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: Reduced quality due to a fault from 17 Sep 23:45 until 17 Sep 23:52. Reduced quality due to a fault from 17 Sep 23:45 until 18 Sep 23:52. Off the air due to a fault from 17 Sep 23:40 until 17 Sep 23:42. Off the air due to a fault from 17 Sep 22:1 
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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, 30 December 2015
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David Talks3:17 PM
Just to add , I'm in Camelsdale so we have the repeater in Haslemere which only relays a limited mux from the Midhurst tx.
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Thursday, 7 January 2016
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GD7:42 PM
Horsham
Reception in the RH12 5HX area has been generally poor over the last 6 months with pixelation such that programmes have been unwatchable. There has been no change to the set up within the house, and mast head and splitter have been replaced without any improvement. A recent visit by an aerial specialist identified that what was once a good digital signal from Midhurst is now virtually so poor on even a test aerial that the guy could hardly read it!
There have been no building works in the local area, the leaves have gone from the trees, and I despair of gaining any improvement without a 50' mast!
Suggestions on a post card please, or an admission by the BBC as to what has happened at Midhurst
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GD's: mapG's Freeview map terrainG's terrain plot wavesG's frequency data G's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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MikeB9:05 PM
GD: look at your signal path - your 28km from the transmitter, with a clear line of sight. If your signal is rubbish, what about your neighbours? If their's is fine, then it sounds like your system, although wouldn't the specialist have checked it?
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Friday, 8 January 2016
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David Talks8:16 PM
I have done some tests and I don't think this is a matter for this forum. This is why. When I record BBC4 after 7pm and the DVD Recorder is tuned to a default channel beforehand which is different from BBC 4, no problem. When the DVD is tuned to BBC 4 by default , the fault occurs. Also, even if it's tuned to a different channel beforehand and then I record BBC 4 from 7 pm, same fault. It's a fault with the BBC's transmission or my DVD Recorder such that it refuses to receive the program but still carries on receiving the info screen . The reason it's only just happened is probably when I interrupted a recording on BBC 4 a few days before and then my DVD does NOT return to the default channel but stays on BBC 4.
I will pursue the fault on another forum as it's not a transmitter fault as such , I think. It's more fundamental than that. I thought I'd close the thread by reporting this anyway.
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MikeB11:42 PM
David Talks: Check what transmitter its trying to record from. My Sony PVR used to do something similar - the tuner is really sensitive and it would pull in BBC1 (which is what we were trying to record), but from a transmitter far further away. The strength was just enough to fool the PVR to try to record, but not enough to actually record something. I finally worked out the problem, and I killed the signal stength a bit with an attentuator, and after a couple of attempts, it stopped. I think David Lindsay had a similar problem with his Sony PVR.
So check the signal strength generally, and certainly see what it was actually try to record. If you put in your postcode to the site, we can see what the transmitters in your area are like, and see if its something else. Also have a look in the 800's, because thats what its might be trying to record.
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Saturday, 9 January 2016
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David Talks11:16 AM
I'm in Camelsdale which is a repeater off the Midhurst transmitter to cover this valley. We get a reduced MUX and it's vertically polarised, so no chance of picking up other signals.
Anyway, the DVD is trying to record BBC4 and succeeding in picking up the info screen at 7 pm that says "BBC4 starts at 7 pm". But thereafter it continues to record that info screen and not the programme. It will, however, record the sound and occasionally it will pick up part of the video as a strip obscured by part of the info screen. If, as the screen says, you tune away and back again, it sorts itself out. But by the nature of video recording, you aren't there to read that or respond! If I try to record later, starting from another channel, it's fine, but not a) starting from the DVD tuned to BBC4 or b) staring at 7 pm. For some reason, the BBC transmit a programme on the guide called "this is BBC4" up to 18:58 and another one 2 minutes long to bring us up to 19:00. I don't know why this is but recording or omitting the 2 minutes makes no difference.
I see this as a fault to do with what seems to me to be a fundamental difference in the type of transmission data stream that provides the info screen and the main programme that somehow is not correctly sent to or correctly interpreted by the DVD. Hence, I think this is for another forum.
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Sunday, 27 March 2016
Transmitter engineering
10:31 PM
10:31 PM
MIDHURST transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Weak Signal from 20:25 today to 20:33 today. [BBC]
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Monday, 28 March 2016
Transmitter engineering
4:32 AM
4:32 AM
MIDHURST transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Weak Signal from 20:25 yesterday to 20:33 yesterday, BBC Digital TV Weak Signal from 01:07 today to 01:22 today, BBC Digital TV Very Weak Signal from 00:53 today to 00:58 today. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
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7:31 AM
MIDHURST transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Weak Signal from 20:25 yesterday to 20:33 yesterday, BBC Digital TV Weak Signal from 01:07 today to 01:22 today, BBC Digital TV Very Weak Signal from 00:53 today to 00:58 today, BBC Digital TV Weak Signal from 05:01 today to 06:08 [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
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10:32 AM
MIDHURST transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Weak Signal from 05:01 today to 06:08 today, BBC Digital TV Weak Signal from 01:07 today to 01:22 today, BBC Digital TV Very Weak Signal from 00:53 today to 00:58 today, BBC Digital TV Weak Signal from 20:25 yesterday to 20:33 yes [BBC]
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