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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 04/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels Digital tick


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Which Freeview channels does the Heathfield transmitter broadcast?

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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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 H max
C41 (634.0MHz)298mDTG-20,000W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) South East, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 16 others

PSB2
D3+4
 H max
C44 (658.0MHz)298mDTG-20,000W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian (East micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Meridian south coast), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 H max
C47 (682.0MHz)298mDTG-20,000W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South East, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

COM4
SDN
 H max
C40 (626.0MHz)298mDTG-820,000W
Channel icons
20 U&Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 U&Dave ja vu, 58 ITV3 +1, 59 ITV4 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 91 WildEarth, 93 ITVBe +1, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 251 Al Jazeera English, 255 FRANCE 24 (in English), 265 Rok Sky +1, plus 29 others

COM5
ArqA
 H max
C43 (650.0MHz)300mDTG-820,000W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 U&Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 U&Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 &UYesterday +1, 76 That's TV 2 MCR, 233 Sky News, plus 13 others

COM6
ArqB
 H max
C46 (674.0MHz)300mDTG-820,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 U&W, 27 U&Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 63 GREAT! romance mix, 73 HobbyMaker, 75 That's 90s, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

DTG-8 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?

regional news image
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 17km north (6°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
regional news image
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?

1984-971997-981998-20122012-132013-182013-1719 Jul 2018
C/D EC/D EC/D EW TW TW TK T
C29_local_local_local_local
C40SDN
C41ArqBArqBArqBBBCA
C42SDNSDNSDN
C43ArqA
C44ArqAArqAArqAD3+4
C46ArqB
C47BBCBBBCBBBCBBBCB
C49tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesD3+4D3+4D3+4
C52tv_offBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCABBCA
C64ITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves
C67C4wavesC4wavesC4waves

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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

Aug 1958-Jan 1992Southern Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992Television South (TVS)
Jan 1993-Feb 2004Meridian
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Heathfield was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

Radiation patterns withheld

Comments
Friday, 13 December 2013
J
jb38
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

11:30 PM

michael derrick b: Re: previous reply, just for a test I used Newhaven Post Office in the High Street as a location, the results of indicating that the signal from Heathfield (@ 14.8 miles) suffers from being seriously obstructed starting from approximately 4 miles prior to reaching Newhaven, although I fully appreciate that you might well be located nowhere near to the centre of Newhaven.

With regards to your signal failing towards the evenings, this indeed could well be caused by the atmospheric conditions prevailing at this present time, but though it could also be caused by the signal you are receiving be achieved purely via diffraction, (signal bending) and signals receiving in this way are vulnerable to conditions changing between day and night times irrespective of whether or not the actual inversion is occurring.

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Saturday, 14 December 2013
M
michael derrick
12:00 AM
Newhaven

Bn9 9se, part way up the hill so not as low as the town.

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jb38
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9:51 AM

michael derrick: Thanks for the location update, however this has unfortunately not really made any difference to the situation as far as reception from Heathfield is concerned as the obstruction previously referred to remains virtually unchanged.

That said, although its rather obvious that reception is still possible under conditions such as these as proven by yourself, its mostly of a nature that cannot be relied upon for consistency, plus the other factor of the summer / winter + night time / daytime effect frequently comes into the equation whereby the signal is liable to deteriorate due to changes in the surface of the terrain such as vegetation / reflective properties as well as reception occasionally being affected by cloud conditions, and although with the summer and winter effect its possible in some cases (but not all) to partially correct the situation by turning the aerial by a few degrees to either the left or right to regain peak signal strength, this type of action is not really a practicable proposition for most, plus of course it has no effect whatsoever on problems not being caused by the terrain.

This top link being the reception prediction for your area, and with the one under the terrain indications referred to.

Coverage Checker - Detailed View



Terrain between ( m a.g.l.) and (antenna m a.g.l.) - Optimising UK DTT Freeview and Radio aerial location


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jb38
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2:23 PM

michael derrick : In addition to that said, I
also carried out some checks on the aerials installed in your area and with this being done in a wide sweep, and although the imagery I was viewing them on may not necessarily be bang up to date practically all of the aerials seen in the area are vertically polarised and facing towards the Newhaven transmitter, the couple of horizontally mounted exceptions seen facing towards the Heathfield transmitter albeit that they were mounted on the same mast as their vertical counterparts, which of course could quite possibly indicate that the viewer does not necessarily enjoy good reception from Heathfield.

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Sunday, 15 December 2013
K
K Sutton
2:43 PM

I use a feeview light transmitter from Heathfield Sedlescombe had the same problems as the rest break up and loss of picture went to the relay mast and took down the phone number of Arqiva.com 01926416236 and explained the problem to the person on the phone and they said it would be passed on.
It appears to be working fine at the moment we only get 26 tv 11 radio stations

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Dave Lindsay
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2:50 PM

K Sutton: As it is a relay transmitter it gets it signal by receiving it off the air from Heathfield, just as any viewer using Heathfield does.

Quite a view Heathfield users and those of other transmitters in other areas reported issues over the last few days. Atmospherics have caused distant transmissions to carry further than normal, and this has affected a huge swathe of the country.

I therefore suggest that the issue was that the signal being received by the relay was being interfered with which is why all users of it experienced loss of picture.

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Saturday, 18 January 2014
C
cj
9:00 PM
Ashford

Has anyone else been suffering with poor reception over the last week on COM 4/5/6.

It doesn't appear to be Inversion Effect, as the air pressure isn't high.

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Sunday, 19 January 2014
Briantist
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5:35 PM

cj: That old one..


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Thursday, 13 March 2014
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Michael
11:22 AM

We've lost both COM5 and PSB3 since about 8PM last night - Anyone else having any issues? Its definately signal based and not a fault at our end - Living in Alfriston

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