Full Freeview on the Hastings (East Sussex, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Hastings (East Sussex, England) transmitter which serves 18,000 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 Hastings (East Sussex, 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)
The Hastings (East Sussex, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which Freeview channels does the Hastings 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)
The Hastings (East Sussex, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Hastings transmitter?
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 37km northwest (323°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Maidstone ME14 5NZ, 47km north (357°)
to ITV Meridian (East) region - 36 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian plus Oxford
How will the Hastings (East Sussex, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 17 Jul 2018 | ||||
| VHF | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | ||||
| C4 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C22 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C23 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C25 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C26 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C28 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C30 | -ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C32 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C35 | C5waves | C5waves |
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 30 May 12 and 13 Jun 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4, Analogue 5, SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | 1000W | |
| Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-7dB) 200W | |
| Mux 1* | (-10dB) 100W |
Local transmitter maps
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldMonday, 30 December 2019
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Chris.SE1:58 PM
A Milton:
There are unusually high levels of "Tropospheric propagation" at present, often associated with High Pressure weather systems.
These levels of propagation are unusual at this time of year - they cause signals from more distant transmitters to travel a lot further than normal. It currently affecting different parts of the country by varying degrees and signals can change by the second or remain stable for much longer periods.
In the old "analogue" days there was a lot of talk about "continental" interference often in the summer months, but the interference can come from transmitters anywhere in the UK or Europe and even further afield. At the moment some people are getting DAB radio from the Netherlands and FM Radio from France as well as the interference to DTV.
You are advised NOT to retune whilst this continues which could be for a couple more days. Many have posted elsewhere about similar problems. People will however have noticed the unusually mild weather which the Met office is referring to as a "Foehn effect" but it's not helpful that it seems none of the major broadcasters are making any reference to the interference being caused to TV and Radio reception!
If you have retuned, you may have lost correct tuning. You will have to try again and it could be hit and miss whilst these conditions continue.
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Tuesday, 9 June 2020
Transmitter engineering
7:28 PM
7:28 PM
HASTINGS transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 12 Aug 14:29 until 12 Aug 14:36. . [BBC]
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Friday, 26 June 2020
Transmitter engineering
4:33 AM
4:33 AM
HASTINGS transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 26 Jun 04:20 until 26 Jun 04:41. . [BBC]
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Thursday, 16 July 2020
Transmitter engineering
1:28 PM
1:28 PM
HASTINGS transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to essential engineering from 16 Jul 11:13 until 16 Jul 11:29. . [BBC]
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Saturday, 22 August 2020
Transmitter engineering
1:09 PM
1:09 PM
HASTINGS transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 16 Aug 13:41 until 16 Aug 13:52. . [BBC]
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Thursday, 27 August 2020
Transmitter engineering
7:28 PM
7:28 PM
HASTINGS transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 27 Aug 17:01 until 27 Aug 17:08. . [BBC]
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Friday, 28 August 2020
Transmitter engineering
7:28 AM
7:28 AM
HASTINGS transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 28 Aug 06:41 until 28 Aug 06:47. Off the air due to a fault from 27 Aug 17:01 until 27 Aug 17:08. . [BBC]
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Thursday, 3 September 2020
Transmitter engineering
7:28 PM
7:28 PM
HASTINGS transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 28 Aug 06:41 until 28 Aug 06:47. . [BBC]
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Friday, 4 September 2020
Transmitter engineering
7:28 AM
7:28 AM
HASTINGS transmitter - DAB: Reduced quality due to a fault from 13 Aug 23:42 until 13 Aug 23:52. . [BBC]
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Thursday, 24 September 2020
Transmitter engineering
10:28 AM
10:28 AM
HASTINGS transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 24 Sep 08:55 until 24 Sep 08:59. . [BBC]
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