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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Wednesday, 18 December 2019
Transmitter engineering
2:11 AM
2:11 AM
MIDHURST transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 19:35 yesterday to 19:38 yesterday. [BBC]
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Thursday, 26 December 2019
Transmitter engineering
2:09 AM
2:09 AM
MIDHURST transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 19:35 yesterday to 19:38 yesterday. [BBC]
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Wednesday, 1 January 2020
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Mrs Diana Amory6:20 PM
I was very upset on Sunday to tuesday night that there was no TV Freeview signal. I understand that it was due to a freak weather condition, which I presume you had no control over. I was upset because I live alone and am elderly, and television is a vital commodity to prevent me feeling lonely and getting sad, so I was really very unhappy these last three days.
I was so pleased today to discover it is apparently alright now. Therefore I would like to know what is the possibility of this happening again, or is there anything you can do to prevent it? I would also like to know if there is any way you can prewarn me/us?
I would be most grateful for a response, because it was extremely frustrating not to have been able to make contact with anyone to find out what was happening.
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MikeP
8:08 PM
8:08 PM
Mrs Diana Amory:
The problems cause by temperature inversions is a well known natural phenomenon and has occured every year, sometimes several times a year for many many years, since broadcasts in the UHF bands started. There is nothing anyone can do about it and it will certainly occur again in the future.
All you can do, as a viewer, is to watch the weather forecasts for high pressure over your area. That does not guarantee there will be temperature inversions, but is also does not guarantee that there won't be.
Please DO NOT RETUNE when it does happen.
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Chris.SE8:13 PM
Mrs Diana Amory:
First let me wish you a happy new year and I'm sorry to hear it upset you, I know that others who live alone had similar feelings.
Yes it was adverse conditions called "Tropospheric propagation" or "Ducting" and is something that's more common in the summer, but the recent conditions have been unusually strong for the time of year, even in summer we rarely see it as strong as this.
Let me also say at this point, this is an independent help site, it's not the broadcasters, nor are we responsible for them, but I will say the abysmal lack of information they put out is unacceptable.
I'm afraid there's always a chance this could occur again due to unusual conditions, just like the weather in general has become more unusual at times, but it's not that common.
Do you not have a radio set you could use if this sort of thing happened again?
Whilst there are predictors out there that try to predict these conditions, they aren't 100% accurate, just like weather forecasts which can be inaccurate or suddenly change.
I hope your Freeview reception is normally OK.
Do post back if you have any more concerns or want any more help.
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Tuesday, 14 January 2020
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mike phillips10:31 AM
Pulborough
RH20 2NJ Newish roof aerial. Midhurst TX
I have been through all the hoops on problem solving, and am still puzzled why I get poor reception on PBS1 but not on the other Muxes. Even after the 'pressure pattern' issues I am still getting occasional pixellation ONLY on PBS1. Any suggestions? Is it likely to be a 700hz issue on that Mux?
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Transmitter engineering
10:47 PM
10:47 PM
MIDHURST transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to a fault from 14 Jan 20:43 until 14 Jan 20:48. . [BBC]
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Wednesday, 15 January 2020
Transmitter engineering
5:01 AM
5:01 AM
MIDHURST transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to a fault from 14 Jan 22:49 until 14 Jan 22:51. Off the air due to a fault from 14 Jan 20:43 until 14 Jan 20:48. . [BBC]
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Chris.SE9:55 AM
mike phillips:
According to the BBC, PSB1 had slightly reduced power due to a fault on the14th. See also reports above.
For Midhurst your aerial should be pointing ~WNW and tuned to UHF channels C48, C35, C36, C29, C34, C33 for PSBs1-3, COMs4-6. Your "newish aerial" should be a Group K or T (or wideband).
If you are tuned to C24, C27, C21 you are picking up Rowridge (~WSW).
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Saturday, 22 February 2020
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Mr Hawkins9:48 PM
Since the last time i have had to re-tune my device in October i do not seem to be able to series link record certain programmes on at least BBC1, ITV and Channel 5. Is there a reason for this. i can set each episode to record but the series link doesn't work. This never used to be a problem. I have done a reset on my youview box without luck and it is starting to get annoying. Any help would be appreciated but it has seemed to tie in from the last time we have had to retune for this transmitter
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