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 withheldTuesday, 19 September 2017
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StevensOnln15:13 PM
A.MCCARTNEY: KMTV is not broadcast from Heathfield. It is a local TV service broadcasting to the Maidstone and Tunbridge areas from the Bluebell Hill and Tunbridge Wells transmitters.
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Wednesday, 1 November 2017
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T.MAYS8:56 AM
I am having trouble getting a signal for all channels.
i live at east grinstead sx
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T.MAYS8:58 AM
East Grinstead
I live at rh19 1hl
the aerial is on the roof. New one fitted sept. 2016
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Mrs Head10:08 AM
Is there reduced power from this transmitter today as a lot of our customers are calling saying they lost signal last night and are still experiencing problems.
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Mr A Clark10:49 AM
Eastbourne
Mrs Head: Been having problems down here BN22 9BX most of this morning, BBC1 and 2 HD and standard channels 1 and 2, signal so low it keeps breaking up.
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StevensOnln112:45 PM
T.MAYS, Mrs Head & Mr A Clark: The problems you are seeing are very likely cause by the high atmospheric pressure affecting various parts of the country, causing lift conditions which allow signals from distant transmitters which cannot normally be received to interfere with the signals from the transmitter you normally use. Do not attempt to retune as this will delete all of your channels which are already correctly tuned. As this is an entirely natural phenomenon, all you can do is wait for the atmospheric conditions to return to normal.
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peter robinson2:50 PM
tn256hb aerial on roof me and neighours intermittant coverage
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MikeP
6:33 PM
6:33 PM
Peter Robinson:
Please see the response from StevensOnln1 above your posting.
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Wednesday, 22 November 2017
For about the past 3 or 4 weeks weeks I have stopped being able to receive freeview HD channels. At times ive retuned and lost all channels, and then retuned and recieved a few channels. Subsequent retunes have resulted in getting more channels, but never Freeview HD (eg 1- 5).
Ive done a factory reset of the BT Youview box several times, but still not got HD channels back. They don't even get identifed. BT are sending me a new Youview box but suspect its not that.
Tuning with the aerial directly in to the TV identified lots of channels but all with quality 1 - this leads me to believe either my Aerial is faulty, or there is a transmission problem and the Youview box is amplifying the weak signal - is that plausible?
Albourne - BN6 9DN
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MikeB4:29 PM
Finbar:
a) Check which transmitter your on - if you've tuned into the wrong transmitter, then your signal will be rubbish. Heathfield or Midhurst, although Crystal Palace wouldn't be impossible.
b) check each part of the chain from your aerial to the TV/PVR. Humax's actually have very sensitive tuners, so if your getting a rubbish signal and you are tuned into Heathfield, its certainly something to do with your system. people often think that somehow 'they' turn down the signal strength or stop broadcasting certain channels, but of course 'they' dont. The only time there is a weak signal or transmission stops, they will usually tell you, and it will be normally hours, at most. If its weeks, its you.
Losing HD signals is a sign that its your system and that its a weak signal - they often go first.
You could start with the aerial lead from the wall - easy to replace and often the source of the problem, in that its just come lose.
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