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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Heathfield (East Sussex, England) transmitter._______
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 withheldSunday, 15 December 2013
K
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
C
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
C
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
Sunday, 9 February 2014
Transmitter engineering
10:23 AM
10:23 AM
HEATHFIELD transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Weak Signal from 09:14 today. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
1:23 PM
1:23 PM
HEATHFIELD transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Weak Signal from 09:14 today to 09:19 today. [BBC]
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Monday, 10 February 2014
Transmitter engineering
4:24 AM
4:24 AM
HEATHFIELD transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Weak Signal from 09:14 yesterday to 09:19 yesterday. [BBC]
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Tuesday, 11 February 2014
Transmitter engineering
4:24 AM
4:24 AM
HEATHFIELD transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Weak Signal from 09:14 on 09 Feb to 09:19 on 09 Feb. [BBC]
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Thursday, 13 March 2014
M
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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