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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.

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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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 H max
C48 (690.0MHz)299mDTG-20,000W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) South, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others

PSB2
D3+4
 H max
C35 (586.0MHz)299mDTG-20,000W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian (West micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Meridian south coast), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 H max
C36 (594.0MHz)299mDTG-20,000W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

COM4
SDN
 H -3dB
C29 (538.0MHz)299mDTG-810,000W
Channel icons
20 U&Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 U&Dave ja vu, 58 ITV3 +1, 59 ITV4 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 91 WildEarth, 93 ITVBe +1, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 251 Al Jazeera English, 255 FRANCE 24 (in English), 265 Rok Sky +1, plus 29 others

COM5
ArqA
 H -3dB
C34 (578.0MHz)300mDTG-810,000W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 U&Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 U&Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 &UYesterday +1, 76 That's TV 2 MCR, 233 Sky News, plus 13 others

COM6
ArqB
 H -3dB
C33 (570.0MHz)300mDTG-810,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 U&W, 27 U&Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 63 GREAT! romance mix, 73 HobbyMaker, 75 That's 90s, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

DTG-8 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?

regional news image
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 51km west-southwest (256°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
regional news image
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?

1984-971997-981998-20122012-132013-182013-1716 Oct 2019
C/D EC/D EC/D EC/D EC/D E TC/D E TK T
C29SDN
C33ArqB
C34ArqA
C35D3+4
C36BBCB
C48BBCA
C50tv_offArqBArqBArqB
C54tv_off SDNSDN
C55tv_offBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCABBCA
C56tv_off D3+4D3+4
C58tv_offITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesBBCBBBCBBBCB
C59tv_offArqAArqAArqA
C61BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesD3+4
C62SDN
C68C4wavesC4wavesC4waves

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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

Aug 1958-Jan 1992Southern Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992Television South (TVS)
Jan 1993-Feb 2004Meridian
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Midhurst was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Comments
Monday, 13 February 2023
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Robert
12:42 PM

From location RH149QS

Intermittent 'no signal' message on screen.

Tuned into Midhurst transmitter.

All channels appear to show good signal strength. But signal quality mostly zero. Though sometimes channel 34 shows reasonable quality and shows picture and sound ok.

Please can you cure this problem from Midhurst transmitter?

Thanks.


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Chris.SE
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2:13 PM

Robert:

There are currently no reported problems with the transmitter and it's not been listed for Planned Engineering recently. This is an independent technical help-site so we couldn't cure a problem if there was one and for Planned Engineering you'd have to wait until work was complete.

What you are probably seeing is down to current weather conditions, there is some tropospheric ducting/temperature inversion which sometimes occurs with high pressure, more common in the summer but can occur at other times.
This produces interference as signals from other transmitter in Europe or the UK travel further than normal. The set will often initially see this as a reduction in signal quality until the point it cannot decode the signals and the signal can go to zero as it looks just like noise.
Current conditions are quite strong and are periodically affecting large parts of the UK.

Not all multiplexes will be affected at the same time, it'll depend on where the interference is coming from. Do NOT retune, retuning when you have no signal or badly pixellated pictures often just clears the correct tuning or you get tuned to an interfering signal which will disappear as conditions change.

The BBC have issued warnings.
For a simplistic explanation, see https://www.bbc.co.uk/rec…ure.

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Monday, 5 June 2023
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Sylvia Knowles
8:24 AM
Burgess Hill

RH15 9QH
Since the fine weather started, I have been unable to watch ITV or BBC channels without constant interference. ITV is the worst, with both sound & vision badly affected. I have taken advice from a local aerial co., who say it is 'just the weather'. I am a lone pensioner who watches a lot of TV so this is very annoying. I am reduced to viewing on my laptop!
Please help.

Thank you.

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Chris.SE
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

12:55 PM

Sylvia Knowles :

I'm afraid there is a lot of weather related interference around at present, both the BBC and Freeview have issued warnings about possible interference.
One thing NOT to do is retune whilst you have badly affected sound or pixellated pictures as this can clear the correct tuning and possibly get you tuned to incorrect weaker signals which will continue the problem.
IF you have retuned, check in your TV Tuning Section that you are correctly tuned to Midhurst's UHF channels as listed at the very top of this page (get a friend to help if need be).

If your aerial installation is up-to-scratch, there is little you can do except wait for conditions to change. How old (roughly) is the aerial and cable?
Do you have any aerial amplifier/splitter for more than one TV?

Another possibility is interference from Mobile phone mast signals which may cause direct interference or reduce the sensitivity of your receiver depending on their strength and make reception less reliable. You should have received a postcard from https://restoretv.uk/
In your case, without the weather related issues, your BBC channels may be affected the worst.

If you post back with a bit more information, we might be able to advise further.

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Monday, 12 June 2023
D
David C Read
11:15 AM

What aerial group issued.
Is it 'K'
V or H please advise.

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Chris.SE
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11:36 AM

David C Read:

As shown at the top of the page, you need a Group K aerial with it's rods (or squashed Xs) horizontal.

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Thursday, 20 July 2023
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Graham
5:06 PM

Why are we getting BBC London news instead of BBC Southampton what's going on in our area Petetsfield

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Guil
6:22 PM

Why has my Sky satellite dish after25 years started to receive today BBC TV South East local news instead of BBC South Today.?

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Steve Donaldson
sentiment_satisfiedSilver

6:52 PM

Graham, Guil : It's because the journalists are on strike:

BBC South: Journalists strike again over Radio Solent cuts | Daily Echo

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Tuesday, 25 July 2023
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Gordon
12:21 AM
Midhurst

Postcode GU29 0EH House no.2 recently moved in.
My Sony TV does not show the Midhurst transmitter in the available transmitters in the retune / setup menu it only shows Southampton and Salisbury
Reception is poor on most channels with pixelation notably on PSB2 TV channels i.e. ITV, Ch4, etc.

TV aerial is in the loft space and not sure which direction its supposed to be pointing.
I believe the Midhurst transmitter is 5-6km away roughly in a northerly direction from my new house.
What would be the line of sight to the Midhurst transmitter in degrees east or west of due north of my property?
It would be easy to redirect the aerial as its in the loft.
Any advice on the correct direction / alignment would be most welcome.
Thank you.

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