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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Thursday, 1 October 2020
Hello Chris
Thank you for your advice and information. At the moment everything seems fine. We didn't re-tune thank goodness. If there any further "possible service interruptions" I will not re-tune. Many thanks.
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Friday, 2 October 2020
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Chris.SE1:19 AM
Clare McNeil:
No problem. I hope Shona wardrop: has also seen my reply.
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Sunday, 29 November 2020
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Alan H6:56 PM
Hi there, it would appear that the transmitter broadcast information above for Whitehawk Hill has changed a while ago and hasn't been updated.
Having recently moved and retuned here is the latest signal information (29th Nov2020):-
BBCA C48 (690.0MHz) for BBC1, BBC2, BBC4 etc
D3+4 C35 (586.0MHz) for ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, ITV2 etc
BBCB C36 (594.0MHz) for BBCHD, ITVHD, Channel4 HD, Channel5 HD, etc
SDN C32 (562.0MHz) for Horror, Drama, Quest, ITV2+1, ITV3+1, etc
ArqA C34 (578.0MHz) for Dave, Really, Pick, Challenge etc
ArqB C33 (570.0 MHz) For Yesterday, Sony Movies, CBS Drama, Talking Pictures, etc
LBN C48 (626.0MHz) For Local Latest etc.
Hope this helps, I cleared my TV and retuned each one manually.
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Monday, 30 November 2020
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Chris.SE2:54 AM
Alan H:
As you say the Local Brighton mux L-BTN is on C40. The site owner hasn't had time to do all the updates resulting from the 700MHz clearance, and the regular posters here periodically make a post with the updated listings. Thanks for yours, my last one for Whitehawk Hill was on the 25th July on p91.
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Sunday, 21 February 2021
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Pete4:22 PM
Hove
I am in BN3 2WF on Hove Seafront and our BBC reception is amazing but we get some break up on ITV and C4. Any particular reason why that might happen? We are pointed at Whitehawk.
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Pete's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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StevensOnln15:28 PM
Pete: There are a couple of strong possibilities here, taking a look at the signal strength and quality readings on ITV and C4 will help point us in the right direction. The Whitehawk Hill transmitter is only 4km away and should give a strong signal at your location, perhaps too strong if your TV has a sensitive tuner. If the signal strength and quality readings on ITV & C4 are high then it's possible that the tuner is being deafened by too much signal. Do you have a booster or amplifier or any sort in your aerial system or behind your TV?
The other distinct possibility is that your TV may have tuned some channels from the Newhaven transmitter, which is 15km away in almost the same direction from you as Whitehawk Hill, but is predicted to provide a much weaker signal. This can be resolved by manually tuning your TV to the PSB2 multiplex (which carries ITV & C4) from Whitehawk Hill on UHF channel 35.
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Chris.SE11:04 PM
All:
For the record -
Whitehawk Hill's channels are now PSB1/BBCA C48, PSB2/D3&4 C35, PSB3/BBCB HD C36, COM4/SDN C32, COM5/ARQA C34, COM6/ARQB C33, LOCAL MUX/L-BTN C40.
If you hover on each of the aforementioned channel numbers, it'll give you the frequency if they aren't known/obvious to you.
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Thursday, 18 March 2021
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Frank Leggett9:06 AM
This frequency list is out of date.
Currently we have signals on Channels 32 - 36 and on Channel 40
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Chris.SE2:18 PM
Frank Leggett:
As has been mentioned many times around ukfree.tv and for this transmitter on the previous page p92, the site owner has not been able to find time to do all the updates from the 700MHz clearance program as well as correct some errors.
The correct current UHF channels for Whitehawk Hill are in the post Immediately before yours!
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