scaffold pole cut to size) to clear the neighbours roof opposite our house! That and the trees behind the houses made for very poor reception. Now got the aerial on top of a nice 20ft poll and all mux's show 100% across the board! Fortunately the aerial is good quality I was told.
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