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
kate: The most likely C24 signal is that from Rowridge which on the Isle of Wight and is the main transmitter serving a large portion of the south coast.
Sometimes it's possible to unplug the aerial for part of the automatic tuning scan to miss out unwanted signals. However, Rowridge and Hastings all use neighbouring channels.
If you can wipe your tuner's memory, and manually tune to Hastings, then that is probably the best thing to do. Whether you can do that depends on the design of the device.
For Hastings you need to manually tune:
25, 28, 22(HD), 23, 26 and 30
See above for which services each carries.
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Kate9:18 PM
Thanks, i did a factory reset and manually added them in, all working now. Thanks for all your help.
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Friday, 29 June 2012
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Mark Fletcher12:34 AM
Hastings
Daniel Badman.Hastings TN35 5EF.
Thanks for correcting me concerning your location,i sometimes make wee errors in leaving a nearby location when i assist others on this forum as such.
As for your earlier text dated Thursday 28 June 2012,8.48pm,was there a brief electrical fault or a thunderstorm in your locality that caused the brief loss of signal you mentioned while you watched the footy ?
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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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Mark Fletcher12:39 AM
Lytham St. Annes
Just like i did to my above post.St Annes not Hastings i am currently at.Sorry !
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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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Adrian Durrant10:43 AM
So... we see above what channels Hastings is broadcasting but what we can RECIEVE is another matter... having made an idiot of myself writing to the local paper saying I don't know what people are complaining about, I now see that despite being shown as broadcast from Hastings, 5USA and Film4 have actually gone from my screen. And yes, I have done automatic and manual re-scans, unplugged the power supply and aerial and tried again... it's unbelievable that neighbouring transmitters are using the same frequencies. Probably not worth re-aligning to Heathfield, will probably just be swapping those missing channels for others. What a shambles.
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Adrian Durrant11:09 AM
Sorry... please delete that, and this post. In fact, all is well. The jewellery show is just playing on those channels until something better comes on, I panicked and thought they'd replaced those two channels. ooops!!
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Adrian Durrant: Unfortunately the UK now has a two-tier terrestrial transmitter network.
Those who can only receive from Eastbourne South Cliff Tower will only ever receive the Public Service (PSB) channels, as will around 8.5% of the population. This is because the 1,000 or so small relays like Eastbourne only carry those channels and of the 81 transmitters that do carry a full service, some viewers will only pick up the Public Service channels. The transmission power of the COM channels from Hastings is lower than that of the PSBs.
The general plan is that Public Service channels are receiveable after switchover without need to change aerial. Some people will require a different aerial to receive COM channels as well.
As part of switchover, UHF channels 31 to 37 were ringfenced to be sold off to three more Commercial operators, whose future networks will no doubt mirror those of the current quasi-national Commercial networks.
Had these channels not been set aside, then there would have been more available and hence clashes like which exists in the Eastbourne area with reception of the COM signals from Hastings transmitter would have been less likely.
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Adrian Durrant: Digital reception either works or it doesn't; there is very little in the middle, hence people talk about the "cliff-edge".
You may find that sometimes it works and at other times it doesn't, either because the interference from Eastbourne is a little stronger or because the signal isn't quite as good from Hastings or a bit of both.
If you are in an area with good reception of Heathfield, then that might be a better bet. If your Hastings aerial is a Group A one, then it won't really be suitable for Heathfield. However, as Hastings' pre-switchover digital signals were not all in Group A, I suspect that there is a fair chance that you have a wideband aerial, and this will be suitable for Heathfield, so long as it is sensitive on its Group B channels.
Failing that, you may be able to have the aerial mounted where it gets sufficient signal from Hastings, but where it is screened from Eastbourne, for example by mounting it on one side of the house and using the house to block the unwanted signal.
Obviously any changes should only be carried out by someone who is proficient at going up on to the roof in a safe manner.
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Adrian Durrant11:57 AM
Dave, many thanks, very interesting & great advice generally for anyone with problems of the nature discussed; I do apologise profusely, as I said above, I CAN actually receive all the channels. I can actually SEE both the Heathfield and Hastings channels from my roof and yet as I say, it turns out after all that I have no problems or at least am getting at least everything I did before, possibly since Eastbourne transmitter is behind my aerial and Heathfield is sideways-on and the wrong polarisation... as I said, I wrote to the local rag then saw the problems people were talking about here and paniicked that i'd got my facts wrong. But seems all is well, thanks again.
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Adrian Durrant11:59 AM
PS Regarding re-aligning, best in my case to leave well alone for the time being; my aerial is the Triax 100 which I reckon probably has too high gain to be pointed at Heathfield.
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