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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Thursday, 15 March 2012
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geoff10:16 AM
I'm near the top of West Hill, got line of sight to Whitehawk in the East, and a large aerial in the loft pointing in the right direction. Maybe picking up a reflection of Rowridge? I can't see a C24 xmitter to the East of me on the map...
Anyway, thanks Dave for the plug-back-in-half-way tip. I'll give it a try next week.
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Robert7:44 PM
Hove
I live in a top (third floor) flat and have used an indoor aerial (Philex SLX 2777OR) since 2010. The signal quality has always been excellent.
Since I've retuned on the 7th of March, all the channels still have near perfect signal quality, with the exception of the BBC TV and Radio channels, (CH 24) where the quality is adequate, but doesn't hit more than 5 on the 0-10 signal bar.
Some of the BBC channels have been duplicated and stored as Channels 800-814, and the signal quality for these is superb. One of the duplicated channels is BBC1, stored as Channel 814, and which receives BBC South East; whereas BBC1, stored as Channel 1, and with low signal quality, still transmits BBC South.
Will this problem be rectified with the second stage of retuning on the 21st?
Best regards.
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Robert's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Robert: The reason you have duplicated channels is because your receiver has picked up the new full power BBC services from Rowridge which are on C24.
Rowridge uses low channels/frequencies and Whitehawk high ones, so if you run the automatic tuning scan with the aerial unplugged for the first 50% it will miss out Rowridge and pick up Whitehawk.
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Friday, 16 March 2012
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jay2:44 PM
Brighton
This is because Rowridge is now H/V polarity.. and everyone whos has a wideband aerial pointing to Whitehawk hill will have issues!
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Monday, 19 March 2012
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martin6:37 PM
Brighton
please forgive me if this sounds stupid. how would i be able to tell if my aerial is wide band, we currently receive a perfect signal over free view but am slightly paranoid we won't get the HD channels (and yes we have the equipment to receive HDfreeview) any clues.
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martin: For Whitehawk Hill, all channels post-switchover are "in group", that is they are in Group C/D. This was the case before switchover, except for analogue Channel 5 which was on channel 35. So a wideband aerial is not necessary after switchover.
You will not pick up HD signals yet because they aren't being broadcast!
High definition services become available at the second stage of switchover, which for Whitehawk is this Wednesday.
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Graham8:46 PM
And now... after just starting to receive BBC channels, I have lost ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5.
What year is this, 1962?
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Mark Fletcher9:13 PM
Halifax
Martin.A group W wideband aerial will be tipped black,a group C/D aerial will be tipped green !
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Mark Fletcher9:14 PM
Halifax
Graham.You're 50 years too late !
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012
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martin6:25 PM
Brighton
dave, i know this please credit me with the intelegence that i had read the rest of the page.
my comment was a pondering on if there was anyway to tell (without climbing on my roof) if i would have any issues tomorrow, but i guess i will wait and see.
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