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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Monday, 13 February 2012
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Nick6:30 PM
Thanks Andy, I will probably wait and see what happens. Do you still suffer from the same problems, and if so which tuners do you recommend?
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Andy Fraser
9:30 PM
Fleet
9:30 PM
Fleet
Nick: I have a Topfield PVR and I also repair them, so I see many different models. At some stage, a different tuner module was used in the Topfield range. The old tuners work fine for me here in Fleet, but the newer ones only receive 3 muxes reliably. I suspect that the newer tuners will work fine after the DSO completes.
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Tuesday, 14 February 2012
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P.Hollies10:15 AM
Tadley
Yesterday, Feb13th., ITV3 disappeared although we had been receiving it normally up to then. A retune failed to restore it and the number of other channels which had previously been available were also absent. A further retune this morning, Feb 14th has made no difference. Reception on BBC channels is excellent, all commercial channels that we can receive, itv, 4, 5, have poor reception. RG26 5PX
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P.Hollies: I think that by and far the most likely possibility, due to your proximity to the transmitter, is the high signal strength on the BBC multiplex which last week went to full post-switchover power.
The other multiplexes are still on low power. However, at your distance, you shouldn't have an issue picking them up.
The reason for them being unavailable is probably due to the high power BBC multiplex desensitising your receiver. That is, it is "seeing" the very high strength BBC signal and reducing its sensitivity which consequently means that it is not sensitive enough to pick up the other channels.
It's a bit like when you're in a room at night with the light on and you look out the window. Your eyes are desenitised by the light, which is why if you turn off the light, you can see out the window. Unfortunately you can't turn off the light in this case, but you can give your receiver shades in the form of an attenuator.
See here:
Freeview signals: too much of a good thing is bad for you | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
Get yourself an attenuator to reduce the level of the signals going into your receiver. A 20dB variable one is probably best as it will let you adjust it to best effect.
If you have a set-top aerial, you could try that (until you get an attenuator) as it will pick up less signal, although it may not be perfect. A crude (temporary) way of attenuating the signal is, if one of the aerial connectors is one that screws together is to remove the outer metal (screen) part so that only the centre conductor connects to the socket.
For those channels which you don't have, try manual tuning if your receiver allows:
ITV3 Ch40 (Ch41 from 22nd Feb)
Pick TV Ch44 (no change of channel on 22nd Feb, apart from removal of offset which is irrelevant when tuning)
Yesterday Ch41 (Ch47 from 22nd Feb)
If you loose any channels before 22nd February, don't retune! They haven't changed channel and all you risk doing is loosing them from your receiver's memory which means that you won't know if and when they come back.
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Wednesday, 15 February 2012
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Nick10:07 PM
Strange, seems only last Wednesday and this Wednesday the other muxes are watchable...
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Thursday, 16 February 2012
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RayM3:02 PM
Could you please tell me what time of day (or night) the analogue signal from the Hannington transmitter will be turned off?
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RayM: I should expect it to be any time after midnight. It is intended that the digital transmissions are all up and running by 6am.
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Rob p8:36 PM
Why do I keep getting no channels on UHF 43 (itv1 etc) despite having a good signal, I live within 10 miles of hangington, this is irritating and keeps happening on all tv's in house
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Mark Fletcher11:49 PM
Halifax
Rob p.Firstly you did not provide a full postcode or location as such.Without this information we cannot be much of valuable assistance to yourself.
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Friday, 17 February 2012
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Mark Fletcher12:02 AM
Halifax
Brian Davies.A group A external aerial will have a red tip at the end,a group B external aerial will be coloured yellow at its tip.As you have not given a full postcode or nearby location as such we cannot be of much valuable assistanc to yourself.However you mentioned you are unable to receive any digital channels but only the analogue ones with yer indoor aerial + amplifier.This is in some locations unsatisfactory such as in your case and if i was you i would purchase an external group B Yagi 18B antenna for your location but you must be quick,come Wednesday 22 February 2012 in the early hours the rest of Hannington's remaining four analogue channels BBC1,ITV1,Channel 4 and Channel 5 will be forever switched off.
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