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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, 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
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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Thursday, 9 February 2012
Clare McNeil
1:39 PM
1:39 PM
Sorry meant to say thanks to Brian, Jay & Jim for your replies. Typing too fast for my own good there. As I say they are appreciated as I'm not expert on these things.
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Mike Dimmick6:06 PM
jay: Briantist's links are a bit out-of-date.
Basically, three of the four multiplexes that were changed to a more robust, but lower-capacity, mode in 2002, will return to a higher-capacity mode. Indeed two of them, along with one that didn't change in 2002, will now go to an even higher-capacity mode.
The pattern currently is:
Mux 1, B, C and D: 18 Mbit/s
Mux 2 and A: 24 Mbit/s
Total: 120 Mbit/s
After switchover:
BBC A (Mux 1) and D3&4 (Mux 2): 24 Mbit/s
BBC B (Mux B): DVB-T2, HD, 40 Mbit/s
SDN, ArqA and ArqB (A, C and D): DVB-T 27 Mbit/s
Total (SD): 129 Mbit/s
Total: 169 Mbit/s
The BBC have already cleared nearly everything off Mux B, by closing some services, compressing what was previously on Mux 1 slightly more heavily (though not as much as the other multiplexes), and moving some streams across. What now remains, of the BBC channels, will easily fit in the additional 6 Mbps of space on BBC A after the mode change. BBC Four and CBeebies time-share a slot, BBC Parliament uses a smaller slot (it runs at a lower resolution, if I recall), and each radio station uses about 256 kbps.
Clearing that space gave the BBC the opportunity to sublet some capacity, to allow services that would use the extra space on ArqA or ArqB after switchover to launch early. BT have leased some of the space to carry Sky Sports 1 and 2. These will move to ArqB at switchover.
Channel 5 and S4C have already made their moves from Mux A to Mux 2, that happened in September 2009. No BBC services will now be going to Mux 2.
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Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Chris Panayi
11:59 AM
Brighton
11:59 AM
Brighton
Hi All, I was wondering if anyone has the date Whitehawk Hill starts transmitting H.D. content.
Thanks. Chris.
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Chris's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Chris Panayi: HD services will start at the second stage of switchover on 21st March.
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jo8:03 PM
Hove
I had problems with downstairs tv .built in Freeview.set ...pixillating, no signal and missing channels every now and again ...I did all the checks and before going to any great expense..I got a new aerial cable for £4.00 and HEY PRESTO ...missing channels returned, pixillating stopped ...and all has been well for 8 months.
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jo's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jb388:50 PM
jo: That's good news then! although with you being located at about only 4 miles or so away from the transmitter you will now need to hope that your signal isn't just that little bit too good come March 7th when Whitehawk Hill switches over to higher powered operation, that is from its present ERP of 200watts up to 4Kw, as an overpower-full signal can also cause problems in the receiving equipments tuner, symptoms of being exactly the same as to a weak one.
Easily rectified though simply by the with addition of an attenuator (£4.00 or so) in line with the aerial socket of the TV.
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jb388:59 PM
jo: Just to clarify, when I mentioned 200watts I was referring to BBC & SDN (ITV3 etc) as the other muxes already range from 400w to 1KW. (Mux B BBC4 / CBeebies etc)
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Sunday, 19 February 2012
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Mike2:09 PM
Is there a problem with MUX A this Sunday afternoon? There does not seem to be any signal from it.
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Mike2:33 PM
Hi Brian, It would seem that there is an output on MUX A, but at a VERY LOW ERP level. I am receiving programs now and again but very broken up
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Tuesday, 21 February 2012
Chris Panayi
11:13 AM
Brighton
11:13 AM
Brighton
Dave! Thanks for the date of the HD startup at Whitehawk Hill. You're a gentleman and a scholar.
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Chris's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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