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: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 10 Nov 11:53 until 10 Nov 12:59. . 
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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, 23 April 2018
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Joe B5:52 PM
Peter Simpson: Thank you for the update from Panasonic (I assume you mean Fri 20th Apr?!). I'm still chasing Freeview (help@freeview.co.uk) for progress and sent another e-mail today asking for an update.
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Peter Simpson5:56 PM
Pete Forman:
Hi Pete,
Yes I saw that post and similar ones that seem to have popped up from time to time. My guess is that there is a hardware limitation or flaw in the Panasonic firmware that is triggered by revised data being received from Freeview.
I suspect that Panasonic don't have control of this data and need to lobby someone to have it made Panasonic friendly. I suspect that this is why the problem just goes away of its own accord when whoever it is fixes the data stream. I'd be surprised if the data change had to coincide with a channel frequency change to come into effect.
No reply to my chase mail so far, I'll post here if I get anything hopeful.
I think it would be very good for everyone affected to actively lobby Panasonic about this issue, it's been a month now and the official line is that they are still "analysing the problem" - not good enough in my view!
Regards, Peter
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Tuesday, 24 April 2018
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Charles1:47 PM
Horsham
Adding to my earlier posts I am now getting better signal quality and strength for Mux channel 33 (ArqB) with only occasional blocking for the TV channels but it is observed that the signal quality strength does vary quite a lot. Mux channel 29 (SDN) remains solid without any dips in strength.
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Charles's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Wednesday, 25 April 2018
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Michael12:42 PM
Just checked and my Panasonic DMR HWT250 must have auto updated firmware from 1.19 to V1.21,
to rectify "Network service compatibility" and from what i can see it hasn't made a blind bit of difference.
It cannot pause live tv the banner says "no signal for operation"
Instant record now shows a solid red light giving the impression it's recording but it doesn't,
timer recording on single and series link still put the recording on permanent pause so no change there.
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Michael2:42 PM
Update
just spoke to Panasonic customer services,and they state the v1.21 update wasn't supposed to resolve the recording issue,but was for a different problem.
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Peter Simpson6:10 PM
Michael:
Hi Michael,
Likewise, I've just received a further mail from Panasonic support saying that they are still investigating the non-recording problem. Also that they don't have a timeline for a fix or any information that they are prepared to release as to what the cause is or what the fix is likely to be.
Regards, Peter
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Friday, 27 April 2018
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Charles7:40 AM
Horsham
Signal quality on channel 33 the last couple of says very up and down but this morning is hovering between 93% and 100% which is the best it has been since the retune.
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Charles's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 1 May 2018
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Joe B6:01 PM
Peter Simpson:
I've also now had a reply from Panasonic:
"In regards to your query, I would like to inform you that the issue you described is currently being investigated by our company. As you mentioned the problem was triggered by the changes in the Freeview signal and we are working towards a resolution, however this might take some time as the matter seems to only affect recorders that connect to the Midhurst transmitter, hence this seems to point out to a transmitter issue rather then an actual device problem. Regrettably, we do not have any troubleshooting steps to fix this currently, however I will be able to update you on the matter as soon as we have more details available."
There are some suggestions on other forums that Accurate Recording (AR) signals might be involved, with the broadcast AR signal not matching the channel identifier on the box (I'd post the link but can't find the discussion just now). Whatever, it does seem that Freeview and Panasonic are aware and trying to fix.
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Thursday, 3 May 2018
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Peter Simpson2:25 PM
Joe B:
Hi Joe,
Many thanks for your update, do you have any idea who we can lobby at Freeview or their data management out-sourcers to get the data fixed?
Regards, Peter
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Joe B4:44 PM
Peter Simpson: My only contact was via their website and e-mail thereafter:
Viewer Support
Freeview Advice Line
Support | Freeview
e: help@freeview.co.uk
t: 03456 50 50 50
a: PO Box 26833, Kirkcaldy, KY2 9AG
I'm following up with both Freeview and Panasonic at regular intervals to try to keep their focus on fixing the issue, but I only have publicly issued contacts.
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