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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.

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Which Freeview channels does the Hastings 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
 V max
C25 (506.0MHz)123mDTG-1,000W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) South East, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 16 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
C28 (530.0MHz)123mDTG-1,000W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian (East 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
 V max
C22 (482.0MHz)123mDTG-1,000W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South East, 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
 V max
C23 (490.0MHz)121mDTG-81,000W
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
 V max
C26 (514.0MHz)123mDTG-81,000W
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
 V max
C30- (545.8MHz)123mDTG-81,000W
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)

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?

regional news image
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 37km northwest (323°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
regional news image
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-80s1984-971997-981998-20122012-1317 Jul 2018
VHFA K TA K TA K TA K TA K T
C4BBCtvwaves
C22BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBCBBBCB
C23SDNSDN
C25BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCA
C26ArqAArqA
C28ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C30-ArqBArqB
C32C4wavesC4wavesC4waves
C35C5wavesC5waves

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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 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

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

Aug 1958-Jan 1992Southern Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992Television South (TVS)
Jan 1993-Feb 2004Meridian
Feb 2004-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. Hastings 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?

Radiation patterns withheld

Comments
Friday, 15 June 2012
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MF
7:35 PM

I do not know why we are talking about this type of solution, we should all be complaining to OFCOM as to why they allowed the same frequencies to be used for different services 17 miles apart. If they had used different channels for Eastbourne none of this would be relevant and nobody would be looking at having to spend extra money to retain services!!!
Poor planning should be changed immediately.

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Saturday, 16 June 2012
Dave Lindsay
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1:12 AM

Malcolm Wood: I'm not sure how effective that might be or whether it may have an adverse effect on the sensitivity and directivity of your aerial. I'm not an RF engineer, so I can only but wonder:

- The interferer is at 90 degrees to the desired signal. Will putting foil on one side somehow unbalance the aerial and affect its directivity/sensitivity properties?

- The closer you put the foil to the aerial, the more affect it will have on it.

- The further away from the aerial you put the foil, the more the interfering signal will "get around" it and hence the larger the piece of foil will need to be to achieve the same effect.


In any case, choose whether you mount the aerial in the loft or on the back of the house, you may find that in certain weather conditions that reception isn't as good. I'm thinking that it's not so much that reception from Hastings might reduce in quality (although perhaps it might), but maybe the interfering signal might degrade reception more at times.

As I say, I'm not an expert in RF, so these are just my own musings. Perhaps one of the pros could chip in with some suggestions for Malcolm.

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Dave Lindsay
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1:20 AM

MF: I'm not sure what is to be gained by complaining.

There are other places where similar effects have manifested themselves after switchover. Local relays usually degrade or make impossible the reception of the COM channels for those who do not use the relays (as the relays don't carry the COMs).

I imagine that it's been done in such a way as to minimise the number of people who end up loosing channels that they could get before.

There is also the fact that channels 31 to 37 and 61 to 68 have, or will soon be cleared. The former were or are to be auctioned for more Commercial multiplexes and the latter sold off to 4G mobile operators.

So the reduction in the number of available channels has played its part in creating situations where transmitters are co-channel in closer proximities where in days of old they would never have been.

It's the way things are done these days. The COMs do not have the extensive coverage that the PSBs do. All that's happened is a few people have lost access to them or have had it made difficult.

Others on here have reported this problem with Hastings' COMs being wiped out by Eastbourne and have said that they will have to look at changing to Heathfield. Unfortunately Malcolm isn't in a position to do likewise.

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Monday, 18 June 2012
M
Malcolm Wood
6:17 PM

I came across this article regarding the use of two aerials spaced apart with the output spliced.

http://www.wrightsaerials….pdf

Apparently a null is produced at 90deg if the spacing is wavelength and varying the spacing changes the angle of the null produced. Could this be the answer? (BN208HA)

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Wednesday, 27 June 2012
C
Collette Murphy
8:10 PM

27th June - no reception whatsoever. We have been getting a mix of digital channels since the last changeover deadline, none of them particularly brilliantly. Why should I pay a licence fee when there is nothing to watch?

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Ian
8:31 PM

Just lost all channels except bbc1 etc. bbc2 has started blocking now bbc1 ok. Happened just before 8pm. Camberley pointing at Crystal Palace. Aerial professionally installed within last 18 months. Have tried different freeview boxes

All we can get is football!

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Dave Lindsay
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

8:34 PM

Collette Murphy: The Licence Fee does not guarantee reception of signals and it does not provide support with reception issues.

If you are using a television receiver, then by law you must have a TV Licence. If you sell all your receivers, then you can stop paying your TV Licence.

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Mark Fletcher
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8:39 PM
Lytham St. Annes

Collette Murphy.Unless you leave a full postcode or nearby location as such,we cannot be of valuable assistance to you.
As for your last sentence,everybody who receives television viewing equipment whether it be the TV itself,video or digital versatile disc recorder even the personal computer and mobile phone,etc,still have to pay the licence fee whether they view it all the time or not at all.Absurd it may be but that is the law im afraid,i myself dont watch much TV but i still have to pay for my own TV licence,whether i like it or not.
If you want to avoid paying the TV licence fee then you will have to ditch all TV viewing equipment altogether,not just the TV.

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Ian
8:43 PM
Camberley

Some channels coming back now. Itv1, more 4 seem to be working probably a few others. Without knowing what is on each mux, I guess we lost some of these.

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Thursday, 28 June 2012
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Daniel Badman
10:18 AM
Dover

well that was fun last night been the 27th june 21012 me and all my neighbours lost most chanels for like a hour then they all came back and at one point we had no bbca mux for bout 15mins and the mux with itv1 had full signal but a black screen must have been the wether i hope coz its fine today

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