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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Saturday, 9 April 2011
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Mike Dimmick3:18 PM
Reading
I've checked out the work that's been going on. Analogue services have returned to the new main antenna, and the temporary analogue antenna has been removed. The radio antennas that were removed to allow the temporary to be fitted have been replaced.
The radio panels and the site of the temporary aerial are directly below the digital panels, so it's possible power was reduced while this was being done.
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Sunday, 10 April 2011
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john burch7:32 PM
Wokingham
Over the last week my signal on channel 50 from Hannington deteriorates during the day, all other channels are perfect and all have been perfect since last September/October, i.e during the winter. My postcode is RG40 4PT, is this caused by spring & trees blossoming & if so why only this channel
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Mike Dimmick11:22 PM
Reading
john burch: The clear conditions have allowed signals to bounce off the atmosphere that normally would be blocked by the terrain and the horizon. It's likely to be strong analogue signals from Sutton Coldfield or from Dover.
Your prediction is currently for poor coverage. This is because Hannington currently transmits very little signal to the east, in order to protect Guildford's analogue coverage (the digital signals at Hannington use the same channels as the analogue signals from Guildford). The situation should improve dramatically at switchover, as services move to the main antenna, which broadcasts in all directions - the probability of good reception rises from 34% to 96%, 98% by the end of 2012.
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Wednesday, 13 April 2011
I have noticed that the analogue time code from the BBc has stuck on 27th march 2011.
Those that still have analogue recording equipment are finding that their 'auto clock' function is setting them to the wrong date.
I have checked a couple of machines on Crystal Palace and they don't seem to have the same problem.
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Thursday, 14 April 2011
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Francis Farrar6:37 PM
Camberley
MUX 2 Hannington & Crystal Palace both exhibit reasonable signal levels but very high bit error rates - suspect the common signals feeding these multiplexes are faulty in both instances. The result of this is that reception from these multiplexes is likely to be poor except close to the transmitters.
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Mike Dimmick7:26 PM
Francis Farrar: The signals feeding these transmitters are *not* common. They carry different regional variations of ITV1 and ITV1 +1, and different adverts on C4 and C5.
High bit error rates are simply because there is terrain blocking clear line of sight to Crystal Palace, and Hannington's low-power DTT radiation pattern is heavily restricted to the east - to protect Guildford's analogue coverage area (it uses the same channels).
At switchover, Hannington services will move to the omnidirectional antenna at the top of the mast.
Digital UK's postcode checker actually shows no prediction for you from Hannington until switchover starts, and poor on most multiplexes from Crystal Palace (the others show no prediction).
There's nothing wrong with the transmissions: you're just not in the coverage area.
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Saturday, 16 April 2011
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Mark G7:11 PM
Camberley
I am in Camberley, and despite this being theoretically out of range, with a quality amplified roof antenna I had near-perfect reception on all muxes from 2007 until last month. I assume something has changed during the recent maintenance - certainly Mux 2 is now unavailable for me, and even Mux 1 (the strongest I have) is not perfect.
I am hopeful that there is still something happening that will be 'corrected' soon, otherwise it will be a long wait until the switchover...
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Sunday, 17 April 2011
Mark G: You should get Mux 1 and A OK until switchover, but you will not get a decent service until Wednesday 22nd February 2012 and even then you are going to have to wait for 4th April 2012 for the commercial multiplexes to be at full power.
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Mark G1:40 PM
Camberley
Hi Briantist,
Do you know why this is so? As I posted, I had perfect reception for the last 3 years - despite theoretically being 'out of area'. Certainly nothing local (trees etc), and too much of a coincidence that I have a problem as others post similar issues...
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Monday, 18 April 2011
Mark G: It could be the effect of shifting signals caused by other regions going though their switchover, or it could just be a coincidence and you have equipment failure.
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