Full Freeview on the Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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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, 15 November 2019
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Chris.SE12:58 AM
K Whitnell :
There is Planned Engineering at Whitehawk Hill this week with "Possible weak signal".
So if you don't live that close to the transmitter, you may lose signal altogether until the power is put back up again.
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Tuesday, 24 December 2019
MikeP
10:35 PM
10:35 PM
Robbles:
The owner of this website is unable to update any of the channel usage listings at this time.
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Wednesday, 25 December 2019
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Chris.SE12:38 PM
Robbles:
See my posts on p187 here. However if you want to check your own coverage visit Freeview | All your favourite TV shows, all in one place and all for free as the DigitalUK site has now been merged into the Freeview site.
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Friday, 3 January 2020
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Dollie12:59 PM
Why is my tv signal picking up two transmitters, whitehawk and hastings? I am using a communal ariel.
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Chris.SE1:14 PM
Dollie:
Most likely due to recent weather conditions, high pressure coupled with Temperature Inversion which makes signals travel further than normal How clear skies and fine weather can affect your TV reception | Help receiving TV and radio
If you haven't got all your correct channels back to normal, try a retune.
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Sunday, 26 January 2020
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Brian Thomson 7:02 PM
No BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, CHANNEL 4 and CHANNEL 5 HD signal at 18:45 on 26 January 2020. Both television and BT YouView box affected, signal strength and signal quality show 0%. On SD signal quality and strength at about 96%.
This has occurred several times in the near past and usually the signal reappears. However, I do not have any dates recorded. Are there reasons for the loss of HD signal?
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Chris.SE9:40 PM
Brian Thomson :
The BBC have no reports of any problems with the BBCB HD multiplex in the last 5 days, nor this evening so far.
This certainly is odd if you are not noticing any loss of other channels. I take it you've not had loss of ITV/Ch.4 channels or any on the COM multiplexes at the same time?
You say "usually the signal reappears" - how long is it missing for?
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Tuesday, 28 January 2020
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John3:59 PM
Chris.SE: Re Rowridge COM 5 CH 22 Horz has been either low / no power for many days, yet vertical polarisation strengh in Worthing has been 100%
I have both H and V aerials installed so I can switch between the two during time of co-channel interference.
As there's no engineering reports of problems has anyone got any ideas.
Many thanks John.
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Chris.SE10:38 PM
John:
Hi John, see reply on Rowridge Tx page.
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