Full Freeview on the Hannington (Hampshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Hannington (Hampshire, England) transmitter which serves 470,000 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 Hannington (Hampshire, 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Hannington 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Hannington transmitter?
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 46km south-southwest (194°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 48km south (179°)
to ITV Meridian/Central (Thames Valley) region - 15 masts.
Thames Valley opt-out from Meridian (South). All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian+Oxford
How will the Hannington (Hampshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 18 Apr 2018 | |||||
| E | E | E | B E T | W T | |||||
| C32 | com7 | ||||||||
| C34 | com8 | ||||||||
| C35 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C39 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C40 | SDN | ||||||||
| C41 | SDN | ||||||||
| C42 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C43 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C44 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C45 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C46 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C47 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C51tv_off | _local | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off | ||||||||
| C66 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 8 Feb 12 and 22 Feb 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 250kW | |
| Analogue 5 | (-6.2dB) 60kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 50kW | |
| com7 | (-8.3dB) 36.7kW | |
| com8 | (-9.8dB) 26.2kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 25kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-11dB) 20kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-14dB) 10kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Hannington transmitter area
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Wednesday, 18 April 2012
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Adrian10:08 PM
Wokingham
Same here: All 6 muxes are 10/10 for both signal strength and quality.
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Thursday, 19 April 2012
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Dennis12:04 AM
All signals very strong in Farnborough GU14 using masthead amplifeir and wideband aerial.
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tim12:09 AM
Not here, I have the PBS1 mux, but that is it. I dont even have the Coms5 mux which I did have for a while.
I tried doing a scan with the cable unplugged to reset, however it still found the PBS1, and when I plugged it back in nothing changed
We are GU52 and it does appear to be a black spot, however hte freeview predictors that I have tried have all suggested that we should have full freeview now.
Any thoughts?
I'm going to give it some time but I probably need some sort of booster or something else
Malcolm, you said we were on the same line as you- do you have good signal now?
tim
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Malcolm H
7:51 AM
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7:51 AM
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tim:
Since DSO I am having a lot of reception problems here in RG27. I experience sudden pixellating and sudden loud audio interference on both Hannington and Crystal Palace. Prior to DSO we had no problems. After Hannington DSO I tried many things to find stable reception (other than changing the aerial...) to no avail so decided to leave it until after CP DSO. During yesterday (CP DSO) MUXs were dropping out but, using the OFCOM tables, I still couldn't find any pattern to the symptoms. Assuming CP DSO is now finally complete I may try again today. The barometric pressure was very low yesterday (976 HPa) but I am beginning to wonder if it is precipition-related rather than pressure-related. Should I really have to change both aerials to Wide-Band when reception was OK before DSO?
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tim9:46 AM
No, I don't believe so. If you have never had any digital channels at all then there would be a possibility that you needed a better Ariel. If you have ever received digital channels then as far as I am aware, it cant be the ariels fault the ariels fault.
I carried out a hard factory reset this morning, with the very satisfying result that my channels (only limited to PbS1 i.e. the BBC mux) have for the first timte arranged themselves into the correct digital tv channel numbering. Of course unfortunately I havent gained any that were meant to come through yesterday, but it is still a step in the right direction
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Steve Flynn12:39 PM
Haslemere
Reception change June 2012
I am in Haslemere GU27 3RL and have a diplexed 2 aerial system pointing at Hannington and Crystal Palace. Our local transmitter is Freeview Lite and suffers from channel overlap with CP so isn't an option.
DUK trade view shows a reception change in May 2012 which will result in the loss of SDN, ARQA and B from Hannington. So far we haven't picked up these MUX's from CP (in line with DUK prediction). There is a further reception change shown in June 2012 which will degrade D3&4 for us.
Is there any information available about these changes?
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Steve Flynn: I remember when you raised this issue a couple of months back:
Haslemere digital TV transmitter | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
I'm surprised that the Haslemere transmitter has been given channels that are used by another transmitter that will clearly interfere in its designated service area.
Whilst you could use Crystal Palace for PSBs only, it is London region whereas your nearest "designated" transmitter is Meridian.
The Digital UK Tradeview predictor just gives a guide to reception but does not give any indication of where this may be limited by interference and crucially, which transmitter providing the interferce.
In some cases it is clear; for example Crystal Palace which is "good" where you are is likely to be the culprit for degradation of Haslemere's signals.
I suggest that Heathfield might be the reason why DUK suggests that reception of Hannington's COMs and PSB2 will get worse in June.
See the "After Switchover" maps for C41, C42, C44 and C47:
UK TV Frequency map - channel C41 (634.0MHz) before switchover map | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
Heathfield would surely be the likely candidate as it uses these four channels but not C45 and C39 as used by Hannington's PSB1 and PSB3 which aren't forecasted to change in June.
What this doesn't mean is that you "will" have an issue. Hannington and Heathfield appear to be roughly 180 degrees apart for you.
If, for example, there are trees or a building in the direction of Heathfield, then this will probably work in your favour; helping to block Heathfield's signals.
Can you pick up Hannington's COMs now that they are on their full final power. Note that Hannington's PSBs are 50kW and its COMs are 25kW. The latter use a less robust mode which allows them to carry more services at the expense of some viewers in fringe areas.
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Steve Flynn: I should also point out that as Heathfield is at 180 degrees to the direction your aerial is facing, the degree to which your aerial can "reject" signals from the back will probably play a part.
The pros that frequent this site can probably tell you more, but perhaps there are some types of aerial that have better rejection of signals from the rear than others.
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Steve Flynn1:49 PM
Haslemere
Dave Lindsay: Thanks for the info, the timing does match the Heathfield DSO dates. We don't have line of sight to Heathfield so I hope it won't be a factor when it switches.
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Hannington is our nearest transmitter (we are in Maidenhead). Since the switch over began we have had a very unusual problem.
whenever we switch to a BBC TV or Radio station, it palys fine while the channel info bar is there, but when it disappears afer 5-10 seconds the channels automatically starts playing the BBC1 audio if we are on a radio channel and the BBC1 audio and video if we are on a BBC TV channel. All none BBC channels are fine.
If you then pull up any on-screen menu, it reverts back to the originally selected channel.
We are using a Sony freeview box.
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