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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, England) mast?
Whitehawk Hill transmitter - Whitehawk Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 16/09/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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, 22 March 2012
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jb3810:43 AM
spencer: You are indicated as being well outside of the area that Whitehawk Hill ( @ 14mls / 145 degrees) is intended to serve, this irrespective of what size of aerial might be installed, however Midhurst (@ 18mls / 274 degrees) is indicated on the predictor as giving excellent coverage at distances even further to the East than your own location, and so this would be appear as a much better bet for a good "full service" signal, that is unless you are aware of any local obstructions that exist that could block it, as predictors do not always take that type of situation into account.
Midhursts channels being: 55 - 61 - 58HD - 62 - 62 - 50 and although its worth you trying a manual tune on say its BBC mux, (55) with the angle your aerial is sitting at (about 30 degrees from its dead spot) its doubtful if you would pick anything up.
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jb3810:46 AM
spencer: Just to add, that whats been said is based on the predictions indicated using the code provided.
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Richard Davis10:52 AM
Like Martin David, my TV, which is a Philips 32PFL5605H/05, doesn't seem to be able to find the HD channels although everything else is fine, and it can display HD when fed from a Humax Foxsat box. The TV's manual is not very well written and hence is rather confusing, but it does give the impression that I should be able to get HD from the built in tuner. Does anyone else know different?
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Robert11:16 AM
Hove
Dave: Thanks for your advice on the second stage of retuning, and how to avoid picking up the Rowridge signal. Mission accomplished.
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Robert's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jb3811:33 AM
Richard Davis: The Philips 5605 does NOT have a DVB-T2 tuner fitted (only DVB-T) and so is only an HD ready set, meaning that it is capable of showing an HD image but only if fed into it from an external source via one of its HDMI sockets.
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spencer5:35 PM
Horsham
I have no idea why anyone thinks I should try picking up Midhurst. Whitehawk hill is a mere 2 miles away, and according to Digital UK my postcode BN1 8RE should get a good service from Whitehawk Hill.
A 4KW mast 2 miles away? Got to be romping in?
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spencer's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jay6:44 PM
Brighton
anyone else getting itv2 in letterbox format during adverts!
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jay's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Richard Davis7:03 PM
jb38 - Thanks for confirming my fears about the Philips 5605. Oh well, I'm no worse off than I was before - I can still get HD via the Humax box, and the Philips displays it well as you said. By the way, is there a web site where you can find out which TVs have HD tuners?
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Peter Smith7:29 PM
Richard Davis - try: freesat HD TV - freesat (BN25WH)
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jb388:08 PM
spencer: The "Digital UK trade view" box on the right hand side of your posting continually indicates that you have entered RH138DF as being your location and everything said was based on that, Horsham also appearing at the right hand side of the time the posting was made.
I did though have a suspicion that something wasn't quite right and thats why I added the qualification to the original posting.
Have a look at the "for an enhanced Freeview reception prediction" box at the very top right hand side of this page to make sure nothing has been entered into the box, as the code referred to was also on your 5.35pm posting.
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