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, 3 November 2011
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John4:43 PM
Horsham
I guess, in theory, as Heathfield doesn't close it's ITV1 until 13th June, I may have to wait until then.
So be it....
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John's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
John: You have to wait until 14 Mar 12, you don't have to wait for Heathfield to close because the frequencies change at Midhurt in March there will be no clash.
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John8:05 PM
Brighton
Oh yes, I see that now.
Thanks
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John's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 28 November 2011
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bryan wade10:20 AM
Ryde
bryan wade: aeral on roof directed at midhurst only
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bryan's: mapB's Freeview map terrainB's terrain plot wavesB's frequency data B's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 20 December 2011
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Bob Brundrett10:29 AM
I live on the side of a valley in Ryde, Isle of Wight and am unable to get a signal from the Rowridge transmitter. Our arial points at the Midhurst transmitter. We occasionally suffer poor or loss of signal in certain weather or atmospheric conditions. Will our reception improve noticeably after switch over and will we receive all freeview channels?
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Bob Brundrett: The power of the digital signal will be increased at switchover. It will therefore serve areas that it didn't before, or improve those which were iffy.
All transmitters that broadcast Freeview prior to switchover will broadcast all the channels (including the commercial ones) post-switchover.
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jb3811:45 AM
Bob Brundret: Unfortunately not as far as Midhurst is concerned, as using Ryde post office as a reception test code indicates variable as applying even in 2014, that said though you may well receive it better next March 14th when its power increases from 2Kw to 20Kw, but it is still shown as being variable so nothing is guaranteed.
Rowridge on the other hand "might" become possible (albeit via a stable reflection) next March 21st when the PSB muxes go onto high power operation, that is up from 20Kw to 200Kw, in April 18th the commercial muxes likewise increase power, although this only up to 50Kw.
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Bob Brudrett, jb38: Bob, the predictor shows a much better result for Midhurst at what I believe to be your address than at the Ryde Post Office.
Go to the Digital UK website and enter your post code and house number and click the box to say that you are in the trade and it will come up with the prediction of reception both pre and post switchover.
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jb383:37 PM
Dave Lindsay: Yes! you could possibly be quite correct there, as although anywhere that forecasts about 100% variable reception across the board for the given code never really contains that many chosen spots where it doesn't apply, I fully appreciate that they do exist.
Bob Brundrett: This being the reason why as Dave Lindsay has touched on, post codes are so essential with queries such as yours, as it helps to cut down the element of error that's always present with any reply to a reception query, as RF signals up to a point have a mind of their own and frequently do not conform to forecasts made about where they will reach, or indeed not as the case may be, especially in areas such as your own.
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Wednesday, 21 December 2011
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Barry9:16 PM
Steyning
In November we started to lose reception on channels such as ITV1, ITV2 etc. which rendered them unwatchable. The BBC channels are OK. I thought it was due to weather conditions as prior to that we would have 'bad' days where certain channels were unwatchable. The problem is, even after retuning the TV, I can only really watch the BBC channels. Im in BN44 3YW. Do I have to wait until March 2012 before I can utilise Freeview again? I've gone back to analogue which is a retrograde step in my mind.
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Barry's: mapB's Freeview map terrainB's terrain plot wavesB's frequency data B's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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