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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, England) mast?
Whitehawk Hill transmitter - Whitehawk Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 22/04/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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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Saturday, 1 July 2023
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Chris.SE6:06 PM
Dave:
You don't say when you lost the HD channels.
I can't find any listing of current or recent faults.
As you can see from the post before yours, the transmitter was listed for Planned Engineering, although it is no longer, work may not have been completed and there may have been service interruptions.
There's also been some residual weather related Tropospheric Ducting in recent days which can affect reception because of interference being received from more distant transmitters in Europe or the UK - not all multiplexes are necessarily affected, but this isn't normally sustained for any lengthy periods,
If you retuned at all when you had no signal or badly pixellated pictures - this is never advised if you were correctly tuned initially, as it usually just clears the correct tuning, then you'd need to retune again when signals are normal. You may have to try several times as you won't known when that may be. I suggest you try a manual retune on UHF C36.
If you are still having problems, check with a near neighbour if they have the same issue. Check your aerial looks intact and your downlead isn't flapping in the wind, and all you coax plugs are inserted correctly. if the problem continues, post back with more detail about your aerial installation, amps/splitters etc and a full postcode so we can check predicted reception.
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Wednesday, 5 July 2023
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Emma Atkinson 11:01 AM
Whitehawk Hill BBC B HD multiplex (UHF Ch 36) sound delayed 0.5 second wrt vision. Fault started yesterday lunchtime ish. Fault manifested on a Sony and a Samsung TV. Problem affects all HD and SD channels on that multiplex. Other multiplexes from same Transmitter location are not similarly affected.
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Emma Atkinson 12:53 PM
Emma Atkinson : Whitehawk Hill BBC B HD multiplex was fixed at 13:51. Thank you engineers.
Sound and vision are now in synchronisation on all channels using this multiplex (SD & HD)
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Chris.SE1:03 PM
Emma Atkinson :
Hi Emma. The BBC are reporting a fault -
From 1:13pm on 5th Jul 2023 BBC B HD Poor quality due to a fault
It looks as though they've only more recently listed this, but as it is known it'll no doubt get fixed asap.
Do NOT retune.
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Monday, 18 September 2023
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
WHITEHAWK HILL transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 17 Sep 23:42 until 17 Sep 23:44. . [BBC]
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Tuesday, 19 September 2023
Transmitter engineering
11:21 PM
11:21 PM
WHITEHAWK HILL transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 17 Sep 23:42 until 17 Sep 23:44. . FM: Broadcasting in mono due to a fault from 19 Sep 21:06 until 19 Sep 21:12. . [BBC]
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Wednesday, 11 October 2023
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Margaret Bacon11:14 AM
Missing out on ITV channels channel 4 and 5 etc can get bbc channels and latest tv continual problem on freeview have rescanned tv whcih now jumps from BBC 2 to channel 7 latest
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Steve Donaldson12:06 PM
Margaret Bacon: Since about Saturday there has been high pressure causing reception issues across much of the country. The effect is to cause signals from distant transmitters to travel much further. These can be from elsewhere in the UK or abroad, and when the signal is on the same frequency as the transmitter one is tuned to then this can result in picture break-up or no reception at all, depending on how strong the interfering signal is.
If you are using the Whitehawk Hill transmitter then in order to restore ITV, C4, C5 etc. then you should carry out a manual scan of UHF channel 35. If the interference is still there then you may find you can't tune it in, in which case you will have to try again at some later time.
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Chris.SE12:44 PM
Margaret Bacon:
The important point to note about any disruption to your signals whether it be caused by Engineering, Faults, or Weather conditions, is that if you know you were correctly tuned to start with, then Do NOT Retune. (You can't tune to signals that aren't there or have severe interference.). Often under those conditions it'll clear your correct tuning so you have to repeat try until you get them back, which in a worst case could be some time!!
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Friday, 13 October 2023
Clare McNeil
11:18 AM
11:18 AM
Hi wonder if you can help we have lost all BBC channels
Tried digital auto tuning but still no BBC channels. Is this due to the weather?
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