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, 15 July 2020
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Chris.SE12:21 PM
Martin:
See my post on p89 Monday, 17 February 2020 at 10:58 AM Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, England) Full Freeview transmitter | free and easy , the site owner has not been able to keep up with all the 700MHz clearance changes.
Freeview have listed the transmitter for Planned Engineering this week, details of exactly when or for how long aren't provided.
The BBC have listed the transmitter as being off-air due to a fault and for essential engineering a couple of times yesterday and there could be a report later for today, I suspect they are getting delayed because of the covid-19 situation.
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Saturday, 25 July 2020
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Neil4:45 PM
For the past month or so one TV I have has been using incorrect channel numbers and I don't know how to get it to use correct numbers or if there is something wrong somewhere. I wiped the channels and did a retune which got the correct numbers but within 24 hours the incorrect numbers were back.
To add to the issue, I have 3 devices using the same aeriel but with only one showing incorrect numbers so to my mind it isn't the aeriel. The TV in the bedroom and a media centre PC with 4 tuners use correct numbers but the LG TV in the front room are showing as below:
ITV 800
CH4 805
CH5 811
ITV2 802
ITV3 801
E4 808
Film4 806
More4 807
ITV4 803
UHF CH 35 586000kHz Bandwidth 8MHz Signal Strength 100% Signal Quality 100%
looking on this site the channel numbers from CH35 shouldn't be 800 etc but with the number of times channels are moved, renumbered and the recent outage I'm wondering if this has anything to do with it
Thanks for any pointers
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Chris.SE6:00 PM
Neil:
Just to be clear, I'll post the information from the linked post that I referred to in my 12th July post -
"If you are going by the list at the top of the page, I'm afraid it's out of date, the site owner hasn't had time to do all the 700MHz clearance updates.
Whitehawk Hill's channels are now PSB1/BBCA C48, PSB2/D3&4 C35, PSB3/BBCB C36, COM4/SDN C32, COM5/ARQA C34, COM6/ARQB C33, LOCAL MUX/L-BTN C40.
If you click on each of the aforementioned channels, it'll give you the frequency if they aren't known/obvious to you.
It sounds like your LG needs to have it's memory cleared, I've encountered this sort of issue as well. Unplug the aerial from the TV and then do an automatic tune. This should clear all previous tuning as no channels should be found. Switch the set off for at least 10 minutes. Plug the aerial back in. When you switch on it shouldn't have any channels tuned.
Ideally carry out a manual tune on the UHF channels listed above.
Make sure that in >Settings >Programmes > Programme List Update (if your model has it) is set to OFF, or in Programme Tuning and Settings any thing that sets any Automatic update is turned off. (Where any such setting may be is model dependent).
This should stop it trying to retune if there is any loss of signal due to engineering or abnormal weather conditions.
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Sunday, 26 July 2020
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Neil8:41 AM
Thanks for your help Chris.
I had removed the aerial during one of the retunes but hadn't powered down the TV for 10 minutes, or checked the auto-update. I did both last night and the channels are back to their correct numbering. I'll keep an eye on things to see if the auto-update can go back on.
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Chris.SE1:16 PM
Neil:
To be quite frank, I would leave the auto-update off. The 700MHz Clearance has been completed in all but a couple of places in the North, so the only likely changes will be if some broadcasters decide to change the channels they provide on the COM multiplexes or move them between multiplexes etc. There's usually on-screen messages when that happens, if not a general retune one, a pop-up on the programme affected.
The trouble with auto-update is, you only want a loss of signal for a brief period and off it goes messing things up especially if occasionally signals from another "nearby" transmitter are receivable but not reliably!
You can also keep an eye on Service updates | Freeview which usually has any changes listed.
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Thursday, 1 October 2020
Complete tv blackout in Brighton marina . Seems widespread from comments on other sites, and follows weeks of dreadful and erratic signals blacking out various channels
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Hello, I wonder if you can help us please, we have no TV signal in the Hove area. Are there engineering works happening or is it due to the weather? Do we need to retune? Sorry I am not tech minded with any of this. Any help and information on whats going on and when we be able to watch TV again would be most appreciated. Many thanks.
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Hello I wonder if you can help us, we have no TV signal in the Hove area. Are there engineering works, do we need to re-tune? Sorry we are not tech minded at all with any of this. Any help and information regarding this would be most appreciated. Many thanks.
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Chris.SE3:24 PM
Clare McNeil:
Do NOT retune. The transmitter is currently listed for Planned Engineering with "Possible service interruptions".
If you have perchance retuned when you had no signal is will most likely have cleared the correct tuning and you'll have to repeat a retune when signals are restored.
Shona wardrop:
See comments above. Also the problems you have been noticing in recent days over the last couple of weeks have been most likely down to adverse weather conditions - There's been some "Tropospheric Ducting" see Effect of tropospheric ducting on Freeview | RTIS for a simplistic explanation.
It can be quite variable, come and go within seconds, minutes or hours. It doesn't necessarily affect all multiplexes at the same time or at all and not everyone will be affected, it will depend on location. At times it can wipe out your reception.
People in different parts of the UK and Europe have been experiencing problems. The conditions should currently have cleared.
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