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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Friday, 13 October 2023
Clare McNeil
6:46 PM
6:46 PM
Sorry forgot to add neighbour have BBC.
This is very confusing . I fear we may not get
BBC back again or it could be a long wait.
Wished we never return now. Thanks for your help
Sorry I can't be of more help our end.
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Chris.SE7:06 PM
Clare McNeil :
Ah, I can see where the confusion is -
Quote "The manual tuning is only showing channels 22-66."
That's precisely what it should be showing it's the UHF channels for the multiplexes not the TV Programme channels. When tuning manually you select the UHF channel for the multiplex you want. An automatic tune would go through all 22-66.
When retuning you do the UHF channels not the TV programme numbers so you do't do 1,2, 231 etc.
So in your case you need to choose 48 to start and tell it to tune.
After it's done that then select 36 and tell it to tune. But as it's an old set in my not be HD so 36 may not get anything (these are for the High definition channels that are at the programme numbers 101-107 etc.
Hope that helps, try again.
PS. Sony sets are normally quite good.
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Clare McNeil
7:49 PM
7:49 PM
Hi Chris SE
Thanks so much for your help I followed
your instructions and have every BBC channel except BBC
one. It's showing BBC 2 instead, so I have two BBC 2
now.
Many thanks.
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Chris.SE8:11 PM
Clare McNeil :
Ah good, at least you are picking up the multiplex ok, that's very odd about 2 BBC2s.
IF you are getting all the other channels ok, the full 120+ of them, without any interference or pixellation, you could try tuning from scratch, but have a look to see what you are getting first.
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Clare McNeil
8:27 PM
8:27 PM
Hi Chris SE
Just quick update. I now have BBC 1 and 2 correctly
now, however the signal is not great. The weather
has suddenly turned nasty. All other BBC channels are
fine. I won't do a re tune and see how it goes.
Many thanks for all your time and help. I have
learnt so much.
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Chris.SE9:54 PM
Clare McNeil :
No problem. Post back if you need more help. As you say, best not to retune and see how it goes.
Don't be afraid to ask any questions even if they might seem silly ;)
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Saturday, 21 October 2023
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Sarah Bagg10:04 PM
Completely lost HD channels, I've retuned several times but still no HD
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Chris.SE11:21 PM
Sarah Bagg:
You must have been correctly tuned initially. Why have you retuned? You cannot tune a signal that is not there.
If you have no signal or badly pixellated pictures it is never advised to retune if you were correctly tuned to start with, whatever the cause, be it weather conditions, transmitter faults or maintenance or your aerial system problems.
Doing so will often just clear the correct tuning or sometimes tune you to a weaker signal from another transmitter which will often disappear.
There are currently no reported faults that I can find and the transmitter isn't listed for Planned Engineering at this time.
Are you having any problems with any other channels, if so please list some of them?
Sometimes aerial system faults can cause the loss of one multiplex without any obvious/immediate effects on the others.
Check that your aerial is still pointing correctly, that the coax downlead isn't flapping in the wind, and check your coax plugs are in correctly with no corrosion or water.
To avoid the possibility of losing other multiplexes whatever the cause, you'd be best advised to do a Manual retune for the UHF channel of the missing multiplex. (Unfortunately the site owner hasn't had time to update every transmitter page with the full changes since the 700MHz Clearance programme so those at the top of the page aren't the complete current list).
(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.
If you hover on each of the aforementioned channel numbers, it'll give you the frequency if you need to know those.
So try manual tuning UHF channel C36 for the BBCB HD multiplex.
See Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview for which TV channels are carried on which multiplex.
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Monday, 30 October 2023
Transmitter engineering
10:47 AM
10:47 AM
Whitehawk Hill transmitter - Whitehawk Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 30/10/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 6 November 2023
Transmitter engineering
5:10 AM
5:10 AM
Whitehawk Hill transmitter - Whitehawk Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 06/11/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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