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, 25 April 2012
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Peeej12:21 PM
Hove
I get exactly the same all fine on any other channels but all BBC ones are terrible, one seond a very good signal next none. All was fine before the swic over so I am condfused.
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Peeej's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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EnDee9:25 PM
Brighton
Dear Peej
I forgot to say that the picture is actually fine on that Multiplex (the BBC group of programmes) when we watch via our hard disk recorder, ie when the picure is decoded by the recorder before its gets to the screen.
Why is that? ... anyone?
It's a pain to have to switch on the HD recorder to watch the TV.
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Peeej10:42 PM
Found my problem, it was being caused by my Wifi access point whih is near the telly, I can only guess that i must have been one the same band as the bbc mux.
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Friday, 27 April 2012
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EnDee1:12 PM
Brighton
Thanks Peej
That was the only thing we hadnt tried .. and it worked.
Just moved the WiFi Router (not the modem) about a meter from the TV.
This should be the first thing that anyone else tries if they are having trouble with BBC channels.
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EnDee's: mapE's Freeview map terrainE's terrain plot wavesE's frequency data E's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Jim D2:11 PM
Just wanted to say a big THANK YOU to this forum, Briantist, and whoever first wrote the tip about leaving the aerial disconnected until half way through an Auto Setup!
Had a very strange situation with my neighbour's newish JVC set, where BBC1 and some other channels were 100% OK, but BBC2 and ITV1 would disappear after a second or two of switching to them. Tried reducing the signal, but it didn't seem to be a too much / too little signal prob.
Did yet another retune, ths time with the aerial out until 50%, and lo and behold everything happy! (So presumbly the set was confused between Whitehawk and Rowridge.)
This wasn't needed with 6 or more other local sets/Freeview tuners.
How did we manage before the web...
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Friday, 25 May 2012
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mrs e simpson2:32 PM
Can you please advise.I live in bn114gu area and every evening half of my freeview stations vanish off screen.Is there something I need to do.
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Mrs Barnett3:51 PM
Sheffield
We receive all channels but need subtitles as my husband is hard of hearing. Subtitles on some digital channels (particularly ITV3) are spasmodic. We have a roof aerial. How can we solve this problem? Many thanks.
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Sunday, 27 May 2012
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lindsey6:08 PM
Help!! I live in Seaford and have Freeview built into my TV. I have retuned my TV several times and although I can pick up Freeview, I can't watch it as the picture is forever breaking up and then stops working saying weak or no signal.
Will this change once it's all been set up properly. just worried that after the digital switchover, I'll not be able to watch any TV!!
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Friday, 15 June 2012
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Martin10:34 AM
My TV picture is breaking up roughly every 30 minutes, ever since the digital switchover. I live at Fiveways my aerial has a clear view of the Whitehawk transmitter. I my signal is getting saturated. I believe if I but an aerial attenuator in it might help, can any one confirm if this is correct, and let me know what strength attenuator would be best
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Monday, 2 July 2012
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geoff12:11 PM
Martin, before you start changing hardware, please check that you're tuned to the channels that Whitehawk transmits, listed at the top of this page, eg BBC1 on C60 785.8MHz.
Your TV/PVR will have some way of displaying that, you need to find out how.
I'm 2Km west of Whitehawk, but I can still pick up a flaky signal from Rowridge despite my aerial pointing *away* from Rowridge, presumably some reflection of a tower block or similar.
You may find another set of stations in the 800 numbers on your receiver, which might be the C60 Whitehawk service. That's what happened to me.
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