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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Sunday, 15 October 2023
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Stephen Benson8:39 AM
Horsham
Transmitter engineering: Postcode: RH135DA
Numerous outages at this postcode for the past few months. Similar reports at RH12 1JL.
Complete loss of all channels (weak or no signal). This occurs early morning and evening, mostly. Then all is fine. I suspect interference. Replaced aerial with little improvement . Aerial mounted 1metre pole above apex of 2 storey house.
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Chris.SE10:04 AM
Stephen Benson:
As you probably know, both those postcodes are in areas where reception is not the best and predicted to be variable. However, from your comments you obviously get quite reasonable reception the rest of the time.
Interference is a likely possibility as both postcodes should have received postcards from https://restoretv.uk and there's probably new/upgraded phone masts near you causing a problem.
You mentioned changing your aerial, which I hope was a Group K and not at Wideband or Group T. You haven't mentioned filters which you can get free from restoretv.
Did you ever get the postcards? We are aware that some people that should have received them, did not!
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Monday, 16 October 2023
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Stephen Benson7:44 AM
Horsham
Thank Chris, very helpful.
Yes Group K aerial fitted. Old triple Yagi Televes 45 was considered unnecessary anymore and it had a broken reflector arm.
I will follow up the filter suggestion. Haven't had any postcard in recent times and certainly not since this problem started. I reckon the enormous mast at the corner of Barttelot road RH12 1DE is the likely problem.
Thanks
Steve
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Stephen Benson9:00 AM
Chris SE
More precisely for the probable offending mast:
what3words: stops.sting.fence
Co-ords: 51.0612357, -0.3247314
Having checked, my previous antenna was the Televes 75.
No reception on any Midhurst station this morning, 16 Oct
Thanks,
Steve
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Chris.SE1:33 PM
Stephen Benson:
How strange that you are getting no reception. I've just done a quick check and can't find any current reports of any faults and it's not listed for Planned Engineering, nor does there appear to be any predicted "Tropo" about, though there may be some Tuesday morning but not the intensity we've just had.
Do all the obvious checks, aerial still pointing correctly, coax plugs, any powered splitters etc.
Yes, that huge mast IS the likely offender, from the (limited) checks I can do, it seem quite new and most likely will use 700MHz amongst other frequency allocations.
I've come across quite a few postcodes where postcards have "supposedly" been sent but "never" been received!
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Thursday, 14 March 2024
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Terry brown1:03 PM
Hello I've lost all bbc since this morning.
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Chris.SE10:24 PM
Terry brown:
You may have noticed the post before yours which states that the transmitter is currently listed for Planned Engineering, so interruptions to service or periods of reduced power can sometimes be expected.
If you lost signal or had badly pixellated pictures, I hope you didn't retune. - you can't tune to signals that aren't there or can't be decoded, the usual result is to just clear the correct tuning or sometimes tune you to very weak signals from another transmitter which eventually disappear.
If you still don't have the BBC channels, try a MANUAL retune of UHF channel C48 if the SD channels are missing and/or C36 if it's the HD channels.
If your set has automatic retuning that it does when it loses a signal, then turn that function off, it's far more trouble than it's worth.
If you are still having problems, post back with some more detail of what you've tried, checked etc, and also a full postcode so we can check predicted reception.
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