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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Thursday, 1 December 2016
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StevensOnln111:14 AM
A P West: There have been no reported faults or planned maintenance at Midhurst so local interference would seem a more likely explanation.
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mikeP
1:12 PM
1:12 PM
John:
Because of tropospheric layer inversion effects. It is perfectly normal and has been happening for many, many years with UHF signal transmissions. As it is a natural phenomenon there is nopthing anyone can do about it. DO NOT retune your equipment else you are very likely to lose even nmore channels.
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Thursday, 29 December 2016
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Darrall Lea10:26 PM
There seems to be a signal issue all the HD free view channels and 1,3 around Steyning, Upper Beeding and Small Dole , keep cutting out .
Please can someone sort it or at least let the customers know!
Thank you
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Sunday, 1 January 2017
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Paul8:25 PM
We used to have HD via Midhurst. used to.
Now we've lost the lot because some bright spark forgot to include Midhurst in the COM7/8 transmitter upgrade before they took the channels away. The advice to use Crystal Palace is useless, because CP is over 40 miles away and we are in a poor reception area for that transmitter.
There's no timescale either as to when Midhurst will be upgraded, I'm left with a HD television that is about as much use as a chocolate fireguard. But then, anybody who lives outside of the London centric area always gets a poor deal when it comes to any digital services.
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Monday, 2 January 2017
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StevensOnln111:58 AM
Paul: No HD channels have been taken away from Midhurst or any other transmitter. BBC One HD, BBC Two HD, ITV HD, Channel 4 HD, Channel 5 HD & CBBC HD are broadcast on the PSB3 multiplex from every transmitter and have nothing to do with the availability or COM7 & COM8. PSB3 is broadcast from Midhurst on C58 at 20kW (the same power level as PSB1 & PSB2). If you have lost this for an extended period of time then you have a fault with your aerial system, which no amount of upgrading at the transmitter will fix.
Also, COM7 & COM8 will never be coming to Midhurst or any transmitter other than the 30 main sites which broadcast both muxes to around 70% of households. This is because both are temporary services which will be closing in 2020 and were never planned to have any further coverage due to the cost involved and lack of available broadcast frequencies (which aren't available beyond 2020 anyway).
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Saturday, 11 February 2017
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Mark11:35 PM
How big a loft aerial do I need at GU26 6F_ postcode at 15m height for midhurst freeview HD please.
Can you link a example amazon uk one thanks
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Mark's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 12 February 2017
MikeP
8:29 PM
8:29 PM
Mark:
You're on;y 11 km from the Midhirst transmitter so it would be unlikely that you need a large, high gain aerial. In fact that could cause more problems than it solves.
The best solution is to use a log-periodic aerial. You could consider aone from Amazon here "Raptor" 4G/LTE ready Log Periodic Digital HD TV Aerial: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics
Note that how many elements are needed depends on how good the signal reception actually is. So it is often better to start with an aerial with good gain and if the signal; is too strong then insert an attenuator into the down lead just behind the TV set's aerial input socket - but do not put the attenuator directly into the socket as it will cause damage! Best to use a short flylead between attenuator and TV socket.
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Tuesday, 31 October 2017
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chris blackford9:24 PM
I live in Hassocks. We always seem to have freeview signal prolems when high pressure weather systems occur, and when foggy etc. our antenna faces the Midhurst transmitter. Tonight is a particular example where virtually all ITV, Channel 4 etc were down to zero signal quality.
IHassocks is very low land kevel below the siuth downs . It seems to me a local reoeater transmitter woukd resolve the issue.
I d like you comments
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Sunday, 5 November 2017
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Geoff Petto3:54 PM
When will Midhurst transmit channels 81 and 82?
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StevensOnln19:20 PM
Geoff Petto: Talking Pictures (Freeview channel 81) have announced that they will be moving to the COM6 multiplex on 30th November and will therefore be available from Midhurst from then onwards.
Vintage TV (channel 82) have not announced any plans to move from COM7, which along with COM8 is a temporary multiplex available from 30 main transmitters covering around 75% of UK households and is due to close in 2020 (with a possible extension until 2022). COM7/8 will not be added to any further transmitters.
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