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, 21 September 2011
Mikescki: The website says "Over the next week Whitehawk Hill main transmitter: TV (analogue) Liable to interruption". It says it very clearly and lots of times.
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Richard James11:10 AM
Brighton
I am aware that you can't broadcast whilst you are off air.. but there isn't any reason they could do it say "30 mins" or so before they go off air!
As not everyone knows about the down time.. etc
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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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mikescki12:45 PM
Sorry to be a bit argumentative but I read it as "No problems".
If this is the way "forward" then I don't see it as very satisfactory.
We loose Analgue in a few weeks time - so we are told - and then have no back-up when the Digital goes missing.
However, my main point is that the top of the information page says - "No Current Reported Problems" - when it is quite clear that they are off air and had been for many hours! This banner headline should be linked to reality.
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mikescki: You don't "loose (sic) Analgue (sic) in a few weeks time", switchover is listed clearly at the top of the page:
Wednesday 21st March 2012
The current engineering work, which is replacing the transmitter arrays is in preparation for the digital switchover.
I don't know why the message at the top of the page has reverted to "no problems", I shall look into this.
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Engineering information is now showing at the top of the page.
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Engineering information is now showing at the top of the page again. Found the bug!
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Mikescki7:00 PM
Worthing
Hi Brian,
Thanks for fixing the banner.
Maybe by the end of the week the eng work will all be sorted.
I can see that the switch date on this site says March 2012. That is different from the various ads around the Worthing area which are saying October 2011 -- hence my confusion. Perhaps it is another transmitter which is going.
Also, my apologies for not running the text through spellchecker ...
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Mikescki: There are no switchovers in October 2011 - Switchover events September- December 2011 | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
Not sure why you would see such adverts around Worthing, switchover from Rowridge is also Wednesday 21st March 2012...
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Mikescki9:01 PM
Worthing
Hi Brian,
Next time I am there I will try and photograph one. I do remember that it has the little robot character on it.
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Heavenscentrose10:32 PM
Brighton
Yesterday, like everyone in Brighton, I found it difficult to view any channels. I managed to re-tune the TV, rearranged the order to what I wanted, which took an hour and then today I turned on the television to find that we had to re-tune again. I have done this but haven't re-numbered the channels to a logical order as it takes so much time.
It would be nice to have a definitive answer as to when the engineering work on the Whitehawk Hill transmitter will be completed so that we know when we can expect a proper service again.
Is there any guarantee that we will be able to receive all the channels we get now when the digital switchover takes place and how long can we expect disruption then?
I know that it's a very large operation, but it is very inconvenient when the service is so badly interrupted for so long.
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