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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Sunday, 20 March 2011
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kieran10:34 AM
ther is a fulty dish on hannington it is hanning lol
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Monday, 21 March 2011
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RJB9:09 PM
no reception on bbc1,2,3 and itv1,2 and channel4,e4,film4, and channel 5 and a few others too
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Tuesday, 22 March 2011
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Andy11:20 AM
I have now had it confirmed to me in writing by our ariel provider, and by the developer in our area of Limes Park (Basingstoke) - Hannington transmitter IS undergoing "extensive engineering works... an upgrade to be ready for the digital switch over." I have also been told that "this upgrade may take months and might have some influence on your TV signal reception insofar as some days you might have all the channels you normally benefit from and some days you might only have terrestrial [i.e. analogue] channels."
So the message for those who are serviced from Hannington is we just have to put up with it, and retune our digi-boxes periodically to see if we can get better reception, and hopefully by 2012 it should be better.
And before people in Basingstoke and the east of the region think of turning their ariels towards Crystal Palace, that has major works going on too!
I appreciate that these works have to go on, with such a major change coming next year, especially with an old mast like Hannington. I just probably would have expected a generally communication to be sent around to the half a million people affected. Or at least, especially on a website like this, it should be easier to get the full and true story.
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Mike Dimmick1:53 PM
Reading
Andy: Yes, there are engineering works, but they relate to the aerial that is currently providing analogue signals. It will be the digital antenna after switchover. There may be occasional periods of low power on digital if they have to climb past the digital antennas, which are below the main antenna at the top of the mast, but I believe all the necessary installation and cable connection has been done.
The old antenna was replaced at the end of last year and I believe it's now back in service, though my aerial points to Crystal Palace so I can't be sure.
I've run a prediction for Watertower Way (RG24 9RF), which appears to be on the estate. It's relatively poor - no coverage predicted for multiplexes B C or D, variable for multiplexes 1 2 and A. However, about 500 metres away on Barton Place (RG24 9JS), it gives a prediction of good reception. The predictor may be using the permitted radiation pattern rather than the actual. Your postcode, RG24 9TG, is about another 500 metres to the south-east, and here there's no prediction for multiplex 1, 2, C or D, and very poor for multiplexes A and B. The predictions do *not* account for any engineering work.
Basically, the problems get worse the closer you are to Guildford, which is the interfering transmitter.
For best results, the aerial should be fitted outside, with lots of clear space around it to reduce reflections from the buildings. The developer may have fitted an aerial in the loft, or a communal system, to reduce the visual impact of the aerials if the site is considered sensitive. If the aerial is in the loft, complain: they just don't work as well as they do outside.
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kieran7:45 PM
andy: limes park has lots of trees so the line of sight is no where ner a line of sight i have allready pointed my indoor aerial to guliford then crystle palace until hannington has no work done on it like fy mate did
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Saturday, 26 March 2011
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Tony2:36 PM
Hook
After many months of good reception, we now have intermittent poor signal quality on BBC and ITV muxes which is forcing us to watch on analogue. Interestingly, the quality for the England 6 Nations match last weekend improved 10 mins prior to the start and reverted to poor quality 10 minutes afterwards. How frequently are they turning down the power and why is it so bad in the evenings anfd after dark?
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Monday, 28 March 2011
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kieran r10:44 AM
there is engineering works on hannington digital switchover has started :]
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Mike Dimmick4:23 PM
Tony: There were no planned power reductions during the last week.
As I understand it, the engineers work to ordinary working hours and if work is required on the mast itself (rather than the transmitter equipment at ground level) it must be carried out during daylight. The exceptions seem to be power testing and the actual switchover itself which are carried out between midnight and 6am.
Problems experienced in evenings and after dark are more usually to do with the changes in how signals reflect off different layers in the atmosphere, as they cool off. On clear nights, there can be an 'inversion', cool layers nearer the ground which cause signals to reflect. This is termed 'tropospheric enhancement'. For more information see http://www.dxinfocentre.com/propagation/tr-modes.htm. (That site is written from the perspective of *wanting* distant transmissions - here, you don't want them because they cause interference.)
Hook is in the sector of Hannington's analogue coverage area that is not intended to be covered by its digital transmissions. Hannington's current low power digital transmissions use the same frequencies as the Guildford transmitter's analogue transmissions which - until switchover - take priority. Digital UK show no prediction for your postcode. It is not expected to work with any reliability at present.
The aim is for post-switchover digital transmissions to cover the same area as pre-switchover analogue transmissions, and Hannington should give you a good service from the middle of next year. If you can't wait that long, consider using Crystal Palace, satellite, or cable. (RG47SH)
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Tuesday, 29 March 2011
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Ian R10:10 AM
Hook
Hi Tony. I, too, point at Hannington from Hook. My post elsewhere describes recent problems with losing everything on MUX2 on three out of four TV tuners unless I connect them to PVR (Smartbox) tuners. I've tried elimination of household interference, etc. without effect Short term answer for you may be to acquire a decent PVR (perhaps borrow friends' first to see what might work). Else we await 2012 or seek Crystal Palace.
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