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 22/04/2024 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 withheldWednesday, 20 June 2012
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paul6:39 PM
Eastbourne
hi all and thank you for helping.
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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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Mark Fletcher7:15 PM
Crowborough
JB38.Ref.Tuesday 19 June 2012,11.38pm.
Perhaps i may shed a wee bit of light in Dupree's situation.His first post was on Sunday 17 June 2012,7.04pm,his first language is not English,i presume he is Italian the red,white and green tricolour gives it away.He stated his postcode as TN6 1DL which is Crowborough in East Sussex i assume,and resides presumably in the Heathfield transmitter area,but could possibly also receive main transmissions from Crystal Palace,Bluebell Hill and Dover as well as relay transmissions from Reigate,Whitehawk Hill and Tunbridge Wells.
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Mark Fletcher7:20 PM
Barnsley
Correction to my location in my previous post.I'm presently located in Barnsley not Crowborough as stated.Apologies for another of my wee errors in my locations as such,this basically to assist others.
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Mark's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jb387:52 PM
Mark Fletcher: Yes, thanks for that info, and with regards to your location I do realise that was an error, and possibly due to Dupree's p/code still being in the site settings box, as in the past I have been at a few locations myself by having accidentally done exactly the same thing.
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jb388:52 PM
Dupree: Now I am aware of your location (thanks to Mark F) another thing to consider is that you are receiving an excessively high level of signal from Heathfield by being located at only 6 miles away from the transmitter, and when you say that your normal SD reception is OK what does it indicate strength / quality wise? as should it be on, or near, to maximum then this could be slightly too strong for HD reception, as an overly powerful signal will always affect HD before SD and which in many instances can appear as being reasonably OK.
Another aspect about being in this type of situation being, that the signal strength / quality indications seen (especially on HD) cannot be taken as accurate, as partial instability in the system results in false readings being given, these always usually being low.
Finally, although you haven't actually mentioned it as such but if you have any form of booster fitted then this must be by-passed, that said though what method is used to feed the signal to other parts of the house? as if its done via a powered booster / splitter then for a test by-pass this device by connecting the aerial directly onto the HD boxes feed, giving an update on results.
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Thursday, 21 June 2012
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Dupree1:34 PM
Thank you for bearing with me. The main wire is split into 3 lines by QQ70M 4-way splitter. My own connection (bedroom) does not have any booster attach to it except the line that goes into the living room that does have one. There's no booster whatsoever on the main wire as well.
With regards to signals and quality, when I check the freeview hd box for signal diagnostics I found the signal range for channels around 28-30% and quality ranging from 53-100% with the exception ofcourse of itv3 (having low power at the moment until 27th). These diagnostics are from my own cable connection going to my bedroom.
Thank you for all your help.
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Dupree1:36 PM
I have yet to test using the main cable for any HD reception. WIll give updates as soon as I can. Thanks.
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Friday, 22 June 2012
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Dupree10:42 PM
Here are the results. Surprisingly using our main cable I got all the HD channels all in good form. Hurray! The signals for HD channels are around 28-29% (no booster at all) and quality varies from
0-36%.
But when I put back the telly in my bedroom with the newly retuned HD channels (HD box), produced horrible results. Quality flicker back and forth from 0-5%. Every 10 sec I got blank screen on all HD channels. Is this the result of the splitter? Do I have to replace it? I am not using any booster. Thank you for your patient.
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Saturday, 23 June 2012
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jb3812:15 AM
Dupree: Thanks for the update. I will say though that the signal strength / quality indications given cannot by any means be classed as good considering the relatively short distance that the transmitter is away from you, however I did notice that others also seem to be suffering from reception problems in your particular area, and in your own case this not being helped any with that type of passive splitter you use, as it does have quite a high insertion loss to the extent that its like fitting a 6db attenuator in line with your aerial, so should this be easy to access try by-passing it so that the aerial is feeding directly into your TV, checking what the results are and giving an update.
Regarding the aerial referred to, where is it installed? and are you positive that is facing at the correct angle for the transmitter? that of 151 degrees.
Another thing I would like you to check is that the HD mux channel indicated on the signal strength check screen is actually Ch47, just in case by any chance that a signal has been picked up from another transmitter and not Heathfield.
Finally, as no two brands of equipment have the same sensitivity, I would like you to try the Freeview HD box in both locations using the same channel for the test, as this would also reveal if any fault existed in the connections to both locations, as if not then the results should be the same in both locations. (Ch47 ju)
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jb387:45 AM
Dupree: By the way, my reason for requesting that you try by-passing the passive splitter is two fold, insomuch that if your reception gets worse strength / quality wise then that's a positive indication that you are receiving an excessively high level of signal, but on the other hand if reception improves then that indicates the reverse, and this is something that hasn't exactly been determined as yet.
If though reception does improve with the splitter by-passed, then for another test try connecting a short piece of wire of about 600mm (or longer) into the TV's or boxes inner core of the aerial socket and check if any form of reception is possible by doing that, try the test whilst on the BBC.
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