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 - Midhurst transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 16/09/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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 June 2016
Transmitter engineering
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MIDHURST transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Weak Signal from 14:32 today. [BBC]
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Thursday, 30 June 2016
Transmitter engineering
5:32 AM
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MIDHURST transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Weak Signal from 14:32 yesterday to 23:40 yesterday. [BBC]
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Friday, 1 July 2016
Transmitter engineering
5:31 AM
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MIDHURST transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Weak Signal from 14:32 on 29 Jun to 23:40 on 29 Jun. [BBC]
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Saturday, 16 July 2016
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Paul Hankinson9:27 PM
Littlehampton
BN16 4HF
Channels just disappear. Sometimes fine, but then go. Particularly noticeable when trying to watch BBC Breakfast. Very rarely get it, but can ofter watch BBC later in the day. It is almost as though BBCA and BBCB have had the power reduced overnight, and then turned back up sometime after 07:00.
Sometimes do not get any channels that can be watched without breakup, other times channels are fine. On a couple of occasions, when a channel has gone, I have checked the reported signal strength and it is down to 30% with quality of 100%, other times quality of 60%.
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Paul's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Paul Hankinson9:30 PM
Littlehampton
BN16 4HF
further to earlier email. Forgot to mention location of aerial. It is on a post rising from high on the side wall of the house.
Real problems started a couple of years ago and we have had to go to freesat for main tv but wish to retain freeview for non-freesat channels.
Basically, it works sometimes, but not all times.
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Paul's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Wednesday, 3 August 2016
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Charles12:07 AM
Horsham
With the Midhurst Transmitter and where I receive from why do COM4, COM5 and COM6 mux's operate at a lower wattage output compared to the other mux's? We can receive all channels just fine but when it is raining we can loose channels on the lower output and sometimes the HD mux as well.
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Charles's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 4 August 2016
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Tracey Savage10:24 AM
No TV for a couple of days now, live in Edenbridge but tv is linked to crystal Palace transmitter.
Internet says no problems but there surely is a big problem. Thought it was just mine, now just found out from a neighbor it's there as well.
Please can someone help.
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StevensOnln110:40 AM
Tracey Savage: Crystal Palace broadcasts TV to the whole of London and various areas beyond. If there was a problem with the transmitter it would be national news. Are you and your neighbour using a shared communal aerial system such as are often found in blocks of flats? If that is the case you need to ask whoever is responsible for managing your building to get the aerial system checked.
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Richard Cooper12:03 PM
Tracey Savage: Hi, Tracey. In Edenbridge you are expected to receive a good signal from the Crystal Palace transmitter. Since there are no currently reported problems on the Crystal Palace transmitter, the tv reception installation in your home must have developed a fault. First of all, you need to check that the recent wind hasn't blown your aerial round so that it is no longer pointing towards Crystal Palace. Crystal Palace is North-North-West of Edenbridge, so that's the direction your aerial should be pointing in. Compare yours to neighbours' and you'll see what I mean. If the aerial needs re-pointing, you may prefer someone else to get up on to the roof or the chimney pot to do it for you - it's up to you. Once your aerial is pointing the right way, you need to check the condition of the aerial cable to make sure no water has seeped into it, for example. You also need to check all aerial lead connections: sometimes a piece of copper wire from an aerial lead can 'fray out' from where it's supposed to be bunched up, causing a short circuit which stops or hinders the signal from reaching your t.v. or set-top box. Check too that all aerial cabling is firmly connected to the aerial plug and/or socket connectors.Then disconnect your aerial lead from your tv or set-top box and carry out a 'first-time installation' Your tv or set-top box will display a message after a couple of minutes, saying, "no channels found". This is correct because the aerial was deliberately disconnected. This has given your tv or set-top box the opportunity to 'forget' its previous set-up and also 'forget' any corrupted data' that had been stored in it. Then re-connect your aerial lead and do another 'first-time' installation. This time, all receivable channels should be listed. Try all of this and you'll have all of your tv channels back again. Richard, Norwich.
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Tuesday, 11 October 2016
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John4:49 PM
How can you tell from the map whether a particular transmitter covers a town or not as the green and cyan overlays totally obscure the map underneath!
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