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 withheldFriday, 13 December 2013
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jb3811:30 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
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michael derrick12:00 AM
Newhaven
Bn9 9se, part way up the hill so not as low as the town.
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jb389:51 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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jb382:23 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
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K Sutton2:43 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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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
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cj9:00 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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cj's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 19 January 2014
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cj4:59 PM
Ashford
resolved... just rebooted the box
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cj's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 13 March 2014
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Michael11:22 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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