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, 8 March 2012
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jay5:11 PM
Brighton
Dave: what does 60- and 61+ mean! can't find any reference anywhere
Thanks.
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jay's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
WHITEHAWK HILL transmitter - Freeview - No problems - BBC Digital TV (Four, Cbeebies, Parliament, 3... Off Air; DSO related from 00:12 yesterday to 03:09 yesterday Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 00:15 yesterday to 03:13 yesterday [BBC]
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WHITEHAWK HILL transmitter - Freeview - No problems - BBC Digital TV (Four, Cbeebies, Parliament, 3... Off Air; DSO related from 00:12 yesterday to 03:09 yesterday Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 00:15 yesterday to 03:13 yesterday [BBC]
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Richard Davis5:51 PM
Jay -
The reason for the duplicate channels (principally BBC4, BBC Parliament, Cbeebies, and some BBC radio channels) is that the new, improved BBC A MPX which has now started on Ch 60 is now carying these as well as BBC1, BBC2, etc., whereas its prececessor, the lower capacity Multiplex 1, didn't. However, all these services are also still on Multiplex B, which doesn't change until the 21st, so when your RX scans the band it'll find each of these programmes twice! It took me a while to figure this out yesterday, since my first thought was that I was getting a signal from Patcham - it's only about a mile away with a line-of-sight path, although my aerial is firmly pointing at Whitehawk, and I can get a weak analogue signal from it. Anyway, the problem with finding the programmes twice should disappear on the 21st when all the multiplexes switch to their final configuration - in the meantime, it shoudn't matter which of the two versions you use.
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jay6:15 PM
Brighton
Hi
Thanks.. what a stupid system.. Getting no signal on BBC3 and BBC4 rather than the normal red screen.. hopefully they will come back on at 7pm.
Brian: why is engineering reports posting about yesterday.. BBC/DigitalUK said switch over was all good, so why do they need to do more works!
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jay's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
jay: The report is just showing the time the transmitter was off, ie from 00:12 to 03:13.
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jb38: jb38 I was just stating the obvious maybe but it may be of some use perhaps...
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Dave's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
jay take it easy, just wait a bit longer until March 21st and you will have a 100% full power and reliable digital service I am sure
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Dave's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Dave: is BBCA being transmitted on full power now (after part one of the switchover)? Or will that happen at part two?
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jb3811:52 PM
Simon: The BBC mux is now on full power operation (4Kw) as will be the other five from March 21st.
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