Full Freeview on the Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, England) transmitter which serves 96,000 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 Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, 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 Whitehawk Hill 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, 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 Whitehawk Hill transmitter?
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 43km northeast (36°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.6%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 80km west (274°)
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 Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 16 Oct 2019 | ||||
| VHF | C/D E | E | E | C/D E T | W T | ||||
| C2 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C34 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C35 | C5waves | C5waves | D3+4 | ||||||
| C36 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C40 | _local | ||||||||
| C48 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C51tv_off | BBCB | ||||||||
| C53tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | D3+4 | |||||
| C54tv_off | LBN | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | ArqA | ||||||||
| C57tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | SDN | SDN | ||||
| C60tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C63 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
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 7 Mar 12 and 21 Mar 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 10kW | |
| Analogue 5 | (-3dB) 5kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-4dB) 4kW | |
| Mux B* | (-10dB) 1000W | |
| Mux 2*, Mux C*, Mux D*, LBN | (-14dB) 400W | |
| Mux 1*, Mux A* | (-17dB) 200W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Whitehawk Hill transmitter area
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Tuesday, 15 November 2011
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Mike2:28 PM
re Richie
Tuesday 11 October 2011
I have noticed that the signal level from Mux A (my ref channel 31 5USA) is lower than all the other Mux levels here in Lower Bevendean. This is most strange as Mux A is reported to be the most powerful in terms of power output!
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Wednesday, 16 November 2011
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Craig 7:24 PM
After over 4 yrs of faultless Freeview reception, I too have been having the same issues with Mux 1 (BBC1 BBC2 etc) in Sompting postcode BN15 and my father in Worthing postcode BN14.
It seems a lot of us are having the same issue, who did the engineering work, who can we contact?
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Friday, 18 November 2011
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Arnie10:03 AM
This morning DAB radio reception on three portables around the flat here on the seafront, is really poor, with signal errors showing double their normal levels. Iwonder if switchover engineering work at Whitehawk could be affecting DAB transmissions? I am guessing that the DAB aerials are on the same mast?
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Arnie: I can get a perfectly good DAB signal indoors from Whitehawk Hill this morning. There is no work going on at the transmitter at the moment.
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Arnie10:45 AM
Ok, thanks everyone. Maybe some scaffolding on a neighbouring building is the cause.
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Craig10:17 PM
Brain: Hi Brian, I think there is a slight misunderstanding.
There was apparently some engineering work on Whitehawk in October and there was a message saying there might be disruptions during it. That work is now long since over but a lot of us seem to be having problems with Mux1 since the engineering work. Prior to this engineering work all had been fine for a number of years.
Those of us having these post engineering work issues with Whitehawk are in Sompting, Worthing and Brighton so quite a wide area. Just therefore wondering who would have carried out the work in October on Whitehawk so we can contact them as it seems reception has been worse since the work was undertaken. Do you know who please? Thanks.
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Monday, 28 November 2011
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Michael Talbot9:35 PM
Clacton-on-sea
Seem to have lost channels 12 and 15 a couple of weeks ago. I have three TVONICS one each on three TV sets and they have all lost the signal. I have retuned one box but the channel numbers dissapeared completely, so I have not retuned the other two, but let them say 'No Signal' - the thing is I have received these signals without any problem for over a year - then suddenly they have no signal. WHY and whats the cure?
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Michael's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
Michael Talbot: Please see Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice for help.
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Thursday, 22 December 2011
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Elliott Manley9:28 PM
Alton
I would love to be able to receive FIP (a Radio France station) but my attempts to manually tune to it on Astra 1L 11494 H 22.000 have failed dismally. My TV tells me the signal is "poor" and fails to find any channels. I can get plenty of other channels from Astra 1L. Is there anything I can do (apart from keep listening online or moving to Brighton, where they can get it on FM)?
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Elliott's: mapE's Freeview map terrainE's terrain plot wavesE's frequency data E's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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