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 - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 20 Nov 05:50 until 20 Nov 05:53. . 
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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, 28 February 2011
Ann: The one thing you can be confident about is the power on Multiplex 2 being increased from 2kW to 20kW will make a huge improvement for you.
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Saturday, 26 March 2011
Ann,
We are in the top right hand side of the yellow coverage area And about 13 km from the transmitter at RH13 0RA and lose Mux A when it rains. I too believe this is degradation of the signal quality by leaves. I am able to measure signal strength using a spectrum analyser and although the signal strength does drop it is still strong enough to be above the signal strength required by the TV and set top boxes I use.
However the signal quality is too poor for the digital decoder to decode the signal. I believe this is because of the multiple paths that the signal has to take to get through the trees, an effect known as scintillation.
I'm hoping the problem will go away after switch over but as it's not a signal strength problem I am fearful it will not. So maybe the chain saw will have to come out. Only three dozen trees to remove!
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Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
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Andy Newark7:23 PM
Cranleigh
Am I alone in noticing that ITV 1+1 on Freeview 33 from Midhurst is carrying Meridian South East rather than South News? Interesting this, as I have been urging ITV and Sky for over 5 yrs to provide me(and doubtless other addresses in the Midhurst coverage area) with Meridian South on Sky Channel 103 rather than South-East, all to no avail! Can you point me in the right direction for advice please?
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Thursday, 7 April 2011
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Mike Dimmick8:05 AM
Andy Newark: It looks like ITV have bought the minimum possible equipment to provide the slots they have available on satellite. 6 slots, 6 Freeview services. The Meridian South-East ITV1 +1 regional service is actually broadcast throughout the Meridian and Anglia areas.
The ITV1 +1 Wales service is broadcast throughout Wales, the West and the south-west, so we're not alone.
The other services are London, Central West (so no East Midlands news), Yorkshire West and Granada. I'm not sure how Border and Tyne Tees are served.
As for Sky, they probably have you down as Meridian Sussex. ITV care more about their advertising regions than about the correct news service: see http://www.itvmedia.co.uk/assets/itvmedia/content/downloadables/itv%20meridian%20micro%202009.pdf for the advertising splits in the Meridian region. ITV's map at
ITV Local | Local Regional News & Weather - ITV
seems to put Midhurst in the 'Meridian West' news service and Heathfield in 'Meridian East'.
You can add other regional variants to the EPG using Add Channels. Follow the procedure at Add ITV 1 Regions, ITV1 Channels to Sky TV Digibox, Freesat . Some of the information is out-of-date but Meridian South is still on 10891 H according to Eurobird 1 & Astra 2A/2B/2D at 28.2°E - LyngSat . (RG47SH)
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Saturday, 11 June 2011
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Lucy7:15 PM
Horsham
Hi,
Since the morning of the 11th June I have had no TV signal. Any ideas
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Sunday, 12 June 2011
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Matt12:14 PM
Godalming
You say that I should get the strongest signal from Crystal Palalce. I get 30dbuv/m more from guildford.
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Robin Schroeter7:59 PM
Horsham
For over a week now we have had weaker than usual signal. ITV, and the weaker channels are unwatchable, postcode RH12 5PJ, we have various recorders, all reporting poor signal. Is there a problem with the transmitter?
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Monday, 13 June 2011
Robin Schroeter: No, there is no problem with the transmitter. Please see Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice for help.
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