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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Thursday, 28 June 2018
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Andrew Murphy9:14 PM
Pete Forman: I agree with you Pete, I have an aerial in the loft on Midhurst, even though I am in the Catisfield area of Fareham and have much reduced field strengths than if I was in the principal service area, and have been expeiencing the lack of signal too.
It got so bad yesterday, I was forced to 'de-camp' back on to Rowridge. Even though the signals are 10x Stronger at Rowridge, than Midhurst, if using Vertical Polarisation, there were a few times that Rowridge was breaking up, but only for a few seconds at a time, so your right to put it down to atmospherics1 :)
I think the correct term is 'Tropospheric Ducting' if my memory serves me right; and the best course of action is to let the 'Lift Conditions' pass, as they say: 'Less is More'! :)
Hope this helps,
Andrew! :)
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Charles 9:47 PM
Horsham
I am not having issues with BBCB mux as I am preferring to use HD channels for BBC over SD. Lots of picture breakup on BBCA this evening. It could be that engineering work might happen in the next week or so if there is an issue with the transmitter that is.
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Charles's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Friday, 29 June 2018
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Pete Forman1:37 PM
Charles: I think that you are confused over the multiplex names. BBCB / PSB3 carries the only HD channels while BBCA / PSB1 carries SD and radio. (Other transmitters have more HD channels.) See the information further up this web page.
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Charles 6:53 PM
Horsham
Pete: Confused? Not sure what you mean as I know BBCA carries SD and radio and it is this mux that is poor for me at the moment. Because BBCB mux is fine I am preferring to watch BBC HD channels at the moment to watch BBC channels where possible. I am aware Midhurst doesn't carry COM7 and COM8 which has the additional HD channels such as BBC Four HD etc. Some of the channel numbers and the associated frequencies above are out of date though.
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Charles's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
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Richard L9:00 AM
BBCB Mux of the Midhurst Transmitter is still being transmitted on 770Mhz (C 58)
Does this mean that it has not yet been migrated to 578Mhz (C 34)?
I cannot scan anything from 578Mhz (C 34) using Tvheadend with these settings -DTG-6 256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4.
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Pete Forman1:24 PM
Richard L: The frequencies shown on this web page are wrong despite many comments pointing this out, since long before the change. BBC B remained on C58 on the 21st March update.
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Wednesday, 4 July 2018
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Richard L9:01 AM
Pete Forman:
Thanks for confirming.
Does anyone actually have 'ownership' of the site and keep it accurate?
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StevensOnln110:09 AM
Richard L: This website is owned by Briantist. As far as I'm aware, no one else has access to make any updates or do anything about the spam in the comments.
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Friday, 13 July 2018
The frequencies listed for Midhurst are conflicting and appear to be incorrect as at 13 July 2018. Publication of the Midhurst frequencies is essential in some areas, particularly Horsham, West Sussex, where the Rowridge transmitter lies within the same capture angle, has a much higher power than Midhurst (but generally poorer quality) and often overrides the Automatic set up on TV's. In addition, the reception problems are exacerbated by Heathfield lying directly behind the antenna. Manual set up therefore becomes essential using the published frequency tables.
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MikeP
3:43 PM
3:43 PM
Stephen Benson:
Please look at Digital UK - Coverage checker and enter your post code. That will then show you the current and predicted future channel usage.
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