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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Midhurst (West Sussex, England) transmitter._______
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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Monday, 17 January 2011
John Nice: I'm very pleased to hear that you have all the multiplexes.
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James5:50 PM
Hi I am from Broadbridge Heath in Horsham and our digital ITV1 disapears on a regular basis then comes back. Any ideas James
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Monday, 31 January 2011
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Ben10:34 PM
Horsham
I live in Partridge Green, West Sussex and my Freeview reception is fine except that about 8 months ago I retuned my STB and lost C64. I've never managed to regain it since, even manually tuning doesn't work. This is odd because it worked fine for ages and the picture was good. The predictor on this site also says I should be getting maximum 'effective power level' which is much higher than all the other channels that I am still receiving fine.
I have already switched to Freesat but I miss Dave. Is there anything I can try? I've already got a new aerial with mast head amp.
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Ben's: mapB's Freeview map terrainB's terrain plot wavesB's frequency data B's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 3 February 2011
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Ant11:18 AM
I live in Reigate. Like much of Reigate, we get our transmissions from Midhurst, because the Reigate and Crystal Palace transmissions are blocked by the confused local topography. Given our height, the reception is generally fine, at least on the main channels, although annoyingly both BBC and ITV regional bulletins completely ignore anything happening north of Crawley. However, in the last 48 hrs the TV has started to pixelate on all channels. This hasn't happened before. Any ideas?
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Wednesday, 23 February 2011
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Brian11:55 PM
Horsham
I live in Southwater. In early December I could get all the BBC and moct of the ITV channals at good or better signal. Since the start of this year I can only receive BBC 1,2,70 and 71. Why is this.
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Brian's: mapB's Freeview map terrainB's terrain plot wavesB's frequency data B's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Saturday, 26 February 2011
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Ann11:44 AM
Has anyone else lost Mux A, channel 62, virtually overnight? Last year, we lost it around April/May and got it back around October, so presumed this was to do with leaves on trees. However, it disappeared a few days ago and, therefore, cannot be for the same reason. Any ideas? We are in a difficult area, especially for Mux 1 (most BBC channels) but last week Mux A had a signal quality of 100% and then suddenly, nothing. The strength appears to be fluctuating between low and high.
Also, can anyone explain to me what, exactly, is being measured electronically for signal quality?
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Ann: I would see Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
To answer your question, nothing is being measured electronically for the signal quality, it is a digital measurement of the bit-error rate, the BER. This is a measure of the number of bits that have to be recovered from the FEC (foreard error correction).
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Monday, 28 February 2011
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Ann11:25 AM
Thank you for the info on signal quality measurement, Brian.
Regarding the single frequency interference, we already have a wideband aerial and the only equipment we have from the list is a PVR but since we haven't changed anything on that, I can't see how it would be that.
The signal quality on Mux A is coming and going now. Ok for part of the day and nothing for the rest. I suppose it is that old problem we have here, something to do with weather/atmospherics. I am keeping my fingers crossed for an improvement after switchover.
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