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 withheldMonday, 8 October 2012
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mandy 4:28 PM
St. Leonards-on-sea
my postcode is tn37 6bz there are 24 flats in my building and we all have no signal at the moment can you tell me whats wrong please
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mandy : The aerial system will have a powered amplifier for distribution of the feed from the aerial. The likely answer is that either it has failed or there is no power to it. Either way it is down to the party responsible for the aerial system to put it right or have it put right. It may be worth speaking to your landlord, although clearly there isn't likely to be anything done about it today.
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Wednesday, 17 October 2012
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Steve8:17 PM
The HD channels from the Hastings transmitter flicker from time to time, very quick to a black screen then back to output. It doesn't affect the sound just picture. Is this a problem experienced by anyone else?
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Monday, 27 May 2013
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PeterP11:10 PM
Hastings - Channel 700-710 problems + BBC SD services not working (1,2, bbc3,bbc4).
All other TV channels fine. BBC HD working OK.
DAB radio works without issue.
Tried retuning, finds channels but they just all say no signal.
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Wednesday, 29 May 2013
PeterP
3:01 PM
3:01 PM
Thanks, I'm onto something :) with helpful hints from Hollington Pk thread.
Seems I'm not on Hollington park (bad reception despite being close) but Hastings.
The problem is when I use auto tuning it uses ch24 for bbca when it should be using ch25.
Why this has changed I don't know, and as I said was fine before. All good now though until next glitch.
My tv has an LNA setting, it now says 25 and it's on. Before it was 22 I think. How it got to this ??? I can't see any way to even set it. does ch22 transmit the wrong info to tell my tv how to tune?
So, I did a test, Turned it off again and did a rescan. Still managed to set itself to 25.
I can't set a 'zone' i.e. Kent, but i do have digital auto service update. Clearly something got out of whack, whether it be a mistake or a different transmitter ot something I don't know. No local transmitters with 24 at all, so it's a mystery :)
Tv is 1yr old Sony bravia with latest firmware etc. no changes before problem at all!
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Saturday, 15 June 2013
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Tim Kaye2:34 PM
Eastbourne
I am living at BN23 7AD and using the Hastings Transmitter (Roof Aerial) and am currently experiencing picture break-up only on ITV4. This happens mostly during the day and is usually OK at night. Could this be due to some interference.
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Tim's: mapT's Freeview map terrainT's terrain plot wavesT's frequency data T's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tim Kaye: I suggest that, if possible, you use Heathfield instead.
Hastings' COM channels (which carry ITV3, Pick TV, Film4, ITV4, Dave and others) are co-channel (same frequencies) with the Public Service (PSB) channels of the Eastbourne relay transmitter which is on the top of South Cliff Tower.
Unfortunately the COM channels are only available from the larger transmitters and the channels they are allocated are often re-used in closer proximity than the PSB channels. For this reason not everyone can pick them up reliably, or at all.
In your general area it may be beneficial to change to using Heathfield in order to receive all channels.
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Saturday, 28 September 2013
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lorraine farrow7:59 AM
Hastings
hi anyone ales have trouble with the hd channels last evening keep going to no signal all the other channels where fine up till 11 then bbca and ds3+4 muxs did the same as the hd's for like 15 mins then they came back yet all the coms where fine and this morning there all ok even the hd's fist time i have ever had a problem since switch over my postcode is tn37 7eq
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lorraine's: mapL's Freeview map terrainL's terrain plot wavesL's frequency data L's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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daniel badman9:44 AM
Hastings
re: lorraine same here at tn35 5ef it was fine all evening and then john bishop came on and about 11 it started to brake up and say no signal and i can see the transmitter from my house and use a log aerial funny thing was when i cheeked the sq and ss on my lg tv the ss was 100% but the sq was 20% same on ds 3+4 and like you say the coms seemed fine i cant speck for the hd channels as i dont have a hd freeview box i normal get 100ss and sq all the time
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daniel's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 29 December 2015
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Peter Exley10:56 AM
We have digital tv and a humax freeview box, a roof aerial and a 2 way aerial amplifier.
Over the last five days the signal has broken up making watching almost pointless. We reset both the tv and humax box and have restored the bbc and itv channels but not the channels above number 10 including sky news, RT and al jaziira.
There has been no reported problems with the Hastings transmitter.
Have you any advice ?
Thank you.
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