Full Freeview on the Hannington (Hampshire, England) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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51.308,-1.245 or 51°18'28"N 1°14'43"W

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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.

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name

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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.

Mux	H/V	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	H max	C45 (666.0MHz)	362m	DTG-	50,000W
	1 BBC One (SD) South, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others
PSB2 D3+4	H max	C42 (642.0MHz)	362m	DTG-	50,000W
	3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian/Central (Thames Valley micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Meridian south coast), 71 That’s 60s,
PSB3 BBCB	H max	C39+ (618.2MHz)	362m	DTG-	50,000W
	46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others 66 TBN UK,
COM4 SDN	H -3dB	C40 (626.0MHz)	362m	DTG-8	25,000W
	20 U&Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 U&Dave ja vu, 58 ITV3 +1, 59 ITV4 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 91 WildEarth, 93 ITVBe +1, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 251 Al Jazeera English, 255 FRANCE 24 (in English), 265 Rok Sky +1, plus 29 others
COM5 ArqA	H -3dB	C43 (650.0MHz)	359m	DTG-8	25,000W
	11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 U&Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 U&Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 &UYesterday +1, 76 That's TV 2 MCR, 233 Sky News, plus 13 others
COM6 ArqB	H -3dB	C46 (674.0MHz)	359m	DTG-8	25,000W
	12 Quest, 25 U&W, 27 U&Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 63 GREAT! romance mix, 73 HobbyMaker, 75 That's 90s, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

DTG-8 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		C5_waves	C5_waves
C39	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	+BBCB	BBCB
C40					SDN
C41				SDN
C42	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	D3+4	D3+4
C43					ArqA
C44				ArqA
C45	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBCA	BBCA
C46					ArqB
C47				ArqB
C51_{tv_off}				_local
C55_{tv_off}					com7_{tv_off}
C56_{tv_off}					COM8_{tv_off}
C66	C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves

_{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

Local transmitter maps

Hannington Freeview Hannington DAB Hannington AM/FM Hannington TV region BBC South Meridian/Central (Thames Valley micro region)

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Hannington transmitter area

Aug 1958-Jan 1992	Southern Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992	Television South (TVS)
Jan 1993-Dec 2006	Meridian
Dec 2006-Feb 2009	ITV Thames Valley
Feb 2009-Dec 2014	ITV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Hannington was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

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John
8:09 PM

Thanks everyone. Always reassuring to know it is not a problem in our own installation.

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WS
8:13 PM

Absolutely whatsoever in HR5. Nothing.

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mark
8:21 PM
Southampton

John: retuned, picking up everything now but berks option only not 'south' as i usually get, troposherics have been suggested. working ok for now hopefully all be clear by tomorrow and a retune will be back to normal for everyone. funny that my cheapo upstairs is picking up isle of wight with no problems at all!?! if the box doesnt record doc martin the wifes going to kill me, good night.

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Jane Bruce
8:31 PM

North of ITV lost and has been like it since we switched on a approx 20:00. Still no reported problems?

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Mary Middleton
8:39 PM
Henley-on-thames

Jane Bruce: north of , no ITV since some time last night I RECORDED DOWNTON ABBEY AND GOT NOTHING!!! re-tuned 10 mins ago and lost all channels. had to clear the lot by pulling out the and doing a setup, then putting aerial back in and doing another setup. everything looks ok now. why is it so unreliable? I am absolutely SICK of my TV service disappearing without notice, having a so bad I get recordings with pixellation and half way through packing up with a Bad Signal or No Service message

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John Green
8:41 PM
Wolverhampton

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Just resetting and tuning.
Had terrible problems on and off all day.
Thank goodness I've found this site.
Disconnected TV, and Ariel.
Retuned with Ariel out.
Now retuned with Ariel in.
BUT
How do I know if I am on Wrekin or Sut Col ?
Also there is a big Ariel on the Severn Trent Depot. It has been there for a few years.
Never had a problem on the old system.
Since , frequent fragmenting of , frequent on several .

Someone sent me one plug in device. I have additional boxes or TV's with Freeview.

Where do I put this device, does it cover all units and if not how do I get more free ones, for some new interruption protection caused by others.

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John Green
8:45 PM
Wolverhampton

Having retuned, still having problems on fragmenting on 1,2,3 and so on.
What next please?

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Robert Hussey
8:19 AM

Cowes Isle of Wight. 2nd day of problems, neighbours having the same. I have retuned and reset 4 times now. Is there a problem somewhere? This DTV is rubbish it was better when I had to keep moving the arial round 30 years ago!!!!!

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Steve
10:24 AM

Why is there no TV in Liphook, Hampshire since about 5:30pm yesterday?

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Steve Flynn
10:59 AM
Haslemere

It is clear that there is a severe problem with from this despite this site and the linked site claiming there is no problem.

Is there any way to report this transmitter fault or complain to the operator?

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