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 15/04/2024 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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Tuesday, 27 March 2018
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Peter Simpson10:37 AM
Joe B: thanks Joe, sorry you've got the same problem. I heard from Panasonic support yesterday that they are aware of the problem and that I should wait a while for the "transmission to stabilise". Apparently Panasonic recorders are prone to this and its happened before on some transmitters sending COM7 and COM8.
Hopefully it will be fixed soon, I'll also post when I find it's working again. Regards Peter
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Wednesday, 28 March 2018
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Charles7:09 AM
Horsham
I live in rh13 9xz with aerial pointed to Midhurst.
Ever since the retune on 21st March I am not able to watch any channels on the ArqB mux but other channels
are fine.
My aerial appears to be Wideband with the black bung at the rear.
Any suggestions?
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StevensOnln112:50 PM
Charles: Does your TV have a manual tuning function? If it does, try manual tuning on UHF channel 33.
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Charles11:02 PM
Horsham
StevensOnln1: I have tried that but no difference. All other channels are fine and another TV in the house has exactly the same problem. Any chance it could be the aerial at fault? Also, why to the SDN,ArqA and ArqB operate at 10kW and the other muxes at 20kW?
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StevensOnln111:35 PM
Charles: Is the other TV connected to the same aerial? The PSB multiplexes are often broadcast at higher power because they need to provide coverage to as many viewers as possible (including some relay stations which can be very far away from their parent transmitter) so a higher power level is required in order to provide a sufficient signal strength for reception on the fringes of the transmitter's coverage area. The commercial broadcasters are happy to reach the vast majority of viewers at a lower power level and would not find it worthwhile to broadcast at a higher power level when they would only gain a relatively low number of additional viewers.
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Thursday, 29 March 2018
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Charles6:55 AM
Horsham
StevensOnln1: thanks for the explanation regarding power output.
Both Tv's are on the same aerial. Forgot to mention that when the tv''s auto scan for channels on ch33 they more often than not pickup the channels but either the picture is breaking up badly or the signal is too week to display a picture.
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MikeB10:10 AM
Charles: Your just 25km from Midhurst - if anything, the power levels should be too high.
Check you actually tuned to Midhurst and signal levels - I notice that Guildford is on almost the same bearing, and its frequencies are lower - its possible you've tuned into that instead.
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Charles3:53 PM
Horsham
MikeB: I am definitely tuned into Midhurst as Guildford uses different channel numbers.
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Friday, 30 March 2018
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andy4:10 PM
I have no signal on any of my TV's in the house.. this has only happened in the last couple of days and I have tried retuning the TV's but there is no signal at all? HELP!!
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andy5:51 PM
Liss
Oh and my postcode is GU33 7FD
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