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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Thursday, 3 May 2018
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Peter Simpson8:49 PM
Joe B:
Thanks Joe, I'll chase Freeview as well to add a little more pressure.
Regards, Peter
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Saturday, 19 May 2018
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Gekko7710:50 PM
IF the problem is down to AR problems (see post on page 94) then running a manually set timer recording rathrr than one through EPG should be ok as AR is not used for manual timer recording.
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Monday, 21 May 2018
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Joe B9:04 AM
Gekko77:
Thanks for the thought. I've tried a purely manual recording on one of the affected channels and it still doesn't work, so nothing to do with AR if what you say is correct. Ho hum!
I wonder if Trading Standards would be interested in expensive items which used to work but are no longer fit for purpose?
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Peter Simpson12:37 PM
Joe B:
I have found likewise, a manually set timer doesn't trigger.
We had another "New channels - please re-tune" message today but after clearing and re-loading the channels there was no change - my Panasonic still won't record any channels on the PSB3 / BBCB multiplex.
Time to chase Freeview and Panasonic again. And yes, definitely worth raising with Trading Standards!
Regards, Peter
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Wednesday, 23 May 2018
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Pete Forman10:51 PM
My Panasonic PVR has just updated its software version to 1.39. I will retune tomorrow to see if the BBC B recording from Midhurst has been fixed.
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Thursday, 24 May 2018
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Peter Simpson6:08 PM
Pete Forman:
Hi Pete,
It seems that Panasonic released 15 firmware updates yesterday, I hope that this works for you. The release description just says " Network service compatibility". Unfortunately still no update for my DMR-BWT720.
Regards, Peter
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Peter Simpson6:26 PM
Peter Simpson:
GOOD NEWS UPDATE!! - I just received an email from FreeView saying that the problem is fixed and I have found that I can now record BBC1 HD again!
There was no need to re-tune, it just started working. Hopefully this will be the end to this sorry saga.!
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Friday, 25 May 2018
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Les Allwood10:05 AM
Limited good news for some. Unfortunately, the myriad of updates released did not include the DMR-HWT150. According to Panasonic support this morning, work continues with no planned release date as yet. Still I wait ...
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Saturday, 26 May 2018
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Les Allwood8:01 AM
Although no update had been released for my DMR-HWT150, on a whim I decided to try a test HD recording. Lo and behold, it worked! Whilst this is an excellent outcome, it raises a lot of questions.
We all agree that the problems started when Freeview did a channel change at the end of March. Then followed nearly two months when both Freeview and Panasonic professed ignorance and effectively blamed each other. Panasonic have now issued updates for many devices without stating that this particular issue has been addressed. Simultaneously the problem appears to have been cured. However, that does not explain why those devices which did not require an update have now started working. To a layman like me, the finger points clearly at Freeview. If that is the case, why did it take Freeview so long to make the correction, and why didn't Panasonic tell their numerous complaining customers where the fault lay?
Whilst I am delighted that I can now record HD channels, my faith in Panasonic has been severely dented. I doubt we'll ever know the full story. However, I would like to thank those on this forum who, being more knowledgeable and persistent, have forced the relevant parties to fix the problem. Well done guys!
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