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 27/11/2023 Pixelation or flickering 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 withheldFriday, 22 February 2019
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janet Little7:33 PM
Our freeview set is forever breaking up channels. This happens very regularly. We have had an engineer twice who says we have a very good signal and no aerial problems. According to local websites this is happening in many parts of Crowborough. At times we can only get one or two channels. It is not just a 'one off' but happens many times a week. Please tell me how to deal with this = my husband is ill and likes to watch tv and we don't just want to watch one or two channels.
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Sunday, 24 February 2019
MikeP
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
Janet Little.
It is due to the current high pressure so there is nothing anyone can do about it apart from wait until the weather pattern changes. Do not retune.
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Alan Reed6:35 PM
Since the last digital retune in July this service has become pathetic. Frequent signal break up all over town, including Old Town, Hampden Park, Wannock and even those tuned to the South Cliff Tower repeater. Freeview are unable to provide a usuable signal over a distance of just ten miles. We pay for this?
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MikeP
10:12 PM
10:12 PM
Alan Reed:
You need to read the post above yours. There is no problem with the transmitter and what you are reporting is nothing new. It is the well known conseqyence of using frequencies in the UHF band that are susceptible to what happens with high atmospheric pressure in the area - and nobody can do anything about that. It's also nothing to do with so-called 'global warming. It has happened to UG+HF signals ever since we started transmitting BBC2 in 625 line systems in the 1960s and it almost certainly existed long before that but we never noticed as we didn't publicly use UHF transmissions before then.
Do not retune and be patient.
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Thursday, 7 March 2019
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RoyBaker8:30 AM
Eastbourne
My Postcode is BN20 7ED. In the last 2 weeks We have noticed pictures breaking up on a few channels. recently 3 very tall trees that were opposite my home, have been removed. behind those trees is a tall empty property, could this be the reason for picture break up?
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RoyBaker's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
MikeP
11:27 PM
11:27 PM
Roy Baker:
Looking at the Digital UK Coverage Checker, at Coverage Checker - Detailed View shows rthat you are just 1 km from the Eastbourne transmitter. It is therefore more likely that you may have too much signal which causes the picture break up (pixilation) that you report. Please check the signal strengths of all the 6 multiplexes available. Ideally the strengths should be between 60% and 85% or so. If they are much stronger than you will need to reduce the strengths by fitting an attenuator.
The change could well have been caused by the removal of the trees which may well have been absorbing some of the signal before.
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Wednesday, 12 June 2019
Transmitter engineering
2:09 PM
2:09 PM
HEATHFIELD transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 13:08 today. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
5:09 PM
5:09 PM
HEATHFIELD transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 13:08 today to 13:21 today. [BBC]
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Thursday, 13 June 2019
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
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HEATHFIELD transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 13:08 yesterday to 13:21 yesterday. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
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11:09 AM
HEATHFIELD transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Weak Signal from 10:03 today to 10:15 today. DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 13:08 yesterday to 13:21 yesterday. [BBC]
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