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, 12 June 2012
Tn325pb Robertsbridge, currently tuned into heathfield. We retuned on the first and second retune dates. ITV channels are all very weak and give poor image and sound. All bbc channels are fine. What are we doing wrong??
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Justin: I expect that it's just the lower power of the ITV signal. Wait until tomorrow and they will all be on full power!
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Wednesday, 13 June 2012
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daniel badman7:49 AM
Egremont
sdn dose not do to full power and to 42 till the 27th of june
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daniel's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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John11:16 AM
Retuned this morning Channel 49 (ITV etc) Everything was fine until about an hour ago and now the channels on this have dropped out. When I do a diagnostic, the signal strengh and quality is not consistent and is saying it is too strong at times - what is causing this as it was fine first thing this morning
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John: Without knowing your location it's not possible to know the likelihood that this might be the case, but if you are close to the transmitter, your receiver could be suffering from too high a signal level which is overwhelming it at times. See here for an explanation and solution:
Freeview signals: too much of a good thing is bad for you | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
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micky1:39 PM
I have totaly lost quest and revelent channels.. says channel 42 is on max transmission but my humax box says there is no transmision on this channel???? Alwayshad quest before change over grr!!!! And i only live in halland
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Tony2:09 PM
Wirral
Trying to retune system in hotel at Eastbourne.
Ch42+ SDN COM4.... temporarily on Ch48 as per ukfree.tv?
I have no signal on 42 or 48
Anyone know why?
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Tony's: ...
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Dave2:10 PM
Eastbourne
I've set up my freeview relatively successfully but could you tell me the transmitting frequencies for ITV3, CITV, 5*, 5USA and, if available, Channel 5+1 and Film 4+1?
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Dave's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Tony2:13 PM
ITV3, CITV etc.... should be 642.2 (Ch42+) but is not working yet? Website says it should be temp on Ch48 but not there either!!
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micky, Tony, Dave: SDN (ITV3 etc) remains on its pre-switchover channel 48 on low power until 27th June. This is because C42 is currently being used by transmitters in Kent until they switch-over on that date.
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