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 04/12/2023 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, 4 July 2018
Transmitter engineering
9:03 AM
9:03 AM
HEATHFIELD transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:00 today to 05:00 today, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:00 today to 05:00 today. [BBC]
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Thursday, 5 July 2018
Transmitter engineering
6:25 AM
6:25 AM
HEATHFIELD transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:01 today to 05:13 today, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:01 today to 05:13 today. [BBC]
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d blethyn10:36 AM
Transmitter engineering: heathfield transmitter OOA from 12.01 am . how long is this service stoppage likely to continue ?(no/ of days)
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StevensOnln112:45 PM
d blethyn: The post above yours shows that the transmitter came back on at 5:13am.
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StevensOnln1: d blethyn's question was 'how many days? This transmitter has been off air for at least 2 nights between the hours stated. How many more can we expect?
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StevensOnln14:07 PM
Vernon: Contributors to this website have no further information on how long engineering work will last, beyond what appears in the transmitter engineering posts. None of us work for any broadcaster or transmitter company etc.
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Friday, 6 July 2018
Transmitter engineering
12:26 AM
12:26 AM
HEATHFIELD transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:01 yesterday to 05:13 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:01 yesterday to 05:13 yesterday. [BBC]
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Sue Pepper9:47 AM
Tenterden
I'm appalled. I can't retune my telly to receive the extra red button channels for Wimbledon. WHY? I've had so many goes but nothing materialises. I was informed by Freeview that you do not do it. Disgusting. I'm fed up of stating to Sue Barker saying 'It's not on my red button!' I'm in Tenterden. TN30 6QH
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Sue's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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StevensOnln110:01 AM
Sue Pepper: The additional red button channels are on the COM8 multiplex which is not broadcast from Heathfield (there is no space for them to go anywhere else). This website is independent of all broadcasters and transmitter companies and has no control or influence other which channels are broadcast from which transmitters.
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