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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Wednesday, 7 March 2012
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jay2:06 AM
Brighton
what a mess.. now getting psb1 from rowridge (24) and whitehawk hill..
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Neal Rogers2:36 AM
Jay - have some patience. It isn't scheduled to be finished until 6am.
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jay2:45 AM
Brighton
its automatic on PC and its because rowridge is now both H/V :)
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jay5:58 AM
Brighton
Okay as I stated earlier if you are on whitehawk hill and had a wideband aerial (to get analogue 5) you will now get 147 channels as you will pick up dupes from rowridge.
This was well thought out..
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Uh oh. I have just retuned (and tried manual retuning) a modern digital TV in central brighton - aerial on the top of a tall block of flats - and have a very weak reception of BBC One and Two on freeview. Everything else is as it should be.
Any suggestions?
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KMJ,Derby7:10 PM
Simon: Are you sure that the channels tuned in are from Whitehawk Hill on C60-, rather than Rowridge on C24 or Brighton Central on C41? It is possible that the gain on the distribution equipment might need turning down if you find that the correct frequency (C60-) is giving the appearance of weak signal. What is the signal quality like on the problem mux?
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Chris8:19 PM
I'm getting breakup on bbc1 and bbc2. Pretty sure am pointing to whitehawk c60. Suspect signal is now too strong and will have to buy an attenuator.
Bn23as. Arial on roof no booster.
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so much want waterloo road8:26 PM
Brighton
Hello it is March 7th and I've just returned home (Hollingbury) to no TV. Found this extremely helpful site, thank you all, at least I know what is going on (off) .. the thing is my remote isn't working and so am relying on the knobs on the TV - how do I retune/scan/do all the things that might retrieve a signal please?
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Simon
8:38 PM
8:38 PM
@KMJ,Derby
Thanks for your response.
I can confirm that the problem is only with the BBCA mux. I have all the channels on this mux but they are totally unwatchable.
The "auto tune" function picks up BBCA on C60- (so Whitehawk hill). I'm physically closest to Brighton Central but cannot tune into anything on C41 (or C24 for that matter).
Pre 7-March I used a small amplifier in-house between the flat and the TV. The problem I am now having is the same whether or not I use the amplifier.
Signal Quality: 65%
Signal Strength: varies but always >90%
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