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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Tuesday, 14 April 2015
Dave Lindsay
11:18 AM
11:18 AM
Finn: It is not likely to be the case that Midhurst will never carry BBC Four HD and BBC News HD.
COM7 (and the forthcoming COM8) have built on a shoestring due to their relative short life expectancy of 5 years. This including utilising equipment already in existence.
The objective was to cover as many as possible for least cost in order to encourage take-up of HD (DVB-T2) receivers. It's really a pre-switchover service.
The 30 transmitters which carry COM7 (and will carry COM8) do not broadcast them at the same power as the other channels, so it in no way means 100% of users of those transmitters can achieve stable reception.
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Wednesday, 15 April 2015
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Finn1:34 PM
Thanks for your reply Dave and sorry that I incorrectly called COM7 MUX7 :-).
I'm a bit confused, though. What will replace COM7 and when could that potentially happen on the Midhurst transmitter, giving us BBC Four HD and BBC News HD?
And slightly off topic regarding BBC's recent declaration of a desire to broadcast 4K in 2016: How will they be able to do that seen that they currently can't even broadcast all their channels in HD?
BBC aims to broadcast 4K TV as standard by 2016 | What Hi-Fi?
In general, does DVB-T2 have enough bandwidth to broadcast 4K, eg using H.265/HEVC?
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Dave Lindsay
5:21 PM
5:21 PM
Finn: The multiplexes as they exist now (as in what services they carry) may be rejigged in the future.
In 2018 attention will probably turn to selling off more of the band used for TV to the mobile operators. Channels 61 to 69 have already been farmed out for 4G with the 50s likely to follow suit. This means that the expanse of frequencies available for TV broadcast will be further erroded which is likely to mean replanning of existing services.
Obviously the move will be to DVB-T2 meaning another "switchover". While some services could stay DVB-T, more may move to DVB-T2 which would explain the current encouragement of uptake of such devices by the extra services of COM7 (and COM8).
BBC Three is set to close (I believe it's been confirmed), so the capacity currently taken by BBC Three HD (on PSB3) will, I suppose, be given over to BBC Four HD. This will obviously mean it becoming available from all transmitters.
I'm not familiar with "4k TV". I also wonder whether there will be a "DVB-T3" come along. Again, I don't know but imagine that it's likely to be in development.
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Friday, 6 November 2015
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Terry Denman7:41 PM
Haslemere
I am in Haslemere in Surrey and in my GU27 2AX location we used to have a fairly strong signal from the Midhurst transmitter. Lately however it has gone down hill badly any reason you can give me and my friends next door please? The Haslemere transmitter takes away loads of our favourite stations and we really don't want to loose them.
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Terry's: mapT's Freeview map terrainT's terrain plot wavesT's frequency data T's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 8 November 2015
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MikeP7:01 PM
Trowbridge
Terry Denman et al:
There have been many recent reports of such reception problems, and there have been many reports of atmospheric affects that can cause just the situation you report. So it is quite likely that the well known 'temperature inversion' effect may well be causing your problems. In such a situation do NOT try to retune your equipment as you are likely to lose even more channels.
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Tuesday, 29 December 2015
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David Talks11:09 PM
Does anyone know about the BBC4 outage today, 29/12/15? I set my DVD recorder to record from 7 pm (Dr Who and the RI Christmas lecture) to be greeted when I played back by 2 hrs of the BBC4 black info screen that says it starts broadcasting from 7, which, in this case, it clearly didn't !
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MikeB11:46 PM
David Talks: I certainly watched the end of The Mind of Evil on BBC4, so it wasn't the channel generally. Midhurst has no reported problems via RTI. Anyone else had a problem from Midhurst?
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Wednesday, 30 December 2015
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David Talks3:17 PM
Just to add , I'm in Camelsdale so we have the repeater in Haslemere which only relays a limited mux from the Midhurst tx.
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Thursday, 7 January 2016
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GD7:42 PM
Horsham
Reception in the RH12 5HX area has been generally poor over the last 6 months with pixelation such that programmes have been unwatchable. There has been no change to the set up within the house, and mast head and splitter have been replaced without any improvement. A recent visit by an aerial specialist identified that what was once a good digital signal from Midhurst is now virtually so poor on even a test aerial that the guy could hardly read it!
There have been no building works in the local area, the leaves have gone from the trees, and I despair of gaining any improvement without a 50' mast!
Suggestions on a post card please, or an admission by the BBC as to what has happened at Midhurst
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