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, 7 April 2012
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Adrian12:23 PM
Wokingham
Tony:
For Ch41, 44 and 47, I think the max. power after the 18th April will be 25Kw. Ch44 is already at 25Kw.
Ch 39, 42 and 45 will be 50Kw.
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trevor2:36 PM
Woking
tim wellby
people in Odiham are having a similar problem on ch.42 with breakup and bad pixelation,hope this ceases to be a problem on 18th....also i live in brookwood and on dso i lost itv not bbc2
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trevor's: mapT's Freeview map terrainT's terrain plot wavesT's frequency data T's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Adrian5:10 PM
Wokingham
trevor:
Ch42 on Hannington is already at max. power.
Only ch41 and 47 will increase in power on the 18th April. I've just checked on my TV now, and ch42 is 100% for both signal strength and quality.
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jb386:01 PM
trevor: You are predicted as being able to have far in away better reception from Crystal Palace (especially from the 18th) over that of Hannington, as Hannington's main PSB transmitters although indicating good leave a little to be desired, and with the commercial muxes not indicated at as being able to provide signals above the status of poor at any time, this right into the future.
Adrian on the other hand and who has just replied to you, IS indicated as being in a position where Hannington is the best, and with Crystal Palace taking second place.
Obviously local conditions (obstructions etc) might well be applying in these areas and predictors don't necessarily take this type of situation into account, but that's the predictions seen for the code provided.
Just purely for a test, although Crystal Palace is about 40 degrees out from the rear of your aerial you should give CP's high powered (200kw) BBC1 a manual tune test to see the level indicated, it being on Ch23.
By the way on most equipment, if you go into the manual tuning screen as soon as you enter the channel number you intend to scan its level will immediately be indicated, this without actually having to scan it.
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KMJ,Derby9:01 PM
trevor: Since 4th April 2012 analogue ITV1 from Crystal Palace is transmitted on C33 instead of BBC2. Digital Mux BBCA is transmitted on C23 instead of analogue ITV1. This means that your analogue TV now has ITV1 on button 2 and nothing on button 3.
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Monday, 9 April 2012
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shen shkavvie noel penop6:17 PM
hello im havving trouble in c41 no citv for my children and theay get realy peed of help
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Adrian7:37 PM
Shen:
You posted at 6:17PM - CITV only broadcasts from 6AM to 6PM.
Have you followed the re-tune instructions here below? :
My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+1, has no sound or the channel line up is wrong | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
(RG415DA)
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Saturday, 14 April 2012
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tim welby11:18 AM
Wondering if anyone can explain something. I have been looking at the levels for the different groups of channels. We are receiving PBS1 perfectly- my question is why are we not receiving PBS2 at all? According to the information at the top on levels PBS2 should be at 50,000 already - ie the same signal strength as PBS1.
Just to confuse things more we are picking up Coms 5 (not as well as PBS1 but alright) and that is only broadcasting on 10,000.
Why are we picking up channels broadcasting at 10,000 but failing to pick up some of the channels at 50,000. This may all be resolved on the final switch over date but just seems strange. Any explanation?
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tim welby: I believe that the above is not entirely correct.
The Digital UK Tradeview predictor says that the positive offset is on PSB3 (i.e. C39+) and not PSB2. Furthermore, COM4 does not have a positive offset either. Briantist, you might like to look at this.
The Ofcom document, apparently updated January 2012, also says that Hannington's channels are not offset except PSB3:
http://stakeholders.ofcom….pdf
Also, COM5 is on its full DSO power of 25kW. COM4 and COM6 remain on low power until 18th April when the Guildford transmitter relinquishes use of these channels.
Tim, before I started, having simply looked at the channels at the top of this page, I was going to suggest that your problem may be that your receiver can't cope with the positive offset employed by PSB2, but I don't believe that this is the case.
I have been reading through your earlier postings that you made since switchover. You seem to have been having alot of issues since switchover.
As Mike Dimmick explained ( Freeview on Hannington TV transmitter | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice ) the difference between pre-switchover signal strength and post-switchover strength in your direction is huge. You may have had an aerial installed that was sensitive enough to pick up the pre-DSO signals, but which is now drawing in too much signal and overloading your tuner.
The reason for the marked difference is due to the fact that pre-DSO signals were considerably weaker in the general direction of Guildford (the "Guildford notch") in which you reside. This was so as to protect those using Guildford transmitter against interference as the two shared channels. So you have gone from having low low low signals to high ones.
Have you tried fitting an attenuator?
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tim welby8:29 PM
Thanks for your thoughts.
Pre first switch over date we didnt get any signal on any digital channel at all- so there has obviously been a huge improvement. However as you rightly point out, while some of our issues since switchover can probably be attributed to issues to do with Hannington, there are probably some problems within our system as well.
We are waiting till the completion of switch over before we worry about changing our system in any way. After this point we will look into an attenuator and other things.
I was looking up the positive offset (my background is pure mathematics not anything technical) is there something I should do to deal with that.
In my post it was really something that I found interesting that channels I got perfectly (the bbc multiplex) and PSB2 claimed to be the same power yet one comes through perfectly and the other not at all. I hadn't considered that the information at the top could be wrong- you may well be right. It was really a matter of interest rather than anything else.
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