Full Freeview on the Midhurst (West Sussex, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Midhurst (West Sussex, England) transmitter which serves 94,000 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 Midhurst (West Sussex, England) mast?
Midhurst transmitter - Midhurst 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Midhurst (West 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 Freeview channels does the Midhurst 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)
The Midhurst (West 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 Midhurst transmitter?
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 51km west-southwest (256°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.6%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 41km west-southwest (248°)
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 Midhurst (West Sussex, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 16 Oct 2019 | |||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | C/D E T | K T | |||
| C29 | SDN | ||||||||
| C33 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C34 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C35 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C36 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C48 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | ||||||
| C54tv_off | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C55tv_off | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | |||
| C56tv_off | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||||||
| C58tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||
| C59tv_off | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ||||||
| C61 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | |||||
| C62 | SDN | ||||||||
| C68 | 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 29 Feb 12 and 14 Mar 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 100kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 10kW | |
| Mux C* | (-16dB) 2.5kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 2kW | |
| Mux D* | (-20dB) 1000W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Midhurst transmitter area
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Friday, 22 September 2023
Transmitter engineering
11:20 PM
11:20 PM
MIDHURST transmitter - DAB: Reduced quality due to a fault from 17 Sep 23:45 until 17 Sep 23:52. Reduced quality due to a fault from 17 Sep 23:45 until 18 Sep 23:52. Off the air due to a fault from 17 Sep 23:40 until 17 Sep 23:42. . [BBC]
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Saturday, 23 September 2023
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
MIDHURST transmitter - DAB: Reduced quality due to a fault from 17 Sep 23:45 until 18 Sep 23:52. . [BBC]
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Sunday, 8 October 2023
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Caspen8:04 PM
Why can I only receive bbc channels this evening same problem yesterday.
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Monday, 9 October 2023
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Chris.SE12:53 AM
Caspen:
Apart from possible Engineering, it could well be current weather conditions affecting you, they have been causing Tropospheric Ducting affecting much of the south coast and southern parts of the country on Saturday and now extending into the Midlands and North of the country through Sunday including East Anglia. This causes interfering signals from distant transmitters in Europe or the UK to affect reception of your wanted signals. This can periodically last, seconds, minutes and sometimes much longer - Do NOT Retune.
There is nothing you can do about this apart from wait for conditions to change, or use online streaming if available.
IF you did retune, you be best manually retuning the UHF channels for your transmitter.
The BBC have issued warnings -
High pressure weather conditions impacting TV & Radio services - 6th October | Help receiving TV and radio
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Tuesday, 10 October 2023
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Caspen11:18 PM
Chris.SE:
Thanks but our tv automatically retunes so for the past 4 evenings there has only been 20 channels on tv guide most of them have no signal or weak signal. Seems perfectly okay all day tonight was fine till 8pm.. surely weather conditions same day and night. Have to say have enjoyed the sun everyday just annoying no signal at night.
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Chris.SE11:26 PM
Caspen:
The conditions are continually changing at present and in any event there will be slight differences between day and night.
TVs that automatically retune are a pain in the **** when we have such weather conditions or even when there is Planned Engineering, and often when there is "no signal" from your correct transmitter, they can then get tuned to weak unreliable signals from other transmitters!
Have a look in the TV Tuning section and have a look for an option to turn off/disable the automatic updating/retuning. If you aren't sure, post the make and precise model number and someone should be able to advise.
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Sunday, 15 October 2023
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Stephen Benson8:39 AM
Horsham
Transmitter engineering: Postcode: RH135DA
Numerous outages at this postcode for the past few months. Similar reports at RH12 1JL.
Complete loss of all channels (weak or no signal). This occurs early morning and evening, mostly. Then all is fine. I suspect interference. Replaced aerial with little improvement . Aerial mounted 1metre pole above apex of 2 storey house.
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Chris.SE10:04 AM
Stephen Benson:
As you probably know, both those postcodes are in areas where reception is not the best and predicted to be variable. However, from your comments you obviously get quite reasonable reception the rest of the time.
Interference is a likely possibility as both postcodes should have received postcards from https://restoretv.uk and there's probably new/upgraded phone masts near you causing a problem.
You mentioned changing your aerial, which I hope was a Group K and not at Wideband or Group T. You haven't mentioned filters which you can get free from restoretv.
Did you ever get the postcards? We are aware that some people that should have received them, did not!
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Monday, 16 October 2023
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Stephen Benson7:44 AM
Horsham
Thank Chris, very helpful.
Yes Group K aerial fitted. Old triple Yagi Televes 45 was considered unnecessary anymore and it had a broken reflector arm.
I will follow up the filter suggestion. Haven't had any postcard in recent times and certainly not since this problem started. I reckon the enormous mast at the corner of Barttelot road RH12 1DE is the likely problem.
Thanks
Steve
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Stephen Benson9:00 AM
Chris SE
More precisely for the probable offending mast:
what3words: stops.sting.fence
Co-ords: 51.0612357, -0.3247314
Having checked, my previous antenna was the Televes 75.
No reception on any Midhurst station this morning, 16 Oct
Thanks,
Steve
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