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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Saturday, 10 March 2012
J
J Green2:53 AM
Will all the Muxes be at full power after the 21st, or will some be at lower power?
The new BBC mux is working well here but the low power muxes breakup if the weather is bad.
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J Green: As shown at the top of the page under "Comparison of analogue and digital signal levels" SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB are all at 4kW.
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J Green: According to Digital UK Tradeview, yes, all muxes from Whitehawk will be on the full final power on 21st March.
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Sunday, 11 March 2012
M
Miikescki9:45 AM
Worthing
Hi MO,
No one else seems to have answered so may I suggest that all you need to do is to reinitialise your freeview boxes?
We did ours and I think that the signal is better than before.
As it all finishes you will be given the choice of BBC South or BBC South East. We like the Southampton bias rather than the London so we chose "BBC South". Obviously the preference is yours.
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Miikescki's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Miikescki: Not all boxes present this choice of region.
Your suggestion is likely to lead to poor reception or perhaps bouts of poor reception. This is because on selecting "BBC South" you are opting to for your receiver to tune to the signal from Rowridge and when selecting "BBC South East" you are opting for Whitehawk Hill.
Those who have two aerials that are combined where one is pointing at Rowridge and one at Whitehawk can obviously choose and should not have issues ensuant.
However, where one has a single aerial that is, by its nature, directed at one particular transmitter, it is installed to receive from that transmitter. The results will be unpredictable when used to pick up signals from another direction.
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KMJ,Derby3:18 PM
Miikescki and Dave Lindsay: It is likely that viewers in Worthing are receiving BBC South from the Findon relay, rather than the weaker option from Rowridge. Findon is transmitting digital signals at 2kW, rather than the much lower power of 10W which would have only covered the old analogue service area. It could be that this was planned to become a regional correction transmitter for the area, following the change to BBC SE from Whitehawk Hill.
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Wednesday, 14 March 2012
C
clive7:45 PM
since 5pm tonight the signal reception has gone down from 63%, which is poor, to 42%. why?
i was told that the signal would be stronger as updates were made but appears to be worse.
any ideas what whitehawk are upto?
have to reboot freeview box every morning since 1st stage on the 7/3/12.
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Clive: It's probably the lift conditions that are making signals travel further than they normally would. See here:
What is the Inversion Effect and why does it effect my Freeview TV reception?
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We've had a report of French TV being received in Portsmouth and signals from Mendip in Somerset being picked up in Rayleigh.
I say "probably", it may be advisable to check that your receiver has tuned to Whitehawk and not Rowridge or one of the other transmitters in the area.
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geoff8:56 PM
Still receiving BBC1 on C24 498MHz, but a highly defective signal.
Finally found C60 listed in the 800s on a Humax 3100, signal quality 100%. Result.
Wouldn't have looked for C60 without reading this site, so thanks for the listings.
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Thursday, 15 March 2012
geoff: If you are picking up BBC A (BBC One, BBC Two etc) multiplex from Rowridge on C24, then you could well pick up the other higher power multiplexes when they come on air next week.
Fortunately Rowridge's services are at low frequencies and Whitehawk's at high ones, so just run the automatic tuning scan with the aerial unplugged up until 50% to avoid the possibility of picking up Rowridge.
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