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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Tuesday, 9 April 2024
Hi there,
How often should we re-cycle our TV receivers to make sure we have all the correct stations?
Bets regards,
Mike
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StevensOnln111:38 PM
Mike Startup: Do you mean retune? Many TVs will update their channel list automatically without needing to do anything. If yours doesn't, you would only need to retune if any new channels launch or any existing channel moves multiplex, which is down to contractual agreements between channels and multiplex operators, there is no regular day for changes.
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Chris.SE11:50 PM
Mike Startup:
I presume you mean "Retune". The general answer to which is infrequently !
As a general rule, the only things that change these days is when some of the smaller commercial operators change/remove/add channels on one of the three COM multiplexes - SDN, ArqA & ArqB.
If you receive from a Relay transmitter (Freeview Light) which only has the PSB multiplexes, these are unlikely to change. Whitehawk Hill has all 6 multiplexes and a Local multiplex (which you may or may not get depending on postcode).
See Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview for which TV channels are carried on which multiplex.
You should only need to retune when you see a pop-up message on one of these minor commercial channels telling you it's changed, or when there's been a new one added (see the aforementioned list).
Be careful about retuning if the transmitter is subject to Planned Engineering (which this one is at present - see top of page) and do NOT retune if channels you normally get say No Signal or are badly pixellated - this will often just clear your correct tuning - you cannot tune to signals that are not there or cannot be decoded.
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Sunday, 26 May 2024
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Emma10:12 AM
I live close to the sea. When the sea is calm we get multipath interference. A multiplex can disappear for a while. Eventually the tide ebbs and the picture returns. When the sea is rough the interfering path is scattered so does not interfere. I recently lost C4 HD in the middle of the Italian race. I usually try to use Broadband but C4 don't do parallel broadband streaming (the way the BBC do).
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Chris.SE2:49 PM
Emma:
If you lost C4 HD, then i would have expected you to have lost the other HD channels as they are carried on the same multiplex.
There was Planned Engineering listed earlier in the week and this might be the cause of your issue, but breaks are usually short.
If you are still having issues, please post back with a full postcode and ideally the Signal Strength and Quality figures you get for each of the multiplexes usually found in your TV tuning section.
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Monday, 9 September 2024
Clare McNeil
6:09 PM
6:09 PM
Hi I wonder if anyone can help. My dad has a TV not
a smart TV. He has lost all BBC Channels.
He re-tuned and now has lost the above channels.
Is it the case of the channels returning themselves
or should he try to re-tune. Many thanks
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Tuesday, 10 September 2024
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Chris.SE2:24 AM
Clare McNeil :
If you recall one of my previous posts to you when you'd lost channels before, I explained about manual tuning.
It sounds like your Dad made the mistake of retuning when he had no signal. If you were correctly tuned to start with then you do not retune when it says No signal or the pictures are badly pixellated, whether it's due to engineering, weather conditions or faults. You have to wait until signals return to normal.
You cannot tune to signals that aren't there or can't be decoded! The usua; resulty is to clear the correct tuning.
You may note from the post previous to yours, there's engineering taking place.
The only sensible way to deal with tuning when this is occurring is manual tuning.
(In the multiplex order) PSB1/BBCA, PSB2/D3&4, PSB3/BBCB HD, COM4/SDN, COM5/ARQA, COM6/ARQB.
Whitehawk Hill's UHF channels are C48, C35, C36, C32, C34, C33.
The LOCAL Multiples L-BTN is on C40.
As it's the BBC channels he's lost you need to tune UHF C48 only. If it's an HD set and those are also missing then they are C36.
You need to tell him that in future if it's just one group of channels with no signal just wait and check for engineering or faults. If all the other channels are ok, leave the set alone and don't retune if you were correctly tuned to start with.
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Clare McNeil
7:44 AM
7:44 AM
Hi Chris.SE
Thank you for your post. I have tried to re tune manually but it
wito won't let me. Shall I wait until engineering work is done
and then re tune. Many thanks.
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Clare McNeil
7:48 AM
7:48 AM
Hi Chris.SE
Thank you for your post. I have tried to manually re-tune
but it won't let me. Shall I wait until engineering work is
done then re-tune? Many thanks
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Clare McNeil
8:44 AM
8:44 AM
Hi Chris.SE
I have tried to manually retune but it only shows number 35
and it won't let tune to C48. I am sorry but very confused
what to do. Many thanks
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