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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Sunday, 1 January 2012
Elliott I don't know about the feed from Astra, I will check that but don't forget the HQ feed online of course ! :-
http://www.tv-radio.com/s….m3u
(BN18NL)
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Apologies I did not read the end part of your message. What size satellite dish do you have ?
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Dave's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Elliott Manley9:59 AM
Alton
Elliott:
Hi Dave, thanks for the response. I have a bog standard Sky dish.
I did some experiments yesterday with Lyric FM (the Irish classical radio channel). I compared the satellite feed, decoded by my Toshiba TV, with the Internet feed sent from my laptop by the virtual soundcard facility of Jamcast via wifi to my Sony bluray player. I was surprised that the Internet -> wifi -> laptop > -Jamcast -> wifi (again) -> bluray version sounded significantly better (fuller, richer) than the satellite -> TV version. Whether this reflects more on the compression of the satellite signal or on the relative processing abilities of the TV vs the bluray player, I cannot say - though I suspect the former. Comments welcome.
This limited experiment with an unrelated signal (!) does encourage me to stick with the Internet and not put too much effort into finding a weak satellite signal. To this end I have ordered an Internet radio.
This also has the potential to remove two sources of irritation with the Toshiba TV, which has no straightforward way of selecting radio channels and the screen cannot be turned off when listening to the radio. I am anticipating using the Internet radio instead of the TV as my standard method of reception. We'll see...
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Elliott's: mapE's Freeview map terrainE's terrain plot wavesE's frequency data E's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Elliot.. ok quite an involved setup you have ! Good idea to buy an internet radio, I have 6 of them plus the tunein app on the iphone
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Dave's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 3 January 2012
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Oliver8:23 PM
Hi I have a samsung freeview + hd box but can't seem to get the freeview HD channels (BBCHD + ITVHD) . And live right next to the whitehawk hill transmitter. Anyone help or can we not get freeview hd here yet.?
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Oliver: HD services will be switched on from Whitehawk at the second stage of switchover on 21st March.
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Friday, 13 January 2012
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Dave Rogers12:18 PM
I live near the top of the valley in Denton (BN9). I am aware of the switchover due in March onwards, and I have a couple of comments and questions.
I receive Freeview (and DAB - proper aerial)from Whitehawk and have for years lost ITV, & 4 etc in wet weather. I realised on New Years Day that I was watching Ch4 and it was raining, so yes, well pleased with improved performance!
After Newhaven comes on stream will it still be sensible to pick up Freeview from Brighton (ie do nothing other than retune) or should I realign my aerial (or even need a new aerial, get rid of the amplifier etc)?
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Dave Rogers: Newhaven will only carry the Public Service Broadcaster (PSB) Freeview channels but Whitehawk will carry them all, so you would probably be best advised to stick with it if you can. The signal strength will be increased at switchover, so hopefully it will make it more reliable for you.
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Dave Rogers12:47 PM
Many thanks, Dave.
As I said, I seem to have improved Freeview performance as of New Year's.
Pleased to hear Whitehawk, as well as Newhaven, will soon carry BBC South East News etc - the only reason I still have C39 analogue from Newhaven tuned.
Working out nicely, it would seem.......?
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Dave Rogers: You will also get Radio 4 on Freeview, so you might be able to connect it up to your hi-fi to listen that way.
BTW, the full list of BBC national FM transmitters is here:
BBC - Help receiving TV and radio - Transmitters
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