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?
Midhurst transmitter - Midhurst transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 09/09/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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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Monday, 20 April 2020
Transmitter engineering
10:28 AM
10:28 AM
MIDHURST transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 19 Apr 16:44 until 19 Apr 16:45. Slightly reduced power due to a fault from 13 Apr 08:21 until 13 Apr 15:49. . [BBC]
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Tuesday, 21 April 2020
Transmitter engineering
10:26 PM
10:26 PM
MIDHURST transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 19 Apr 16:44 until 19 Apr 16:45. . [BBC]
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Sunday, 24 May 2020
Transmitter engineering
10:28 PM
10:28 PM
MIDHURST transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 23 May 13:22 until 23 May 13:24. . [BBC]
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Thursday, 27 August 2020
Transmitter engineering
10:28 PM
10:28 PM
MIDHURST transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 27 Aug 17:01 until 27 Aug 17:08. . [BBC]
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Friday, 4 September 2020
Transmitter engineering
4:33 AM
4:33 AM
MIDHURST transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 27 Aug 17:01 until 27 Aug 17:08. . [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
10:28 PM
10:28 PM
MIDHURST transmitter - DAB: Reduced quality due to a fault from 13 Aug 23:42 until 13 Aug 23:52. . [BBC]
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Sunday, 20 September 2020
C
C Burlison-Rush5:39 PM
Horsham
@Chris.SE
It turned out that the original aerial installer didn't use a big enough poll (which was a scaffold pole cut to size) to clear the neighbours roof opposite our house! That and the trees behind the houses made for very poor reception. Now got the aerial on top of a nice 20ft poll and all mux's show 100% across the board! Fortunately the aerial is good quality I was told.
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Tuesday, 22 September 2020
C
Chris.SE12:33 AM
C Burlison-Rush:
Glad it's been sorted :)
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Wednesday, 23 September 2020
M
Mike10:48 PM
Another bad night of reception
Why can I not receive the Freeview channels on Southwater that I Want to watch
All of the BBC channels which I don't want to watch are crystal clear, but the channels I want to watch have no signal
What is going wrong????
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Thursday, 24 September 2020
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Chris.SE12:03 AM
Mike:
It might be more helpful if you were quite specific about WHICH channels that you had no signals for! AND provided a full postcode so that we can check the predicted reception for you location.
That said, Freshwater in general should have no problems receiving signals from Midhurst under normal circumstances.
There had been a lot of quite strong "Tropospheric Ducting" around causing interference, see Effect of tropospheric ducting on Freeview | RTIS for a simplistic explanation. It can be quite variable, come and go within seconds, minutes or hours. It has been particularly strong recently which can wipe out your reception.
If you happened to retune when you had no signal or it was badly pixellated, all it may have done is just clear correct tuning and may have tuned to other weaker transmitters maybe Hannington or Haslemere. The advice is NOT to retune in these conditions as you then have to repeat the retune when signals stabilise.
I'd suggest you unplug the aerial and do a full automatic retune which should clear all previous tuning.
Plug the aerial back in and repeat the retune which will hopefully restore all channels.
It would be a good idea if you checked in the TV Tuning section that you are tuned to the correct UHF channels for Midhurst, these are C48, C35, C36, C29, C34, & C33 in the order PSBs1-3, COMs4-6.
For which channels are on which multiplex see Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview
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