Full Freeview on the Midhurst (West Sussex, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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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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Friday, 2 March 2012
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Steve8:24 PM
Godalming
After re tuning the digital receivers this week to get BBC2 due to the start of the switchover from the Midhurst transitter, the signals on groups C and D have gone from 40 - 50% on quality right up to 100%. So once again I can watch all of the channels that I lost a couple of months ago.
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Monday, 5 March 2012
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Darren Ellis8:09 AM
Liphook
Transmitter engineering: Since retuning after the switch over we've lost the BBC Mux (channel55) from our Humax 8000T PVR. It just won't see it no matter what we do (deleting all channels, scanning with no aerial, manual scanning etc) even though it shows 80% strength on the screen. The TV plugged into it has no problem seeing all channels as do all the other TV's in the house. Any suggestions as we're loosing patience!
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Tuesday, 6 March 2012
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mrdtv12:29 PM
London
Darren Ellis:
Humax's have an option: FIRST TIME INSTALLATION. You have to run this. I am getting BBCA crystal clear in NW London from Hannington.
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Mike Dimmick3:30 PM
Darren Ellis: Normally I'd say that it didn't support 8K mode, but to the best of my knowledge, all PVR-8000T are compatible with it. My parents have one, and have had no problems since Hannington switched over.
Humax's website doesn't list any software downloads for this box at present; it's possible that there were some at some time. You'd have to email them to find out if your box is up-to-date and how you can get it updated.
It is possible that you now have too much signal, given that BBC A is 10 dB (10x) louder than before.
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Wednesday, 7 March 2012
Hi,
I seem to be short of certain freeview channels for my region here in Burgess Hill (coming off the Midhurst trans).
According to the list above I get (and have always got) everything other than MUX D, these channels have never appeared on my Sony TV (TV is a year old and on the latest firmware).
Do I assume that as of 14th March than all the MUX's will be up to full working power and this other batch of channels will appear then?
Thanks in advance.
Neil
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In addition I've just noticed a chunk of channels of MUX C that I don't receive either, is this is a similar problem to the MUX D channels?
The aerial installation was only about two years ago and was specifically put in for the digital upgrade.
Cheers again
Neil
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Phil9:40 PM
Liss
Hi Brian
I have a Digivision Freeview box that periodically turns on the teletext on BBC channels; I get a 'please wait' message followed by the red button or index page without any input from me. It also occasionally changes channels without input eg it might keep defaulting to BBC1.
Any thoughts on cause?? I am on Midhurst transmitter - it was happening before and now after the recent part switchover on 29/02
Thanks Phil
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Neil Soane: Mux D from Midhurst has the lowest transmission power of the lot at 1kW. Others are at 2kW and Mux D is 2.5kW. It's not quite as simple as that because there are different modes and some are more rugged than others.
I would try manually tuning if you can. If not, then (as sure as we can ever be) the increase in power next week should solve your problems.
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Thursday, 8 March 2012
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John Davis3:02 PM
Neil Saone: Heathfield analogue ITV1 is on the same frequency as Midhurst MuxC right now, so where you are, you're not likely to get MuxC. I think you'll be alright from 14th March after the 2nd part of Midhurst DSO.
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Barry9:52 PM
Steyning
Before 29 February I had a clear picture on BBC channels, but others such as ITV were pixelated most of the time. Since 29 Feb it is now the other way round. Thinking the problem may be to much boost I removed the 8 way booster and plugged the aerial directly into the TV. No signal. I put a new 4 way booster in place of the 8 way and still no signal. Put the 8 way booster back on and Im back to the starting point. This problem is a 37 inch TV. But on a 23 inch TV no problems at all, reception on all the channels is good. Any ideas.
Postcode BN44 3YW
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