Full Freeview on the Midhurst (West Sussex, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Midhurst (West Sussex, England) transmitter which serves 94,000 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 Midhurst (West Sussex, England) mast?
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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 Midhurst (West 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 Midhurst 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 Midhurst (West 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 Midhurst transmitter?

BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 51km west-southwest (256°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.

ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.6%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 41km west-southwest (248°)
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 Midhurst (West Sussex, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 16 Oct 2019 | |||
C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | C/D E T | K T | |||
C29 | SDN | ||||||||
C33 | ArqB | ||||||||
C34 | ArqA | ||||||||
C35 | D3+4 | ||||||||
C36 | BBCB | ||||||||
C48 | BBCA | ||||||||
C50tv_off | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | ||||||
C54tv_off | SDN | SDN | |||||||
C55tv_off | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | |||
C56tv_off | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||||||
C58tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||
C59tv_off | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ||||||
C61 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | |||||
C62 | SDN | ||||||||
C68 | 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 29 Feb 12 and 14 Mar 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-4 | 100kW | |
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 10kW | |
Mux C* | (-16dB) 2.5kW | |
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 2kW | |
Mux D* | (-20dB) 1000W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Midhurst transmitter area
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Thursday, 27 July 2023
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StevensOnln19:43 AM
Gordon: I would expect it to show either Sussex or Meridian.
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Chris.SE1:36 PM
Nottingham
Gordon:
If you clear all previous tuning, which should work by unplugging the aerial and doing an automatic tune - no channels found, then plug the aerial back in and manual tune those UHF channels it won't matter what it would/does show, you'll know you are tuned to Midhurst.
Sometimes what's displayed on automatic tunes depends on make/model.
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Chris.SE's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 8 August 2023
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Gordon Insley10:58 AM
Chris. SE
The compass co-ordinate you gave determined the direction the aerial should have been pointing and indicated the aerial was slightly off beam (by 15 degees west) realignment fixed the issue.
I have to add the the transmitter line-of-sight is 5-6km the otherside of a wood copse with 50-80ft high tees which I assume would further exacerbate the situation. However, all is now well and perfect reception on all multiplex's.
Thank you.
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Chris.SE4:34 PM
Gordon Insley:
Yes trees can be a problem and can sometimes only affect one or two multiplexes as you get different multipath reception resulting from the branches and foliage, however that close to a reasonably powerful transmitter means it's usually less of a potential problem. Glad it's all sorted for you.
Just got any disruption from tropospheric weather conditions to cope with if any is likely in the near future.
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Thursday, 10 August 2023
Transmitter engineering
5:20 PM
5:20 PM
MIDHURST transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 10 Aug 15:33 until 10 Aug 16:15. . [BBC]
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Friday, 25 August 2023
Transmitter engineering
1:48 PM
1:48 PM
Midhurst transmitter - Midhurst transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 21/08/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 28 August 2023
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
Midhurst transmitter - Midhurst transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 28/08/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Friday, 15 September 2023
Transmitter engineering
10:48 AM
10:48 AM
Midhurst transmitter - Midhurst transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 11/09/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 18 September 2023
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
Midhurst transmitter - Midhurst transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 18/09/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Friday, 22 September 2023
Transmitter engineering
10:47 AM
10:47 AM
MIDHURST transmitter - DAB: Reduced quality due to a fault from 17 Sep 23:45 until 17 Sep 23:52. Reduced quality due to a fault from 17 Sep 23:45 until 18 Sep 23:52. Off the air due to a fault from 17 Sep 23:40 until 17 Sep 23:42. Off the air due to a fault from 17 Sep 22:1 [BBC]
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