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 25/11/2024 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 withheldSunday, 8 July 2012
John Slater: There is a diagram on this page which says that all aerial/dish inputs are only fed to the "Living Room" output and that they are not connected to the "Room" outputs.
I gather that you have two coax cables between your loft and living room.
If you are using a Sky box, then there is no need for a splitter as they have two RF outputs.
If you are not using a Sky box, then, where your aerial comes directly into your living room, you can use a splitter to feed the living room TV and the LoftBox. At the LoftBox, the other end of that cable should be connected to the "TV Ant" input.
Then link the "Living Room" output to the "UHF2" input. This is so as to provide DAB and FM (as well as TV) from all "Room" outputs.
If you fed the cable from the living room into "UHF2", then you would only have TV signals at your "Room" outputs (which is what the first paragraph of my response says).
If you require FM and DAB in your living room, then you will have to utilise the other cable between your loft and living room, connecting it to a "Room" output.
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John Slater: Sorry, didn't provide the links.
There is a diagram part way down this page:
http://www.letsautomate.c….cfm
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Tuesday, 10 July 2012
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Paul3:19 PM
Lewes
Paul: Turned down booster to lowest gain, retuned all TVs and HD recorder and all perfect now.
Thanks for your help.
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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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Alan8:32 PM
Eastbourne
When will we get rid of have to change channel when watching BBC news in HD to see our local news channel?
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Alan's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Mark Fletcher8:42 PM
Halifax
Alan,Eastbourne.The only logical answer to your question is not for the foreseeable future ?!
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Wednesday, 11 July 2012
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K J Sutton3:46 PM
Battle
I receive my freeview from the repeater Ariel at sedlescombe TN33 0PZ and we seem to be a few tv stations short on the freeview channels will there be any increase in channels for this village in the near future.
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Saturday, 14 July 2012
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Alan9:50 AM
Why have we almost lost all freeview channels this morning, they keep breaking up they are all breaking up, sat still working ok it's only from new aerial that problem excists. Heathfield is my transmiter, I'm in Eastbourne.
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Monday, 6 August 2012
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Alan Newton1:55 PM
Heathfield
We are on freeview we get a lot of speech breaks and loss of the picture at times.
The aerial is on the roof. If we could go back to the old system I would. It was quicker to change programs and less hassle. We also have other friends with the same problems.
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Alan's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Saturday, 11 August 2012
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Gill Hall5:48 PM
Burgess Hill
i live in a flat our aerial serves 15 flats i am the furtherest from the aerial.we do not get film4 or yesterday or magic radio -would we get these channels if the aerial picked up signal from midhurst?if so, how do we get it changed?
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