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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.

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Which Freeview channels does the Hannington transmitter broadcast?

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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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 H max
C45 (666.0MHz)362mDTG-50,000W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) South, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others

PSB2
D3+4
 H max
C42 (642.0MHz)362mDTG-50,000W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian/Central (Thames Valley 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),

PSB3
BBCB
 H max
C39+ (618.2MHz)362mDTG-50,000W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South, 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

COM4
SDN
 H -3dB
C40 (626.0MHz)362mDTG-825,000W
Channel icons
20 Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 Dave ja vu, 58 ITVBe +1, 59 ITV3 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 78 TCC, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 89 ITV4 +1, 91 WildEarth, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 267 Al Jazeera English, plus 30 others

COM5
ArqA
 H -3dB
C43 (650.0MHz)359mDTG-825,000W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 Yesterday +1, 75 That's 90s, 233 Sky News, plus 11 others

COM6
ArqB
 H -3dB
C46 (674.0MHz)359mDTG-825,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 W, 27 Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! romance, 56 That's TV (UK), 61 GREAT! movies extra, 63 GREAT! romance mix, 71 That’s 60s, 73 HobbyMaker, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

DTG-8 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?

regional news image
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 46km south-southwest (194°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
regional news image
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?

1984-971997-981998-20122012-1318 Apr 2018
EEEB E TW T
C32com7
C34com8
C35C5wavesC5waves
C39BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves+BBCBBBCB
C40SDN
C41SDN
C42ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C43ArqA
C44ArqA
C45BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCA
C46ArqB
C47ArqB
C51tv_off_local
C55tv_offcom7tv_off
C56tv_offCOM8tv_off
C66C4wavesC4wavesC4waves

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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

Aug 1958-Jan 1992Southern Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992Television South (TVS)
Jan 1993-Dec 2006Meridian
Dec 2006-Feb 2009ITV Thames Valley
Feb 2009-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Hannington 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.

Comments
Saturday, 17 March 2012
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er
11:08 PM
Andover

Fixed - found to be a fuse popped causing the roof boosting box not to have power. Oh what fun!

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Monday, 19 March 2012
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Joan
2:21 PM
Winchester

Thanks again jb38. I don't think there is another option to at least trying the change to Rowridge. Out of curiosity, though, I am going to leave it until after the leaves do come out, just to check if it really is as I am expecting now. I think what I took to have been the start of interference by leaves was possibly rather the high pressure you have mentioned. I looked around and the leaves don't seem to be breaking enough to be having effect yet.

I learnt my lesson re tiles being broken before, though. The people I used before just denied responsibility by saying the tiles were already broken. And I couldn't "prove" they weren't, although they absolutely were NOT. This time I will have taken photos in advance, though.

But re checking for reception of any signal from Rowridge, it is ch24 that I have been manually testing already exactly as you describe. I haven't been retuning to it. And it is that that there is no trace of at all, 200kw or not. My aeriel is horizontal to the ground, though, as well as pointing to Hannington. It still surprises me that there is nothing at all.

Just one other query, since I will make the change anyway, if the vertical polarity is more likely to be better, should the aerial then be vertical itself or still horizontal as it is now? Advice appreciated again...Thanks J

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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
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P. Smith
6:03 PM
Fleet

Please tell us how we can receive BBC South
at GU52 6PW in North Hampshire. Have tried
retuning using C45 but it remains fixed on
London which is irrelevant to us!!!

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P. Smith
6:07 PM
Fleet

RE TV in Bedroom on Freeview. Arials on roof.
Southern and London.
Have tried to retune using C45 but still can only get London which is irrelevant to us.
HELP!!!!!

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jb38
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8:58 PM

P. Smith: I noticed that you are located to East of Hannington, and as such you are not alone by any means in having problems with receiving it, and with the high pressure problem that's been in existence for a while not exactly helping the situation, however what I was curious about was your statement of only receiving London, are you meaning it in the context that because you cant get a signal on Ch45 you have to use London?

The other point I wondered about being, when you are intending to manually tune a particular mux channel in on most TV's and boxes, as soon as you enter the channel number you intend to scan into the appropriate box, if any signal is there at all to receive then the level its presently being received at will immediately be indicated on the strength / quality bar. (you don't actually require to carry out a scan)

Of course it should be pointed out that this method is only used to determine if a signal is there, (i,e: tuner being used as an RF sniffer) as even although a signal might be seen indicated it could well be at a level under the reception threshold of the receiver, meaning that it wont be stored.

Is it the case that you don't see anything indicated?

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Dave Lindsay
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10:02 PM

P. Smith: If Hannington's C45 has already been picked up and put in your 800s, then manually tuning to it might do nothing as the receiver already has the channel stored in its memory.

As Crystal Palace (London) uses low frequencies and Hannington uses those higher up, run the automatic tuning scan with the aerial unplugged whilst it's scanning Crystal Palace's channels. Have it unplugged up to 33% should do it (or wait until it gets past C34 if it gives channel number whilst scanning).

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Wednesday, 21 March 2012
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Tony
sentiment_satisfiedBronze

10:01 AM
Farnborough

APRIL 4TH Should be 1ST With whats happened when Guildford changes will Hannington Com Muxes be switched high power immediately or is this another wait and see and Hope affair ?
also will there be a RE TUNE Your sets message
broadcast on Hannington services.


Tony

gu14

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Mike Dimmick
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10:58 AM

Tony: No, Crystal Palace's switchover (and therefore all its relays, of which Guildford is one) starts on Wednesday 4 April. Guildford stopping use of C41 is the pre-requisite for Hannington making full use of it. Nearly all switchover events happen on a Wednesday. Only SDN's restriction is lifted on the 4th, ArqA and ArqB will still be restricted until the 18th.

To remove the restriction, services need to be switched from the restricted antenna to the main antenna, which involves disconnecting and reconnecting. Guildford C41 is being released by multiplex 2, which is taking over the BBC low-power multiplex's channel for the two-week period between stage 1 and stage 2, so that has to move before Hannington's changes can start.

Digital UK only guarantee that the work will be done by 6am. There are no technical changes to the multiplexes' configuration, so you do NOT need to retune, unless you cannot get the channels at the moment.

It's likely that BBC Two analogue at Crystal Palace and relays will be shut down shortly after 12:20am if the schedule is similar to this week and next (the BBC like to shut down at a programme junction, rather than in the middle of a programme). BBC One may have already shut down as the programme junctions this week and next are at 12:05am.

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Dave Lindsay
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11:05 AM

Tony: According to Ofcom's latest document, on 18th April all three of Hannington's COMs (41,44,47) will go up to their full final power.

Digital UK Tradeview suggests that for Hannington there will be "COM power-up" on 4th and 18th April. However, the power is shown to increase to full level (25kW) for all three on 4th April and not increase on 18th.

I suspect that both of these sources are not entirely correct.

I suggest, as KMJ,Derby has said, that come 4th April, Guildford will relinquish use of channel 44 and therefore Hannington's (ArqA) will go up to full power.

Then two weeks later, when Guildford stops using C41 and C47, Hannington's other two COMs will go on full power.

Obviously, there will be no need for a full retune; just manually tune the multiplexes when they become available, except for poorly designed sets that don't have a manual tune option.

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Tony
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3:02 PM
Farnborough

thanks the reply's only the ITVBBC Muxes are received at moment all others show no signal
and the same is said by people close by with newly upgraded Antenna . We cannot get CRYPAL
Due very high trees in front of houses.

Tony



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