Full Freeview on the Hannington (Hampshire, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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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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Thursday, 23 February 2012
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Lance Spencer2:18 PM
Well, the DSO has now been accomlished but whereas I could receive all the old MUX c & D transmissions without a problem I can now receive all except ARQB (the old MUX D!!).
why is this?
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Patrick Midgley4:44 PM
I posted a problem with Hannington earlier this morning, but it has not been replied to. I have tried all the recommended "fixes", but none of them worked. I am not able to pick up ITV channels without retuning the tv. As soon as I switch the tv off or go to standby, the stations are not retained and I have to start all over again. BBC channels work fine. This situation has only occurred since 22/02/12. The earlier switchover 08/02 worked fine.
Incidentally, I have 2 other tv's in the house and they appear to have retuned perfectly. This one has not. The retailer tells me that there is no problem with the tv. It is the Hannington transmission that is at fault! Please clarify for me?
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jb385:12 PM
Patrick Midgley: Speaking in general terms that type of fault is nearly always associated with receiving more channels than the receiving devices tuner can store, hence when its switched off etc it loses them.
Out of everything you tried did that include a factory reset "before" auto scanning? as in most cases that fixes the problem.
By the way "factory reset" sometimes called "default setting" or "first time installation" depending on the equipment used.
If the aforementioned doesnt cure the problem maybe you could indicate the model of TV involved, also does your TV automatically store channels or do you have to manually do it by selecting "store"?
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Neil5:32 PM
Yesterday I had the commercial channels and BBC with loads of errors and breaking up. Today only BBC but no errors. Signal strength @60%. Yesterday fluctiating between 50 and 70. Any thoughts?
Location: Fleet
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Hello.
Since the switchover yesterday, I've not been able to receive ITV4 or anything else on ArqB. I have a Freeview set-top box (HUMAX PVR-9300T) and the aerial is on top of the block of flats in which I live (I'm in the 7th floor of 11). Prior to yesterday, I could receive all channels with no issues.
I've tried an automatic search (from scratch), a manual search on that frequency, a manual search from other nearby(ish) transmitters, switching everything off and on again etc etc but with no joy. The message is always simply "no channels found".
Is this a result of the lower power transmission? I can receive SDN & ArqA with no issues. Will I have to wait until April?
Thanks
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drh7:52 PM
Hello Folks,
I'm based in Farnborough GU14.
After giving Hannington time to settle down, I find there are no channels on COM5 ArqA (Ch.44) and Com6 ArqB (Ch.47).
All other channels are fine.
I have a wideband aerial with a masthead ampifier.
I am (un?)fortunate in that I am in a direct line between Crystal Palace and Hannington and the aerial also picks up some London channels which are stored as 801, 802, 803 etc. in the receiver.
Could the problem of missing channels be due to interference from CP or simply be down to insufficient signal levels in the GU14 area?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
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jb389:37 PM
drh: There isn't really anything you can do to help the situation, as the insufficient level of signal referred to is basically caused by the commercial multiplexes being on low power until April 18th. There is an element of confusion about this issue though, as DUK has (mistakenly?) indicated the power as already being at its final level, whereas Arqiva the transmitter operating company has stated that both ArqA & ArqB will be on low power until April, and I am inclined to take what the actual transmitter operator states before anything else seen reported, as Arqiva are the ones with their finger on the pulse, so to say.
By the way, Crystal Palace does not really come into equation as far as the problem you are experiencing is concerned.
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Friday, 24 February 2012
HANNINGTON transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:06 on 22 Feb to 04:23 on 22 Feb [BBC]
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HANNINGTON transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:06 on 22 Feb to 04:23 on 22 Feb [BBC]
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Lance Spencer9:50 AM
Latest on my search for the elusive ARQB signal.
This morning I put back my aerial amplifier with its output gooing directly into the TV (Panasonic TX-L24E3B) instead of via anything else and tried manually tuning on channel 47 for ARQB... nothing!! The TV metering shows about 4 for signal strength and ZERO for quality!
I did the same for ARQA on channel 44 without the amplifier and all the appropriate stations were listed with about 2/3 for qualty and about 3 for strength.
As ARQA and ARQB are transmitted at the same power (10kW until 18th April) I just don't understand the problem.
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