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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Wednesday, 28 August 2013
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Kev T.12:49 AM
Brighton
Hi Ive got a roof ariel, and a booster from Asda, going into a Sagemcomm HD PVR.
My postcode is BN1 3LQ. I'm getting masive pic breakup even when the power meter on the channel selector says full power recption. Do I need one of these filter thingies? I never used to get a picture this bad. Is there something wrong with the transmitter?
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Kev's: mapK's Freeview map terrainK's terrain plot wavesK's frequency data K's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jb387:35 AM
Kev T.: Try connecting the aerial directly into your PVR as what you have reported is inclined to indicate that the tuners RF input circuitry is being overloaded by an excessively high signal level being fed into it.
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Tuesday, 3 September 2013
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Ron Charlton6:08 PM
BBC 1,2,3and 4.Frequent dropouts for some weeks now.Signal strength,100% but signal quality varies between 90% and zero.
No other channels affected.
(4 element broadside array,in loft with distribution amplifier)
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MikeB8:38 PM
Ron Charlton: You have the classic symptons of too strong a signal - see:
Freeview signals: too much of a good thing is bad for you | Digital switchover | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice
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Sunday, 8 September 2013
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Jay8:28 PM
Following thunder storm this afternoon we have lost ALL freeview channels. Have tried retuning several times, switched off and left off for a bit before retrying but nothing. No channels can be found at all - NOTHING!! Anyone else got problems?
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Jay: There's no transmitter problems reported.
If you've already checked Freeview reception has changed? | Freeview Interference | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice for everything, it's possible that you've fused something.
Do you have an aerial amplifier that is mains powered, for example.
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Jay10:26 PM
Briantist - thanks. Yes we have a booster/amplifier that is plugged into the mains. The light is on. It has a small dial to in/decrease the "boost" (sorry not technical).
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Tuesday, 17 December 2013
Since May 2013 I have been experiencing intermittent interference on my Freeview. I live ib Brighton BN1 2FJ and I have a roof arial pointing to the Whitehawk transmitter. I contacted AT800 and two seperate engineers visited my house and both agreed my arial was perfectly OK and determined that 4G was not the problem. The initial problem only occurred on Channel 60, i.e the BBC channels. I decided to resolve the problem by buying an HD Freeview box. Initially this appeared to resolve the problem by watching the main channels on the HD channel. However, recently the problem has got worse and effects all channels intermittently. In the worse case scenario the SD channels have severe pixalation and the HD channels cannot detect a signal. When the interference occurs the signal strenght and quality are very low whereas without the interference the strength is around 72 and quality 100. One of my neighbours who uses Freeview with external arial is also having similar interference problems. It is very frustrating when you sit down to watch the last episode of a favourite series to find the recording totally unwatchable. All suggestions welcome.
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Michael's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Michael John Wales: Perhaps it is the case that at times the signal strength is going too high:
Freeview signals: too much of a good thing is bad for you | Digital switchover | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice
There are a number of buildings that could be blocking your line-of-sight and maybe something is occuring at some times which causes a strong beam to be sent your way. This could be a reflection, refraction or diffraction.
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