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, 27 August 2012
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jb388:00 PM
Beryl foote: Yes, but digital radio uses far lower frequencies to that used by Freeview, and as such is not affected in the same way by the atmospheric induced problems that Freeview is prone to suffering from.
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Tuesday, 28 August 2012
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Richard Knight12:37 PM
Bracknell
Hi -
I'm in Bracknell - quite high with a good line of sight towards Hannington.
My aerial currently points towards Crystal Palace, but I've had a 3-storey block of flats built next-door, directly in line with Crystal Palace, which has reduced the quality of my signal.
Would you advise re-aligning my aerial towards Hannington?
The distances are similar, but I've noticed that Hannington is a far less powerful transmitter!
Many Thanks - Richard Knight
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Richard's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Richard Knight: If your aerial is a Group A (red tip) which it may be (for Crystal Palace), then this won't really be suited to Hannington, which uses all Group B channels. If it is a wideband aerial, then you may be able to realign it on Hannington.
See:
Aerials, TV Aerial and Digital Aerial
If you have line-of-sight to Hannington at 22 miles then it would be expected to be OK.
A DM Log or Log 40 should do. See:
ATV`s Choice Of Aerials for digital TV
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Monday, 3 September 2012
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tim8:11 PM
It appears you are right about the interference problem, though it appears to be intermittent. I lost all channels I was having problems with (we had a power cut).
I put the laptop on standby, and did a rescan on the tv (having done one without changing anything)- magically I got the missing channels, however the same does not work for our freeview recorder.
As a test I then rescanned for channels on the TV and it found all the ArqB channels it failed to find before- this time with the laptop on.
So currently I have perfect signal on all freeview channels on the tv, but the recorder 30 cm below is missing all channels from arqB (not merely bad signal but none).
I suspect that I am simply in an area where ArqB is at its limit to cover, so minor factors cause it to drop in and out (or appear on one device but not another).
I spent some time turning devices off (at the wall) to attempt to find the device but was unable to improve things with any of them.
It is possible that it is nextdoor (we live in a terrace and I believe next door has there TV and other equipment against the other side of the wall) however as they use sky it is impossible to confirm this.
I suspect I wont work it out or solve the problem but it is curious how it seems ot work
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Tuesday, 4 September 2012
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RichardS2:56 AM
Fleet
Tim,
Very curious. I'm not convinced of your diagnosis: "simply in an area where ArqB is at its limit of cover" - I cannot see anything in the geography for you location which would make ArqB substantially worse than ArqA (Unless you're using a Group A aerial - in which case I'd expect BBCA to be pretty ropey; most Group A aerials have zero gain at C45 and above.)
When your TV is receiving ArqB channels successfully, what values do you get for signal strength/quality? How do these compare with the values for ArqA channels?
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Friday, 7 September 2012
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Albert Honey MBE10:09 PM
trLive in Faringon Oxon and fed up with the CONSTANT loss of all channels at approx. 10 pm
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Saturday, 8 September 2012
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F.Miners8:55 AM
Southampton
I live in Hythe and receive my tv signal from the Basingsotke direction. Since tv change over there has been poor or no reception in the early mornings 0600 to 0900. Later in the day there is good reception. Is there any reason for this caused by work at the transmitter?
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Sunday, 9 September 2012
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RichardS11:06 PM
F.Miners
The problem is probably caused by changing atmospheric conditions during the day - particularly over Winchester. You've only just got line-of-sight to Hannington and you might do better to get your signal from the vertically polarised transmitter at Rowbridge.
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Wednesday, 12 September 2012
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tim5:59 PM
Richard,
This is precisely why I am so curious. There appears to be no reason why ArqA and ArqB should be different at all, however with ArqA we get virtually perfect signal, with ArqB when we pick them they tend to appear perfect for approximately 30 seconds. At that point they start to break up and within seconds they are unwatchable - they stay this way till you change the channel and come back.
Thanks for any thoughts (I am writing this with my laptop on my knee, which means it cannot be the laptop (I didnt have a reason but thought it might be something tod o with it((
Tim
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Monday, 24 September 2012
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Simon6:21 PM
I'm Highclere: RG209RY 6 miles from Hannington, loft, log periodic, direct line of sight, 100% signal quality most of the time. Suddenly at weekend I lost ITV1, ITV4 etc. on mux 2 and my Humax 9200T has retuned, very unhelpfully, to Crystal Palace which is "blocky". (Amazing I get a picture at all from CP at that range). Done another retune and it's still finding CP in pref. to Hann. again on mux 2 and tuning to that. So my question is, is this a Hannington "Engineering works" and/or glitch issue or an issue with my Humax trying to be too clever and messing me up. Thoughts welcome :-)
p.s. The manual tuning process on this beast is an absolute nightmare, since it doesn't give you the ability to choose between two or more signals from different Tx's it just picks the first one it finds.
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