Full Freeview on the Heathfield (East Sussex, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Heathfield (East Sussex, England) transmitter which serves 170,000 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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Heathfield (East Sussex, England) mast?
Heathfield transmitter - Heathfield transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 18/11/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels 
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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.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Heathfield (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 Heathfield 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 Heathfield (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 Heathfield transmitter?
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 17km north (6°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Maidstone ME14 5NZ, 41km north-northeast (31°)
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 Heathfield (East Sussex, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 19 Jul 2018 | |||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | W T | W T | W T | K T | |||
| C29 | _local | _local | _local | _local | |||||
| C40 | SDN | ||||||||
| C41 | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | BBCA | |||||
| C42 | SDN | SDN | SDN | ||||||
| C43 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C44 | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | D3+4 | |||||
| C46 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C47 | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||||
| C49tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||
| C52tv_off | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | |||
| C64 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
| C67 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 | 100kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2* | (-18dB) 1.6kW | |
| Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-20dB) 1000W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Heathfield transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldThursday, 13 January 2011
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Rick in West Sussex4:44 PM
Recently bought a Sony KDL32EX301 (to replace KDL26S2000 which had a better picture by far, sadly now given away!)
Severe picture / sound breakup on all channels on Heathfield Mux 2 (Ch29).
Signal strength: High, Signal quality: Low to No signal.
Stand in front of / next to the set or put my hand on the top and everything is perfect - signal quality goes to Good - High.
No problems with any other Heathfield Mux.
Noise radiated by the receiver on or about 538MHz perhaps?
Retuned Mux 2 from Midhurst (2nd antenna) and no problem.
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Friday, 14 January 2011
Rick in West Sussex: Very hard to say without a postcode.
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Saturday, 15 January 2011
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Annie7:15 PM
Haywards Heath
I live in the postcode RH17 7GA, and I suddenly can't get any BBC channels- it started about a week ago. Intially it said no signal after working fine for years, then I rescanned the box, and now my box doesn't even register that they should exist. All the other channels are fine, just not the BBC ones- is it a transmitter fault? I run off the Heathfield one.
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Annie's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 17 January 2011
Annie: There is no transmitter fault, please can you see Freeview reception has changed? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice ?
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Thursday, 20 January 2011
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Roger in Eastbourne BN237:30 AM
Any idea when the Heathfield digital transmitter power will be increased as we can't get it in Eastbourne (BN23). With the switch-off date now only 12 months away, people will need time to see in their equipment works or if they need to buy new aerials or 'digiboxes' BEFORE they switch analogue off.
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Roger in Eastbourne BN23: June 2012 (projected), as above, is the date the services are replaced with high power digital.
Sorry, but that's not "12 months away" but 17 months.
You will need a new aerial in Eastbourne, as the transmitter "changes group", unless you only want the BBC and ITV/C4 public-service channels.
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Roger in Eastbourne BN237:47 AM
Eastbourne
Thanks for the prompt reply. The high power digital signal starts in June 2012 so we can get digital in Eastbourne so does that mean analogue switch-off will be late 2012?
Thankyou for the aerial advice, i have, i think a large high gain group C/D (horizontal) aerial but Heathfield will change to a Group B i understand.
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Roger's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Roger in Eastbourne BN23: The digital switchover is both the turning off of analogue and the new high power services, this happens on the same day.
You will need a wideband aerial, not a group B, as you won't get the (potential) local TV service on C54 with a group B.
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Roger in Eastbourne BN238:31 AM
Eastbourne
Will fit a DY14WB wideband aerial, gets good reviews & seems a good buy.
Thanks for your expert help.
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Roger's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Roger in Eastbourne BN23: OK, let me know how you get on.
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