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The symbol shows the location of the Hastings (East Sussex, England) transmitter which serves 18,000 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 Hastings (East Sussex, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Hastings transmitter broadcast?

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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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
C25 (506.0MHz)123mDTG-1,000W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) South East, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 16 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
C28 (530.0MHz)123mDTG-1,000W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian (East micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Meridian south coast),

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C22 (482.0MHz)123mDTG-1,000W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South East, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

COM4
SDN
 V max
C23 (490.0MHz)121mDTG-81,000W
Channel icons
20 Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 Dave ja vu, 58 ITVBe +1, 59 ITV3 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 78 TCC, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 89 ITV4 +1, 91 WildEarth, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 267 Al Jazeera English, plus 30 others

COM5
ArqA
 V max
C26 (514.0MHz)123mDTG-81,000W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 Yesterday +1, 75 That's 90s, 233 Sky News, plus 11 others

COM6
ArqB
 V max
C30- (545.8MHz)123mDTG-81,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 W, 27 Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! romance, 56 That's TV (UK), 61 GREAT! movies extra, 63 GREAT! romance mix, 71 That’s 60s, 73 HobbyMaker, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

DTG-8 64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

The Hastings (East Sussex, 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 Hastings transmitter?

regional news image
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 37km northwest (323°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
regional news image
ITV Meridian News 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Maidstone ME14 5NZ, 47km north (357°)
to ITV Meridian (East) region - 36 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian plus Oxford

How will the Hastings (East Sussex, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1950s-80s1984-971997-981998-20122012-1317 Jul 2018
VHFA K TA K TA K TA K TA K T
C4BBCtvwaves
C22BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBCBBBCB
C23SDNSDN
C25BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCA
C26ArqAArqA
C28ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C30-ArqBArqB
C32C4wavesC4wavesC4waves
C35C5wavesC5waves

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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 30 May 12 and 13 Jun 12.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4, Analogue 5, SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB 1000W
Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D*(-7dB) 200W
Mux 1*(-10dB) 100W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Hastings transmitter area

Aug 1958-Jan 1992Southern Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992Television South (TVS)
Jan 1993-Feb 2004Meridian
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Hastings was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

Radiation patterns withheld

Comments
Monday, 4 June 2012
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

6:26 AM

HASTINGS transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 00:21 on 30 May to 02:50 on 30 May [BBC]

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Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

6:26 AM

HASTINGS transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 00:21 on 30 May to 02:50 on 30 May [BBC]

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Sunday, 10 June 2012
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Anch
9:52 PM
Eastbourne

Hi! I live in eastbourne , my tv has freeview built in but i cannot get any ITV channels . Please help me! I dont know what to do now. Your reply is highly appreciated! Thank you.

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Dave Lindsay
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10:38 PM

Anch: Wait until this Wednesday and ITV and other channels should become available. Only the BBC channels go to full power (and therefore become available to some for the first time) at the first stage of switchover. At the second and final stage, the rest go to full power (and become available for the first time for some).

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Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Dave Lindsay
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

11:15 AM
Hastings

daniel badman: Post code checkers should be used as a guide only. I view the predictor as a guide to *possible* likelihood of success.

They exist because of the demand from people for such a service. Signals aren't carried by Royal Mail and there are so many variables that could never be taken into account that they can't be perfect. A whole post code can have widely varying signal levels, local obstructions (buildings and trees) aren't taken into account. Neither are the properties of a viewer's aerial, which also affects reception. There are other variables....

Prediction of the weather is much the same thing, although perhaps there is more chance of techniques being improved with it.


I'm a little puzzled by the results that the predictor returns for TN35 5EF because at the top where is lists the transmitters it includes Hastings, but then below where is gives the prediction for each one that is listed it doesn't include Hastings. By the way, "Hastings Old Town" is a different transmitter to "Hastings".

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Daniel Badman
12:25 PM
Egremont

well i did a manual retune and got all these signals as a exsampel dave and chalenge on uhf26 bbca on 25 bbcb 22 and all with perfict signal and i have 4 neighbours and all with the same chanels and signal my lg tv say 100sq and 98 ss but i know the digital boxes ant 100% right my sagemcom says 98sq and 78 ss and i was allso confused by the digital uks web site as u where but it works so thats why i was just letin evryone know try and see what happends

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Dave Lindsay
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12:46 PM

Daniel Badman: Thanks for the report; it's good to hear that you have it sorted.

Different devices use different scales and have different tolerances so you can't really compare one with another.

The objective with digital is to have good quality. There needs to be a strong enough signal for it to be above the threshold for a receiver to resolve a picture.

The picture produced with a 100% quality signal with strength of 65% is the same as 100% quality with 85% strength. If a booster is connected to increase the strength, then it should be removed. "If" the quality is an issue (i.e. you get break-up) without it, then it may need to be present, but if there is good quality without it, then don't use it.

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Daniel Badman
1:35 PM
Egremont

thanks for that no i dont use a amp but i have had to use a antuator for my sagemcom box as that is very sensertive to signal overload

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Thursday, 14 June 2012
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Malcolm Wood
3:02 PM
Eastbourne

Help

My location is BN20 8HA in Eastbourne. Prior to switch over I had been able to receive a pretty good signal from Hastings for all multiplexes. Since the second stage of switch over I have been unable to receive channels 23, 26 and 30. vastly reducing the number of stations.

I suspect this is due to interference from Eastbourne transmitting the same frequencies with the same polarisation. Both transmitters are line of site but on relative bearings of about 90 degrees.

My aerial is fairly a short (4 Directors in front of the dipole) wideband.

Could a more directional aerial solve this or should I try Heathfield (possibly shielded by terrain) or admit defeat and go over to freesat?

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daniel badman
8:36 PM
Egremont

if you want all the channels i wood say go for Heathfield and how meeny tv aare you going to run of the aerial if you are runing more than one i wood say you might need a mastherd amp but be carfull not to overload the the boxs/tv as its a bit like a stero when you turn it up too load it will distort same thing with a tv signal to much and it will make it look like you ant got enuf and if you can get Heathfield you wont get itv3 ex till the 27th june as it is still on old low power

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