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, 21 May 2016
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Warren Swaine10:48 PM
MikeB: Thanks for your help. I had never explored the manual tuning signal strength menu option before, always relying on autotune. This is what showed up:
PSB1 C45 SQ=100% SS=100%
PSB2 C42 SQ=100% SS= 90%
PSB3 C39 SQ=100% SS= 80%
COM4 C41 SQ= 60% SS= 80%
COM5 C44 SQ=100% SS= 90%
COM6 C47 SQ=100% SS= 90%
COM7 C32 SQ= 0% SS= 70%
COM8 C34 SQ= 70% SS= 70%
Unplugged aerial cable and plugged it back in again and COM7 burst back into life. Doh!
[I'd gone through the checklist, but assumed the check aerial bit only applied for "If you have lost ALL your Freeview channels". Lesson learned.]
Thanks once again.
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Sunday, 22 May 2016
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MikeB9:09 PM
Warren Swaine: Well, you don't have a problem with signal strength!
Actually, they are a touch on the high side - 75% is pretty much perfect, although of course that would mean killing your signal a bit, and thus hitting Com 7.
Yeap, the lose aerial lead is a classic - at least one website reckons 50% of problems are caused by them. Its probably worth swapping the cable out anyway, just in case its dodgy - they are cheap enough, and as long as they are well shielded, you don't need anything fancy.
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MikeB's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 6 June 2016
Transmitter engineering
8:32 PM
8:32 PM
HANNINGTON transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 18:39 today. [BBC]
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Tuesday, 7 June 2016
Transmitter engineering
5:31 AM
5:31 AM
HANNINGTON transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 18:39 yesterday to 23:21 yesterday. [BBC]
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Wednesday, 8 June 2016
Transmitter engineering
5:32 AM
5:32 AM
HANNINGTON transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 18:39 on 06 Jun to 23:21 on 06 Jun. [BBC]
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Saturday, 13 August 2016
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Mrs Saunders7:07 PM
Basingstoke
Picture has been breaking up or no signal for weeks - this suddenly occurred and we have made no changes to our aerial which previously worked fine. The reception issue appears worse with BBC channels - we tried retuning but lost most of our other channels except for the general BBC, ITV, CHANNEL4 etc channels.
Postcode RG21 5UE
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Mrs's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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MikeB8:06 PM
Mrs Saunders: look at the digitasl UK link at the bottom of your question (it really helps when someone puts their postcode into the site - makes life much easier) - your just 11km from the transmitter, which is very close. So there are two possibilities.
1) If your reception is that bad, then there is likely to be something wrong with your aerial system. Check signal strength (and that you are actually tuned to Hannington). If its very low to non existant on all the muxes (see the above page for which channels are on which muxes), then your system almost certainly has a major fault - probably a very frayed/corroded connection, or an aerial lead which has almost fallen out of the back of the TV, etc. Could also be a failing booster, just since your so close, the last thing you need is one of those.
Just go through each part of the system, until you narrow down what it is, and if you have no joy, you'll need to call someone out.
The second possibility is that your signal is too good. Search for 'too much of a good thing' on this site.
My bet its the aerial system, but ironically you might be fine with one of those basic indoor aerials - your that close.
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Tuesday, 23 August 2016
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Robin Taylor 12:59 PM
Crowthorne
Transmitter engineering: Suffered a great deal of signal loss this morning on a great
number of channels around 7.00 am . I live in postcode RG45 6DN . I do not know if the problem
was a transmitter failure or other until I get home around 7pm
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Adrian1:26 PM
I re-tuned my TV at the start of the Olympics, as BBC 4 HD was moved temporarily for the games, and all was fine for the last two weeks.
I know BBC 4 HD doesn't not start showing programmes until 7pm in the evenings now the Olympics are over, but I've performed a re-tune a number of times today, and whenever I tune into BBC 4 HD (ch 106) there is a message on the screen stating that BBC 4 HD has moved and to re-tune my TV - am I missing something? Should I now be receiving BBC 4 HD on C39, C32 or C34 multiplex? At the moment, I seem to be getting it from C39.
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Adrian9:55 PM
I performed another re-tune after 7pm, and now BBC 4 HD is being picked up from C32 multiplex. So all looks good now.
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