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.

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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.

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, 250 BBC Red Button, plus 16 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),
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, 109 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 Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 Great! Movies Action, 57 Dave ja vu, 58 ITVBe +1, 59 ITV3 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 CBS Reality, 69 HorrorXtra, 78 TCC, 81 Blaze +1, 89 ITV4 +1, 91 WildEarth, 203 CITV, 208 Pop Player, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, plus 16 others
COM5 ArqA	H -3dB	C43 (650.0MHz)	359m	DTG-8	25,000W
	Smithsonian Channel, 11 Sky Arts, 17 Really, 19 Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 pick, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 Drama +1, 70 Quest +1, 71 That's 60s, 74 Yesterday +1, 75 That's 70s, 233 Sky News, plus 9 others
COM6 ArqB	H -3dB	C46 (674.0MHz)	359m	DTG-8	25,000W
	Quest Red +1, Classic Hits, 12 Quest, 25 W, 27 Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! romance, 73 HobbyMaker, 76 That's 80s, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 83 Together TV, 84 PBS America, 90 Together TV +1, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 19 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?

Andy Fraser

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10:12 AM

Nick: I think your best option is to wait 10 days for the second stage of the when all signals should improve significantly.

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Dave Lindsay

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10:55 AM

The commercial multiplexes will increase on 22nd February. However, they will continue to be radiated using the pre- array which is not omni-directional (it throws out less in the direction of ).

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10:58 AM

I should add that the situation with the commercial multiplexes will change on 18th April and they will switch to using their final .

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Nick
4:26 PM

Thanks Andy, I will do. However I am confused as to how I can receive other relatively low powered muxes such as C and D but not 2 and A (which have a higher than the forementioned muxes)!

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4:31 AM

- BBC TV Very Weak ; related from 13:55 on 08 Feb to 01:28 on 09 Feb BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:28 on 09 Feb to 04:34 on 09 Feb BBC ONE Weak Signal from 11:31 on 08 Feb to 01:28 on 09 Feb BBC ONE Off Air from 01:28 on 09 Feb to 04:34 on 09 Feb [BBC]

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4:31 AM

- BBC TV Very Weak ; related from 13:55 on 08 Feb to 01:28 on 09 Feb BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:28 on 09 Feb to 04:34 on 09 Feb BBC ONE Weak Signal from 11:31 on 08 Feb to 01:28 on 09 Feb BBC ONE Off Air from 01:28 on 09 Feb to 04:34 on 09 Feb [BBC]

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10:30 AM

- BBC TV Very Weak ; related from 13:55 on 08 Feb to 01:28 on 09 Feb BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:28 on 09 Feb to 04:34 on 09 Feb BBC ONE Weak Signal from 11:31 on 08 Feb to 01:28 on 09 Feb BBC ONE Off Air from 01:28 on 09 Feb to 04:34 on 09 Feb [BBC] Over the next week Hannington main transmitter: TV (analogue) working normally, TV (digital) working normally, Radio (analogue) Liable to interruption, Radio (digital) working normally. [DUK]

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- BBC TV Very Weak ; related from 13:55 on 08 Feb to 01:28 on 09 Feb BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:28 on 09 Feb to 04:34 on 09 Feb BBC ONE Weak Signal from 11:31 on 08 Feb to 01:28 on 09 Feb BBC ONE Off Air from 01:28 on 09 Feb to 04:34 on 09 Feb [BBC] Over the next week Hannington main transmitter: TV (analogue) working normally, TV (digital) working normally, Radio (analogue) Liable to interruption, Radio (digital) working normally. [DUK]

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Andy Fraser

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11:01 AM

Nick: 40, 43, & 46 are all used by , which is transmitted at a much higher . It is probably upsetting your Freeview tuner even though it may be coming off-axis to your .

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Andy Fraser

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11:04 AM

Nick: I suffer from the same problem and I've found that some tuners cope better than others with this. I have also found that fitting an attenuator can in some cases. Having said all that though, I think it's probably easier to just wait 9 days and reassess the situation.

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