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.
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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 |
Local transmitter maps
HEATHFIELD Freeview HEATHFIELD DAB Heathfield TV region BBC South East Meridian (East micro region)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, 1 June 2012
HEATHFIELD transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 00:21 on 30 May to 00:28 on 30 May [BBC]
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HEATHFIELD transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 00:21 on 30 May to 00:28 on 30 May [BBC]
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Tuesday, 5 June 2012
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Terry Collett2:19 PM
Lewes
We are suffering from major picture breakup on BBC1 as I write. Our postcode is BN7 3BH. Yesterday, Monday the 4th of June, our BBC1 reception was perfect or normal. However, on Sunday, when we neeeded a good picture, the reception on BBC1 Digital was so appalling that we were forced to watch the river pageant on BBC1 Analogue. It was not until we met neighbours on Monday that we realised that it was not just us that had a problem but that it was widespread. So thankyou Heathfield for spoiling this once in a lifetime weekend by transmitting a weak signal.
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Terry's: mapT's Freeview map terrainT's terrain plot wavesT's frequency data T's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 7 June 2012
HEATHFIELD transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV (Four, Cbeebies, Parliament, 3... Off Air from 16:51 today to 16:53 today [BBC]
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HEATHFIELD transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV (Four, Cbeebies, Parliament, 3... Off Air from 16:51 today to 16:53 today [BBC]
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HEATHFIELD transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV (Four, Cbeebies, Parliament, 3... Off Air from 16:51 today to 16:53 today - No problems - [BBC]
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HEATHFIELD transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV (Four, Cbeebies, Parliament, 3... Off Air from 16:51 today to 16:53 today - No problems - [BBC]
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Friday, 8 June 2012
HEATHFIELD transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV (Four, Cbeebies, Parliament, 3... Off Air from 16:51 yesterday to 16:53 yesterday - No problems - [BBC]
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HEATHFIELD transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV (Four, Cbeebies, Parliament, 3... Off Air from 16:51 yesterday to 16:53 yesterday - No problems - [BBC]
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P.Slater8:58 AM
Terry Collett (Lewes)
Your postcode comes up as Plumpton Green, which is about the same distance from Heathfield as Lewes Town. The low lying parts of Lewes cannot receive the full coverage from Heathfield, but if you have been receiving Freeview up to the changeover, apart from a full retune or factory reset of your TV or external box, you should not see any difference. I had and still have an excellent signal using a small log periodic aerial mounted under the eaves. If you still have problems after a reset, you need to check all the items up to the box.
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