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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Friday, 29 September 2017
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Neil9:20 AM
Brighton
If the work isn't being done overnight why have I had very few channels for nearly 24 hours solid? No BBC and many others were missing all night and now into the following day. From memory I have around 6-8 working channels as of 09:17 on 29th
Nothing was wrong until Thurs 28th
BN1 6HA
thanks
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Neil's: mapN's Freeview map terrainN's terrain plot wavesN's frequency data N's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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StevensOnln111:07 AM
Neil: Your TV may have attempted an automatic retune whilst the transmitter was off, causing it to loose channels. Check that you don't have any loose or damaged cables or connections behind your TV, then check with a neighbour that their Freeview is working. Then try a manual tune on C60 from the TV's menu, which should restore your BBC channels. If that works, a full retune should restore all of your channels, otherwise further investigation is needed.
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Sunday, 1 October 2017
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Annette Routledge2:51 PM
I live in the centre of Brighton and have no signal, I use an indoor aerial. For a few hours each day recently I have had no tv. How can I find out when this will be fixed and what times to expect it to go off. Is this temporary?
Thank you,
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MikeB5:39 PM
Annette Routledge: You can check at the top of the page if there is engineering work (there has been for the past couple of days), but to be honest, if your using an indoor aerial and your often getting a rubbish signal, that because your using an indoor aerial - they just are not very good.
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Wednesday, 29 November 2017
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s dawkins4:45 PM
for the past 5 weeks every afternoon from 4pm 90 0f the92 available tv channels become unwatchable due to deteriation of signal quality from good to poor. This lasts until 7 - 7.30pm when things return to normal. At all other times reception is great so no problem with aerial or equipement. Can u offer any explanation?
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StevensOnln15:00 PM
s dawkins: If its happening at the same time every day, a likely cause would be electrical interference from a nearby device containing an electric motor which operates on a timer, such as a central heating pump.
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MikeP
5:40 PM
5:40 PM
S Dawkins:
It is also worth contacting your immediate neighbours to check if their Freeview reception is also being affected.
I once had a customer whose colour TV suffered terrible reception between 7 and 8.30 PM every day. It was due to a piece of medical equipment used at that time.
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Dave7:23 PM
I believe Whitehawk Hill is now dual radiating all 6 mux's on other frequencies in the 30's also ?
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StevensOnln111:13 PM
Dave: According to Digital UK's checker, the 3 PSB muxes are being dual radiated on UHF 32/35/36 on a separate radiation pattern but not COM4/5/6 or the local mux. COM4/5/6 are due to move to their new allocations on 14th March 2018 with the duplicated PSB1 moving to 48 at the same time, however the main PSB1/2/3 and the local mux will move to their final allocations in late 2019.
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Sunday, 3 December 2017
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Dave10:21 PM
Thanks a lot for the info, how involved all this is, I am just wondering if I ever have a chance of receiving Latest tv here in Patcham
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