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, 20 September 2011
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Triode4:38 PM
Just checked Whitehawk Hill now........ALL digital and analog channel off air!!
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Richard James4:50 PM
Brighton
We get that annoying you are being switched over in March 2012.. so there no reason why they can't broadcast a "tv maybe subject to disruption" message
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Richard's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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JK5:08 PM
Brighton
Do I have to do anyhting like retuning my freeview box or is it just a problem with the transmitter in this area ? Is there a number or website to look at for up to date info ?
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JK's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Richard James5:19 PM
+ https://faq.external.bbc.…true (BN29ZH)
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JK5:26 PM
Brighton
Thanks .Do i Just have to be patient and wait for signal to return ? I cant see any time scale shown on that link you just sent me.
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JK's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Mike Dimmick5:39 PM
Richard James: You can't broadcast a message if you're not broadcasting the picture. The thing has to be OFF to change connections. The cables carry pretty high power levels.
Digital UK announced the works at
Digital UK - Planned Engineering Works , which is the extent to which anything is announced nowadays. Digital UK is primarily the broadcasters working together, so the news services essentially *had* the information, they just didn't bother to tell you.
The information suffixed by [BBC] comes from that BBC Reception Test page, and it reports *faults*. If the fault was caused by DSO work it says (DSO related) after the description of the fault. Any advance notices scraped from Digital UK's website are marked [DUK]. Both may be posted in the same message. 'Transmitter Engineering' is a completely automated service that scrapes these two websites and posts the results here for posterity.
It could be a bit smarter about detecting the words 'today', 'yesterday' and a date, and figuring out that nothing has actually changed.
The BBC fault system is based on both monitoring and on reports from viewers; at smaller sites, there is no direct monitoring.
JK: You don't need to retune - no configuration is being changed, I believe they are simply installing and testing the new transmitter equipment at ground level.
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Richard Davis6:25 PM
I drove into Brighton this morning, and it looked as if there was a crane on site (I couldn't get very close due to other comittments). This evening there seems to be a new aerial on the platform at the top of the mast - slightly longer than the Ch 5 ae, alongside and it a bit to the south. Again couldn't get close due to time committments. Possibly a temporary ae for the analogue services so they can replace the (old) main aerial?
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Richard Davis: I will have to pop over there tomorrow and take some pictures.
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Mikescki9:47 PM
Worthing
The BBC Channels were off air this morning and again when we came home this evening.
The Website says nothing wrong.
Come on someone take responsibility !!
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Mikescki's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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