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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Sunday, 7 October 2018
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Paul Hegan10:07 PM
Brighton
My postcode BN1 5BP (address 46B Withdean Rd)
I see to have 'lost' C51, picture pixelating. Strength 10 Quality 1
I have reset to factory condition and returned to no avail.
I am aware there are upcominging reallocation of frequencies.
I am not sure what aerial I have; it was installed about ten years ago.
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Paul's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 8 October 2018
MikeP
10:25 AM
10:25 AM
Paul Hegan:
With a signal strength of 10 you have too much signal and that will cause your reported problem, it needs to be between 60% and 85%. Fit an attenuator in the aerial feed behind the TV using an additional short flylead so that the weight of the attenuator does not 'hang' on the aerial input socket.
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Friday, 2 November 2018
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Mike1:03 PM
Started a scan from Ch.40 while testing some aerials and a pre-amp
I was unable to receive CH48 COM6 , where has it gone?
Regards,
Mike
Lower Bevendean
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StevensOnln13:17 PM
Mike: COM6 moved to UHF channel 33 several months ago.
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Saturday, 3 November 2018
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Mike H10:35 AM
StevensOnln1 thanks for your reply.
Clearly the Whitehawk Transmitter page is due an update as channel 48 is still mentioned.
Best regards,
Mike
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MikeP
10:51 AM
10:51 AM
MikeH:
The transmitter information on these pages has not been updated for several months as the only person can do the update is not available. Use the information provided by the Digital UK Coverage Checker instead. You can find that at Digital UK - Coverage checker
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Sunday, 16 December 2018
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Arnie8:54 AM
Brighton
The DAB signal seems to be intermittently dropping to zero with a lower than usual signal strength the remaining time. Rooftop 3 element aerial at BN2 8HX
Sunday 15/12/18 0700- present (0850)
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Arnie's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 18 December 2018
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richard 9:21 PM
Is there an issue with list above.. I have Cbs Justice on C48 (690.0MHz), yet TV see freq 570.00 mhz ??
anyone BN2 9
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Tuesday, 15 January 2019
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Steve Hampton5:05 PM
Wirral
When I last looked all Whitehawk Freeview channels were shown to be moving below Ch48 by December 2018.
Now I see BBC A is staying at Ch60, meaning a wideband aerial is required (for a while).
What is going on?
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StevensOnln15:23 PM
Steve Hampton: According to Digital UK, PSB1/BBCA is due to move to UHF channel 48 at Whitehawk Hill during the final quarter of this year. Various other multiplexes will also change frequency at the same time.
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