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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Friday, 16 March 2012
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Dave6:14 PM
Further update from Digital UK: Chanels 41 and 44 no longer working in many areas served by Hannington as they are now being used by Crystal Palace until 4th April. Also Channel 47 on very low power until April 4th. So, many people served by Hannington have been suffering in order to maintain analogue services to Crystal Palace until their 4th April swichover. Cannot find out who made this decision but bottom line is that those affected on Hannington will have to wait until April 4th to get good reception again on Channels 41,44 and 47.
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Mike Dimmick7:12 PM
Dave: Rubbish, Crystal Palace is not, cannot, and never will use C44 or C47.
The restricted aerial is there to protect analogue services at the Guildford relay (a relay *of* Crystal Palace, true), and that restriction has been in place since 1998. All that's happened is that, since switchover, the PSBs are no longer subject to the restriction. The further round to due east of Hannington you are, the greater the difference between PSB and COM power levels there is. Some boxes cannot handle large differences between power levels, particularly on adjacent frequencies.
The most likely impact is that the COM services will be *less reliable* than the PSBs - it doesn't necessarily imply that you'll lose them completely, but it means that you're more likely to lose them or suffer break-up in adverse weather conditions.
The commercial multiplex operators *have* been permitted to switch to a less robust mode without a sufficient corresponding power increase, which does mean that some people outside the 'Guildford notch' will have a less reliable service than before switchover. I haven't yet asked Ofcom why this has been permitted.
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Saturday, 17 March 2012
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Dave7:30 PM
Thanks Mike. I only reported what Digital UK told me so it sounds like they do not know what they are talking about !!!
Their website and the person that called me from Digital UK both say that we will get full service, meaning all the channels we have been used to, and good reception on all of them from April 4th onwards. Let's hope they are right about that peice of information !!!
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er10:27 PM
Andover
Completely lost signals tonight for reasons undetermined.
Anyone else lost signals since last night?
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er11:08 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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Joan2:21 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. Smith6:03 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. Smith6:07 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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jb388:58 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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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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