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.
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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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Tuesday, 3 January 2012
MIDHURST transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV (Four, Cbeebies, Parliament, 3... Weak Signal from 11:58 today BBC Digital TV (One, Two, Three, CBBC, News) Weak Signal from 11:58 today [BBC] 03 January 2012: All services are off-air at the Midhurst transmitter due a power failure. Engineers are en route. [DUK]
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MIDHURST transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV (Four, Cbeebies, Parliament, 3... Weak Signal from 11:58 today BBC Digital TV (One, Two, Three, CBBC, News) Weak Signal from 11:58 today [BBC] 03 January 2012: All services are off-air at the Midhurst transmitter due a power failure. Engineers are en route. [DUK]
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Gina Callini5:37 PM
Burgess Hill
Have lost all channels up to ch9 plus many others, leaving just 65 including radio since midday today. This is across my 3 televisions.
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John Hannah5:45 PM
Horsham
RH12 3LG thats Broadbridge Heath near Horsham NO SIGNAL back to dvd watching.
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John6:01 PM
Hassocks
John:
Service now restored.
Many thanks.
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Chris Booth6:02 PM
Alton area. Midhurst back up about a couple of minutes ago.
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james6:17 PM
still no freeveiw in chiddingfold but analog is back on apart from ch4. i see a post from the engineers saying there is a power failure and they are on route....... since 11.58 this morning?? and like chris1 says, no back on time ??
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MIDHURST transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV (Four, Cbeebies, Parliament, 3... Weak Signal from 11:58 today to 15:32 today BBC Digital TV (Four, Cbeebies, Parliament, 3... Off Air from 15:32 today BBC Digital TV (One, Two, Three, CBBC, News) Weak Signal from 11:58 today to 15:32 today [BBC] 03 January 2012: We understand that all services are currently off-air at the Midhurst transmitter due a power failure. [DUK]
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MIDHURST transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV (Four, Cbeebies, Parliament, 3... Weak Signal from 11:58 today to 15:32 today BBC Digital TV (Four, Cbeebies, Parliament, 3... Off Air from 15:32 today BBC Digital TV (One, Two, Three, CBBC, News) Weak Signal from 11:58 today to 15:32 today [BBC] 03 January 2012: We understand that all services are currently off-air at the Midhurst transmitter due a power failure. [DUK]
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Roy Wicking8:01 PM
Have lost all itv channel 4 and 5 programmes and ESPN through both my top up tv box and freeview tv. reception from Midhurst and appear to only have BBC
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