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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Wednesday, 29 May 2019
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David hulme2:16 PM
On Tuesday the 28th may we had massive interference all day, could someone confirm that there was a problem, my post code is Gu315bp and my email is dbhulme @outlook.com today Wednesday 29th this disruption has cleared. Not sure if we have a problem with our TV. Thanks.
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MikeP
11:02 PM
11:02 PM
David Hulme:
I cannot find any reports of any engineering work recently on the Midhurst transmitter. So I suggest you check all your aerial cables and connections. Unplug all the coaxial plugs/sockets and refit them, that will clear any oxidation from the contact surfaces which is known to cause problems such as you report. It could, of course, be local temporary interference.
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Friday, 28 June 2019
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Steve Rice7:03 PM
Horsham
All programs on C48 have a very weak signal and poor signal quality. Other channels received from Midhurst are fine. Aerial is mounted externally on a mast on the roof of the house
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Charles11:53 PM
Horsham
Reception for me very week on C48 (BBCA) as well.
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Saturday, 29 June 2019
MikeP
7:53 PM
7:53 PM
Steve and Charles:
It is likely to be due to the very hot weather we are currently experiencing. There is no cure as it is not a fault and DO NOT RETUNE.
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Chris.SE11:26 PM
There was a report of a transmitter fault prior to those posts with weak signal for the BBC mux UHF48 but that was the 25th and should now be cleared assuming the information is correct. Otherwise as Mike suggests it's very likely due to current weather conditions.
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Sunday, 30 June 2019
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Charles6:20 PM
Horsham
@ Mike P.
Signal is ok now. The problems started to happen a few days before the hot weather with other channels not affected.
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Charles's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 30 September 2019
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Jason Rawlins3:28 PM
Billingshurst
Transmitter engineering: Intermittent HD signal/quality since 27th Sept 2019. Good quality and signal, then drops to zero for a few seconds then comes back on good signal
All fine until end of last week
Billingshurst
RH14 9QT
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Chris.SE6:29 PM
Jason Rawlins:
Putting your postcode into About us | Freeview shows that you should normally get very good reception from Midhurst.
There is Planned Engineering at Midhurst this week with "Possible weak signal". I guess this is in preparation for the Retune event on the 16th Oct. when the PSB3/BBCB (HD) mux moves from C58 to C36, the PSB2/D3&4 (ITV/C4) mux moves from C54 to C35, and the COM5/ArqA mux moves from C59 to C34.
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Thursday, 10 October 2019
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Richard watts9:22 PM
Hi I dont have a free view problem but a DAB problem. I live in petworth GU289NS and drive to chichester every day listening to BBC R2 on DAB normally it only cuts out in petworth town in 2 specific places other wise really good. But the last few days it has cut out more than on as if something has been moved or switched off. Dont really think its the car as has been ok.
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