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, 31 March 2012
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Richard Davis11:04 AM
Simon: Glad to hear that you've made progress with your problem. Don't worry about the 4kW of digital (or a total of 24kW if you add all the six multiplexes together)- the old analogue service had four channels of 10kW plus one of 5kW (Ch 5), giving a total of 45kW, so you're being subjected to less RF energy now than you were before!
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Monday, 2 April 2012
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A12:48 PM
Brighton
What does ArqB mean? I know that it is COM6.
The transmission power is 4000W. Is this constant or does it drop, say in the early hours of the morning?
Thanks
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A's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
A: "ArqB" is an abbreviation for "Arqiva B" which is the name of COM6 multiplex. Arqiva is the name of the company that owns and runs all of the transmitters. It has two multiplexes, hence the A and B suffixes.
For a full list of services by multiplex, see DMOL Post-DSO Multiplex Channel Allocations
The transmission power does not vary by time. The days of God Save the Queen being played and then the transmitter being taken off of the air are gone.
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Thursday, 5 April 2012
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geoff11:42 AM
Note the FECs listed for COM4 and COM5 at the top of the page appear to differ from reality.
I can't tune these multiplexes with FEC 2/3, I can with 3/4.
I'm 2.4Km WNW of Whitehawk Hill with clear line of sight using a portable aerial, so it seems likely I'm getting the right transmitter.
Linux users may find the following useful for the scan utility from dvb-apps.
user@machine:~$ cat /usr/share/dvb/dvb-t/uk-WhitehawkHill-post-DSO
# UK, Whitehawk Hill
# Hand-edited 20120405 g77
# T freq bw fec_hi fec_lo mod transmission-mode guard-interval hierarchy
# PSB1
T 785800000 8MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/32 NONE
# PSB2
T 730000000 8MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/32 NONE
# PSB3 (HD untested)
# T 714000000 8MHz 2/3 NONE QAM256 8k 1/32 NONE
# COM4 note FEC 3/4
T 762000000 8MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 8k 1/32 NONE
# COM5 note FEC 3/4
T 754000000 8MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 8k 1/32 NONE
# COM6
T 690000000 8MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 8k 1/32 NONE
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Friday, 6 April 2012
I'm not sure that we ever really worked out what was going on with the signal in my block of flats.
It seemed that the signal I was getting in the ground floor flat was stronger than the signal in some of the top floor flats (which was of good quality too). This suggests to me that there is a further amplifier somewhere in the distribution system and that it was this that was being overloaded and distorting the signal.
The solution has been to disconnect the main distribution amplifier so that it is an unamplified signal being distributed around the building (and then presumably boosted at some point by the secret second amplifier).
But there we go. A simple resolution in the end. Disconnect the amp.
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Simon's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 8 April 2012
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David Hitchin8:51 AM
For a few days after the second switchover the BBC channels were working OK, then they became intermittent and now they are not received at all in Seaford. As they worked at first, why doen't they work now?
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Tuesday, 10 April 2012
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David Hitchin6:51 AM
Seaford
Sunday evening the BBC channels were back again in Seaford - just that evening, so perhaps it is weather-dependent.
Oddly enough I get good reception of channels 48 and 53 (about 75% on the rather arbitrary signal level on my TV) with good to very good signal quality. The signal strength shown on channel 51 is absolutely zero most of the time.
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David's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 12 April 2012
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Bert3:06 AM
I can get Channel 48 from Whitehawk Hill which is a little surprisng since my aerial points to another transmitter.
The signal is always weak, but it is much better in the early hours of the morning.
Is this due to less traffic on the roads(reduced reflections), or due to atmospheric phenomena.
As a matter of interest, can signals on a tv be boosted by the addition of a tv software addition?
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Saturday, 14 April 2012
Bert: No, you can't boost a signal using "a tv software addition".
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