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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 25/03/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels Digital tick


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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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
C48- (689.8MHz)171mDTG-4,000W
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
C35 (586.0MHz)171mDTG-4,000W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian (South Coast 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
C36 (594.0MHz)171mDTG-4,000W
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
C33 (570.0MHz)164mDTG-84,000W
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
C57 (762.0MHz)171mDTG-84,000W
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
C32 (562.0MHz)171mDTG-84,000W
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

LBN
 V -10dB
C40 (626.0MHz)171mDTG-12400W
Channel icons
from 8th July 2014: 7 Latest TV,

DTG-8 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?

regional news image
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 43km northeast (36°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
regional news image
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-80s1984-971997-981998-20122012-1316 Oct 2019
VHFC/D EEEC/D E TW T
C2BBCtvwaves
C34ArqA
C35C5wavesC5wavesD3+4
C36BBCB
C40_local
C48ArqBArqB
C51tv_offBBCB
C53tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4wavesD3+4
C54tv_offLBN
C56tv_offArqA
C57tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesSDNSDN
C60tv_offITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves-BBCABBCA
C63BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves

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

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. Whitehawk Hill 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.

Comments
Wednesday, 5 October 2011
Briantist
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11:45 AM

Pogle: There is a transmitter on the Isle of Wight at Rowridge. Sometimes you can't use the "nearest" transmitter because there is, as there is in Kemptown, a massive hill in the way.

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Garth
12:03 PM

Seem to have lost all the BBC channels on the Whitehawk Transmitter. Noticed this on the 3rd October 2011

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Pogle
12:47 PM
Brighton

OK, I've answered my own question: yes, Stupid, it points the way you'd expect. Not just an assumption. And yes I'm picking up IoW which is 100x more powerful than Whitehawk.

The problem I'd been having was that my Humax was automatically tuning certain channels to Whitehawk and they were very unreliable. I found a way to manually tune everything to IoW.

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Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

1:53 PM

Pogle: I'm glad you have found how to do that.

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Tuesday, 11 October 2011
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Richie
1:39 AM
Brighton

Further to Steve's comments of 27 Sept and Pogle's last week, I live on Kemp Town seafront BN2 and have noticed significant deterioration in terrestrial Freeview signal since the engineering works were carried out on Whitehawk transmitter last month. Everything had been fine in the 7 years I've lived here. BBC 1 and 2 are now often unwatchable because of freezing or pixellation, or off completely. My Humax PVR says we are receiving Mux 1 (Ch66) with 28% signal strength at 40% quality; Mux 2 (Ch50) at 60%/100%; Mux A (Ch 55) at $0%/100%; Mux B (Ch 48) at 60%/100%; Mux C (Ch58) at 40%/100% and Mux D (Ch61) at 41%/100%. Are these the kind of figures other people in our area are now getting?
I don't know what signal strength we had before because all was well and I didn't need to check! Have retuned PVR several times and checked all indoor cables. I have not yet asked neighbours who share our communal aerial if they are also having problems, but i will, as I suppose it could be aerial-related. But it just seems weird that loads of other people posting here are having similar trouble. Any thoughts

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Friday, 14 October 2011
Briantist
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2:01 PM

Garth: There was engineering work, I can confirm the services are working now.

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Saturday, 22 October 2011
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MrBester
5:59 PM

BBC channels are operating at reduced power (less than ITV mux which was low enough to be affected by any weather condition change) since this engineering work.

Upshot being I now receive so little as to render Freeview pointless. Analogue is also experiencing major interference.

This situation is likely to continue until switchover next March. I've more than half a mind not to pay the licence...

Update: analogue just switched off. No engineering work planned or listed. Words fail me at this point.

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Briantist
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7:40 PM

MrBester: I can confirm that I have perfect reception from Whitehawk Hill at this very moment. If you have problems, they will most likely be something to fix "at your end". Please see Freeview reception has changed? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice

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MrBester
11:10 PM

Analogue briefly returned and then disappeared before your post, at which point I gave up and watched downloaded content Presumably transmission had been restored when you checked. Currently (23:04) there is no analogue or digital broadcast whatsoever - at time of last post I could receive channels on the mux serving. BBC4 / Radio 1 etc.

There is nothing wrong with my multiple tuners, cabling or aerial. Digital UK tried to claim I shouldn't be able to receive anything from Whitehawk earlier today but gave no explanation as to my ability to have done so for years...

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Monday, 24 October 2011
Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

8:37 AM

MrBester: You are mixing up the broadcast of a signal with your reception of it. The transmitter is working normally, if you can't get a signal, that doesn't mean the transmitter is not sending you one.

100,000 homes in Brighton and Hove use the transmitter, and only one can't receive a signal from it - the most logical line of reasoning is you have a reception problem.

If you can't figure it out from the help here, there are plenty of companies you can call upon.

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