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 withheldTuesday, 19 June 2012
Chris
7:29 PM
Hailsham
7:29 PM
Hailsham
I and others I know use the Heathfield transmitter, and we were confused why we could pick up nearly every channel (even though we only have a cheap in house Ariel) except ITV3 (which we like), this page explains why, and provides good news that we should have it by the end of the month! So thank you all for the information!
It is a little odd that ITV3 is stuck with ITV2+1 and a bunch of adult channels.
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Chris's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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KMJ,Derby8:30 PM
Chris: ITV3 used to be on PSB2, but changed places with Channel Five so that C5 would be transmitted from all masts. I think that after the SDN mux was added, as promised, to the Ferryside relay it was realised just how much it would cost to repeat the exercise at all the relays in order to give the required coverage of C5. ITV4 was also displaced from PSB2 to make room for ITV1+1.
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Dupree9:13 PM
I still can't get freeview hd reception. Is this the fault of my aerial?
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jb3811:38 PM
Dupree: Its quite impossible for anyone to be able to offer assistance when you havent mentioned your location (post code or one from nearby) nor whatever you are trying to receive Freeview HD on, as either its not being transmitted as yet (dependant on location) or its your receiving device that is not capable of picking it up by only having a DVB-T tuner fitted and not a DVB-T2 type which is necessary for HD reception.
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Wednesday, 20 June 2012
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paul6:39 PM
Eastbourne
hi all and thank you for helping.
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paul's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Mark Fletcher7:15 PM
Crowborough
JB38.Ref.Tuesday 19 June 2012,11.38pm.
Perhaps i may shed a wee bit of light in Dupree's situation.His first post was on Sunday 17 June 2012,7.04pm,his first language is not English,i presume he is Italian the red,white and green tricolour gives it away.He stated his postcode as TN6 1DL which is Crowborough in East Sussex i assume,and resides presumably in the Heathfield transmitter area,but could possibly also receive main transmissions from Crystal Palace,Bluebell Hill and Dover as well as relay transmissions from Reigate,Whitehawk Hill and Tunbridge Wells.
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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 Fletcher7:20 PM
Barnsley
Correction to my location in my previous post.I'm presently located in Barnsley not Crowborough as stated.Apologies for another of my wee errors in my locations as such,this basically to assist others.
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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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jb387:52 PM
Mark Fletcher: Yes, thanks for that info, and with regards to your location I do realise that was an error, and possibly due to Dupree's p/code still being in the site settings box, as in the past I have been at a few locations myself by having accidentally done exactly the same thing.
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jb388:52 PM
Dupree: Now I am aware of your location (thanks to Mark F) another thing to consider is that you are receiving an excessively high level of signal from Heathfield by being located at only 6 miles away from the transmitter, and when you say that your normal SD reception is OK what does it indicate strength / quality wise? as should it be on, or near, to maximum then this could be slightly too strong for HD reception, as an overly powerful signal will always affect HD before SD and which in many instances can appear as being reasonably OK.
Another aspect about being in this type of situation being, that the signal strength / quality indications seen (especially on HD) cannot be taken as accurate, as partial instability in the system results in false readings being given, these always usually being low.
Finally, although you haven't actually mentioned it as such but if you have any form of booster fitted then this must be by-passed, that said though what method is used to feed the signal to other parts of the house? as if its done via a powered booster / splitter then for a test by-pass this device by connecting the aerial directly onto the HD boxes feed, giving an update on results.
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Thursday, 21 June 2012
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Dupree1:34 PM
Thank you for bearing with me. The main wire is split into 3 lines by QQ70M 4-way splitter. My own connection (bedroom) does not have any booster attach to it except the line that goes into the living room that does have one. There's no booster whatsoever on the main wire as well.
With regards to signals and quality, when I check the freeview hd box for signal diagnostics I found the signal range for channels around 28-30% and quality ranging from 53-100% with the exception ofcourse of itv3 (having low power at the moment until 27th). These diagnostics are from my own cable connection going to my bedroom.
Thank you for all your help.
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