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
Hastings Freeview Hastings DAB Hastings TV region BBC South East Meridian (East micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Hastings transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldThursday, 28 June 2012
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Mark Fletcher2:00 PM
Lytham St. Annes
Daniel Badman,Dover.The inversion effect/atmospherics most likely was the culprit.
Or possibly too much signal as you and your neighbours reside very close to the Dover main transmitter itself !
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Mark's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Kate7:51 PM
Mux PSB1 (all digital BBC) have disappeared of the Hastings transmitter. Also local FM frequencies have gone off air (Arrow and Heart). Any ideas as to why?
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Daniel Badman7:58 PM
Hastings
hi Mark Fletcher im in hastings not dover lol my postcode is tn35 5ef
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Daniel's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Kate: If this has just happened now (in the evening), then I suggest that it isn't scheduled maintenance.
Arrow and Heart broadcast from the Hastings transmitter on 107.8MHz and 102MHz respectively.
The most common reason that a transmitter goes off the air is a power failure. The fact that TV and FM are off air makes this a possibility in view of it not appearing to be scheduled work.
BBC Reception says no problems for Hastings, so maybe it's only just happened.
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kate8:14 PM
Wondered if it's the weather affecting the freeview channels, as it happens when the weather is warm, thought it may have improved with the switchover, but seems not. No bbc, itv, channel 4 or 5 for large parts of the day and eve.
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kate: As the FM stations are off the air as well, I think that the weather is unlikely. Are all Freeview channels off?
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Kate8:27 PM
FM is back now, but freeview channels started going off yesterday,and still intermittently. Only have a few channels all the time such as Really,QVC, Yesterday and Dave, but all BBC and Channel 4, 5 are missing.
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Kate: I don't know then.
Check that for PSB1 and PSB2 that you are tuned to Hastings.
Bring up the signal strength screen on BBC One and check that it is tuned to UHF channel 25 and for ITV1 that it is C28.
Depending on your location, there are other possible PSB transmitters that your receiver could be picking up instead. Where this is the case, then it needs correcting.
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kate8:40 PM
yes, mine was set to UHF channel 24, so have changed it now, have all the BBC channels but they are at the end of the list in the 800's
Thanks for your help
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Daniel Badman8:48 PM
Hastings
just watching the footy and went no signal on all channels for about 3 to 4 secs but now all back fine so i phoned a few frends and they had the same thing y has this just stared had 2 weeks of perfict tv and now this err any healp wood be use full
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Daniel's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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