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 withheldMonday, 6 February 2012
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jb385:56 PM
B. Carr: Just to answer your the main concern which I had mistakenly omitted to include in my answer, no! they havent been switched off and wont be until changeover, however they can suffer periods of breaks in transmission due to the on-going engineering work in preparation for switchover, this most likely being the cause of your problem.
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Monday, 9 April 2012
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Dennis 11:45 PM
Doing a full rescan/first installation on my PVR (Topfield 5800) will delete all my recordings (this aspect not mentioned on any site I've looked at!). Please confirm if just a channel rescan will not be sufficient.
Thanks.
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Tuesday, 10 April 2012
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jb387:20 AM
Dennis: Carrying out the normal "Factory Reset" to wipe out everything stored in the memory will NOT delete your previously made recordings but WILL if "Format Hard Disc" is selected.
Have a look on the link, the section on the info you require about 3/4 of the way down the page.
TF5800 online manual
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Thursday, 12 April 2012
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Dennis 11:50 AM
jb38
Thank you for that info! I am very pleased that I was mistaken about the recordings delete.
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Sunday, 29 April 2012
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Susan Ellis9:30 PM
Wadhurst
TN5 6DL
I have to re-tune/scan my TV on a daily basis as always lose ITV1,Ch4,Ch5 as well as various other channels. It takes about 15 minutes to do this and means that I can no longer pre-programme my DVD recorder as this wipes out anything already pre-set. My TV is analogue and I run it via a combined DVD/digibox recorder. After I re-scan it all works until I turn it off and then have to repeat the process again the following day. Is this related to technical work being carried out or is it always going to be like this now?
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Susan's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jb3811:42 PM
Susan Ellis: If you lose channels after switching off a DVD recorder or any Freeview device, then this in most cases is caused by the device having picked up more channels than its memory is capable of storing, hence they are lost on switch off.
You will have to carry out a complete factory reset (or default setting) on the recorder to delete anything stored in the memory and follow this by another auto-scan, sometimes depending on the make of the device, if you take the aerial out and start an auto-tune but stop it as soon as it starts that can delete everything stored, so you could try that first if you wish, then of course reconnect the aerial and carry out a normal auto-tune.
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Saturday, 26 May 2012
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Philip Smith4:29 PM
Uckfield
My mother-in-law id 98 and has just moved to Manor Gardens Nursing Home - TN22 4BY her TV can only recieve 7 TV services - this excludes all ITV channels. The signal strength is only 15%. I believe the home has a SMATV entenna, we are advised that other residents can receive ITV without a problem. The TV is a 5 years old Samsung
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Philip's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 28 May 2012
Philip Smith: You need to contact the provider or manager of the SMATV system and ask to make your access point work correctly.
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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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Friday, 8 June 2012
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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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