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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Tuesday, 3 January 2012
J
John6:01 PM
Hassocks
John:
Service now restored.
Many thanks.
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John's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
C
Chris Booth6:02 PM
Alton area. Midhurst back up about a couple of minutes ago.
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J
james6:17 PM
still no freeveiw in chiddingfold but analog is back on apart from ch4. i see a post from the engineers saying there is a power failure and they are on route....... since 11.58 this morning?? and like chris1 says, no back on time ??
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Roy Wicking8:01 PM
Have lost all itv channel 4 and 5 programmes and ESPN through both my top up tv box and freeview tv. reception from Midhurst and appear to only have BBC
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Wednesday, 4 January 2012
J
james4:40 PM
is there still a fault at midhurst transmitter today ? GU84UD, chiddingfold.
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Thursday, 5 January 2012
P
P. Brown8:37 AM
Pulborough
we have no channel 3, 4, 5, on our freeview box, although we have 4+1 and 5+1. We have reset out box twice, still no joy.
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P.'s: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
P. Brown: There have been reports that the Midhurst Freeview transmitter was on low power on Tuesday and then it went off due to a power failure.
It is possible that the services are or were on low power and that that signal is not sufficient at your location.
You need to try manually tuning to Ch65 as that is the channel used for the missing services. Depending on the design of your receiver it might show you a signal strength when you go through to the manual tuning screen and go to Ch65. It might show that there is a weak signal there but that it isn't sufficient to produce a picture.
In future, you should refrain from running the automatic retuning scan in such circumstances. Only at the two stages of switchover (when frequencies/services will change) will you have to carry out the retune procedure. Checking the signal strength might have shown that there was a signal there, but that it was too weak to work.
Now you must retune in order to get the channels back and you can only do that once the signal returns to how it was before. You don't know that that has happened until you successfully retune. Had you not retuned then you would have needed to simply keep selecting one of the affected programme channels (i.e. number 3 for ITV1).
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Dave's: ...
Friday, 6 January 2012
T
Ted Penfold4:42 PM
Midhurst
Transmitter engineering: Midhurst
We have been without signal for over 24 hours. Could you tell me if there is a problem with the Midhurst transmitter?
When can we expect it to return?
I am bereft :o(
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Ted's: mapT's Freeview map terrainT's terrain plot wavesT's frequency data T's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 8 January 2012
J
james6:28 PM
whats happening with signal ?? its been terrible for about a week !! hardly any tv ......... :-/
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Thursday, 19 January 2012
I
Ian Matthews1:49 PM
I get analog pictures for channels BBCI BBC2 ITV1 channel 4 etc but no sound is it my receiver or is this due to the change over The picture and sound are perfect on freeview but I like watching the analog
Reply with explaination appreciated
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