Freeview Light on the Horndean (Hampshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Horndean (Hampshire, England) transmitter which serves 800 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 Horndean (Hampshire, England) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Horndean (Hampshire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.
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 Horndean 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.
| Mux | H/V | Frequency | Height | Mode | Watts |
| PSB1 BBCA | V max | C43 (650.0MHz) | 138m | DTG- | 5W |
 1 BBC One (SD) South, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others | |||||
| PSB2 D3+4 | V max | C46 (674.0MHz) | 138m | DTG- | 5W |
 3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian (South Coast micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Meridian south coast), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C40 (626.0MHz) | 138m | DTG- | 5W |
 46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others | |||||
Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?
The Horndean (Hampshire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.
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 Horndean transmitter?
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 28km west (264°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.6%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 18km west-southwest (250°)
to ITV Meridian (South Coast) region - 39 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian plus Oxford
How will the Horndean (Hampshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 2 May 2018 | |||||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | E T | B E K T | |||||
| C40 | BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
| C43 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C46 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C52tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
| C56tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCA | |||||
| C62 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C64 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
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 7 Mar 12 and 21 Mar 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 12W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-3.8dB) 5W |
Local transmitter maps
Horndean Freeview Rowridge TV region BBC South Meridian (South Coast micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Rowridge transmitter area
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
+== NO FREEVIEW TONIGHT FROM MIDNIGHT UNTIL 9am - then RETUNE - see Switchover "completes" for Southampton, Portsmouth and Brighton | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
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Sunday, 19 August 2012
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Peter Conochie4:15 PM
Waterlooville
po8 0es my mother in law cannot get itv3 on her panasonic television, we have retuned to no avail. she used to get it at first about a year ago. she has had the aerial upgrade and the aerial is outside. all the other channels have very good signal condition and strength. can anyone help?
Pete
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jb385:27 PM
Peter Conochie: The problem is caused by when an auto tune was carried out the TV has tuned to the local (very!) Horndean transmitter and which is a PSB only station that does not transmit ITV3, whereas the Rowridge transmitter (@ 24 miles) does.
The TV will require to be "manually" tuned in to receive the programme required "if" she genuinely received it in a regular basis before, so go into the tuning menu - manual tune and enter Ch25 (ITV3 etc) and press scan, storing the results.
If this works you may as well do similar with the remaining two muxes, these being Ch22 / Ch28.
By the way the channels picked up and stored by doing this will simply add themselves to the programme guide, so that the BBC @ ITV will be from Horndean but ITV3 etc will be from the Rowridge transmitter.
This being said though without knowledge of the upgrade carried out, and whether the new aerial is facing towards Horndean or Rowridge? as there are only 10 degrees of a difference between the two stations, and if it does face towards Rowridge then the aerial should really be vertically mounted (as was also required for Horndean) the problem being that the aerial installers might have mounted the aerial horizontally and which wont provide such a good signal, as its Rowridges vertical signal that radiates the commercial programmes on high power.
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Peter Conochie: At your mother-in-law's location, the only full-service Freeview transmitter would appear to be Rowridge (Isle of Wight).
This page is for the Horndean transmitter which only carries PSB channels, of which ITV3 isn't one. It also did not carry Freeview prior to switchover in March this year, so it would seem logical to assume that Rowridge is the direction of the aerial, which has been alluded to.
Following the retune event in April, Rowridge is broadcasting all channels horizontally and vertically.
The PSBs are 200kW horizontally and vertically, whereas the COMs are 50kW horizontally and 200kW vertically. All channels (frequencies) are within those that the former analogue occupied, therefore, generally speaking, existing aerials should work.
Thus, generally speaking there isn't a need to replace aerials on Rowridge; in some cases they may need switching from horizontal to vertical polarisation to take advantage of the higher power COM signals.
If there was previously an aerial on Horndean (prior to the upgrade), then that would not be suitable for Rowridge, so a replacement would be necessary.
For a list of service by multiplex, see:
DTG :: DTT Services by Multiplex
This page explains which services are carried on the PSB (Public Service Broadcaster) multiplexes and which are carried on the COMs (Commercial). PSBs are BBC, ITV1, ITV2, C4, C5 and some others. COMs are ITV3, Pick TV, Yesterday, Film 4 and others.
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Peter Conochie: In addition to the point made by jb38 about the possibility of picking up (the PSBs) from Horndean transmitter, these may be avoided by unplugging the aerial lead at 30% of the tuning scan. All of Rowridge's are below this.
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jb386:17 PM
Dave Lindsay: Well the reason that I didnt think it necessary to mention it was because Horndean would only be picked up in the first place if the signal levels received from Rowrige were that low that they weren't at a storable level anyway, which of course is very possible by the fact of Horndean having been received on an auto-tune.
I also feel that the area in question is possibly known to be a bit iffy as far as reception from Rowridge is concerned, or the powers that be wouldn't have considered it necessary to have a relay station located at just about half a mile away on nearly the same line of direction as Rowridge.
But though what you have mentioned is quite correct, and likewise I am not criticising this in any way.
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Mark Fletcher7:44 PM
Barnsley
Peter Conochie.Waterlooville,PO8 0ES.
One other thing if i may add does your mother in law have either a red tipped group A aerial,a semi-wideband grey tipped group K aerial or a black tipped group W wideband aerial.The reason for my enquiry is if your mother in law has a horizontally polarised aerial facing Rowridge main transmitter then official a poor reception area from your mum in law's abode to Rowridge a group W wideband aerial will often perform poorly on an all group A mast like Rowridge for example in a poor/marginal locality.
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Mark's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 23 August 2012
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Pete Conochie7:55 PM
Waterlooville
Dave, jb38, and Mark. Thanks very much for your information, all the replies are very helpful and I'm sure I'll be able to sort it out for her,
Thanks again Gents!
Pete
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Wednesday, 13 March 2013
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k5:25 AM
Waterlooville
I am desperate to move away from contract TV etc. Can I receive free view living at
po7 8au from the horn dean transmitter?
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Les Nicol
8:34 AM
Waterlooville
8:34 AM
Waterlooville
k: Your location indicates that the Findon "Relay" transmitter serves your area. This is likely however to provide a more limited range of available channels. However you seem also to be on the fringes of transmissions from the "main" transmitter at Whitehack Hill. If your contract TV service is with SKY and to avoid/minimize cost you could consider either a change of contract to non-subscription bearing in mind that if you have a receiver with recording capabilities that this aspect will be disabled. The main reception capabilities will otherwise be unaffected with the exception of the subscription channels. -
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