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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.

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Which Freeview channels does the Hannington transmitter broadcast?

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Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 H max
C45 (666.0MHz)362mDTG-50,000W
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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)362mDTG-50,000W
Channel icons
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)362mDTG-50,000W
Channel icons
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

COM4
SDN
 H -3dB
C40 (626.0MHz)362mDTG-825,000W
Channel icons
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)359mDTG-825,000W
Channel icons
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)359mDTG-825,000W
Channel icons
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?

regional news image
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 46km south-southwest (194°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
regional news image
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?

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EEEB E TW T
C32com7
C34com8
C35C5wavesC5waves
C39BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves+BBCBBBCB
C40SDN
C41SDN
C42ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C43ArqA
C44ArqA
C45BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCA
C46ArqB
C47ArqB
C51tv_off_local
C55tv_offcom7tv_off
C56tv_offCOM8tv_off
C66C4wavesC4wavesC4waves

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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

Aug 1958-Jan 1992Southern Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992Television South (TVS)
Jan 1993-Dec 2006Meridian
Dec 2006-Feb 2009ITV Thames Valley
Feb 2009-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV 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.

Comments
Thursday, 21 April 2011
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TVTUNER
9:16 PM

The Norn Hill area is ok for digital provided you have a good outside aerial. If you haven't then that is likely to be your problem.

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Friday, 22 April 2011
Saturday, 30 April 2011
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Peter
10:42 PM

Yeah bank holiday paid fot tv license.

Top of the range Sony led.

And ?

Fuc.... haninngton low signal in Andover.

Whats going on this is like back 30years ago.

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Tuesday, 3 May 2011
Friday, 6 May 2011
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Mark peterson
2:14 PM

Camberley resident. Free view signal strength down at 20db, analogue 50-60db. Arial company suggests waiting till cutover as he suggests signal strength on dig will then be up at analogue levels (masked due to overlap with Guildford?). They suggest investing in new arial/amp would be expensive, may only be 80 percent effective as analogue may then swamp digital). Does this all make sense, is cutover feb 2012 or apr/may? Will digital strength then be 'turned up'?
Thanks for the advice

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Mike Dimmick
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4:15 PM

Mark Peterson: Yes, this is expected. Hannington's current digital signals are restricted to the east - the aerial panels are mounted on the north-west corner of the mast and they point south, west and north. So while the maximum ERP of Freeview transmissions from Hannington is only 11 dB down on maximum analogue transmissions, that only applies in the served sector.

We don't know exactly what the limits are on Hannington's radiation pattern, but the levels you're getting do sound about right. A new aerial might give you the extra 10 dB of gain - it's always preferable to upgrade the aerial before adding amplification. Replacing the cables may also reduce the loss between the aerial and the TV, and reduce the amount of noise picked up.

They're right to warn about too much signal. It causes a problem called intermodulation, where the signal is distorted, causing frequency-shifted copies of the stronger signals to be created. The strongest 'intermodulation products' appear in adjacent channels. It's generally considered that keeping analogue signal levels below 80 dBuV is enough to prevent intermodulation. I believe the recommended digital limit of 65 dBuV is based on the average difference between analogue and digital levels.

At switchover, the digital services move to the unrestricted main antenna at the top of the mast, because they will no longer clash with Guildford primary services (as they take over Hannington's analogue frequencies).

The switchover dates are now final: 8 February and 22 February 2012. On the 8th, low-power Mux 1 and BBC Two analogue are switched off, and high-power BBC A launches from the main antenna. On the 22nd, all remaining analogue and low-power digital services are switched off and replaced by their high-power digital equivalents.

The commercial multiplexes will stay at 20 kW until Guildford switches over on the 4th and 18th of April. It's possible they won't move to the main antenna until these dates.

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Mike Dimmick
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

4:19 PM

I should add that Hannington digital is already very powerful - for the served sector - relative to the analogue signal levels, and to post-switchover power levels. The PSB muxes will only increase 4 dB and the COM muxes only 1 dB. The current low-power Mux C and D increase by 3 dB in June, from 10 kW to 20 kW, I believe to reduce problems when Sudbury switches over in July.

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Thursday, 19 May 2011
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David Williams
4:16 PM

Hi, can you please tell me why so many people in the Basingstoke area have a much weaker signel and a higher error rate on the CH43 ITV MUX2 compared to CH50 BBC or other digital channels?

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Saturday, 28 May 2011
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Dave M
11:28 PM
Hook

Post code RG27 0AY , signal was always weak on all digital freeview channels with ariel pointing towards Hannington S/SW from location), trying to install TV with built in freeview but not picking up any digital channels at all. Can get very fuzzy analogue channels , external ariel was erected December 10. Any ideas on how to get something ???

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