Full Freeview on the Hastings (East Sussex, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Hastings (East Sussex, England) transmitter which serves 18,000 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 Hastings (East Sussex, 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)
The Hastings (East 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 Hastings 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 Hastings (East 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 Hastings transmitter?
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 37km northwest (323°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Maidstone ME14 5NZ, 47km north (357°)
to ITV Meridian (East) region - 36 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian plus Oxford
How will the Hastings (East Sussex, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 17 Jul 2018 | ||||
| VHF | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | ||||
| C4 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C22 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C23 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C25 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C26 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C28 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C30 | -ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C32 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C35 | C5waves | C5waves |
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 30 May 12 and 13 Jun 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4, Analogue 5, SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | 1000W | |
| Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-7dB) 200W | |
| Mux 1* | (-10dB) 100W |
Local transmitter maps
Hastings Freeview Hastings DAB Hastings TV region BBC South East Meridian (East micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Hastings transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldTuesday, 8 February 2011
I live in Hastings Old Town. We bought a freeview box: no signal so we gave it away. We have a flat screen TV with it built in: No signal. We have been told we have to buy a satellite dish: listed building. Given that we don't get Channel 5, get bad reception even on BBC2 and watch mainly DVDs will we still have to pay a license fee when British TV goes digital?
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Colin Bailey: You will get Freeview (Light) in 2012, as it says above.
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Friday, 8 April 2011
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John Rowlinson9:36 AM
Hastings
At present I receive Freeview digital channels, apart from the occasional loss of signal especially on channel 5. My postcode is TN34 1LY and I have line of sight of the transmitter aerial but would like clarification of whether I will be able to receive Freeview HD transmissions after the switchover in 2012. I have spoken with local TV retailers and one or two aerial engineers but opinions vary from probably to absolutely not because the Hastings transmitter has too narrow a bandwidth. It has also been suggested to me that the proximity of the south coast to France would prohibit it as it would cause interference for our our european neighbours. Can you please give me a definitive answer on this issue?
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John's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Mike Dimmick6:32 PM
Reading
John Rowlinson: Digital UK predict that you should be able to get HD services at least as well as the BBC and ITV/C4 main multiplexes.
'Bandwidth' strictly means the width of the transmissions within a channel. All multiplexes have 8 MHz bandwidth whether SD or HD.
It's possible they meant that the radiation pattern is limited, and it is a bit, but it's not that limited. Unfortunately the broadcasters won't tell us exactly what it is.
You'd normally expect to get perfect reception at such a short distance from the transmitter, even if the radiation pattern is limited in your direction. However, the PSB multiplexes share channels with the COM multiplexes at Rowridge on the Isle of Wight, which will be transmitting in vertical polarization from April 2012, and from Rowridge and Crystal Palace in horizontal polarization. The COM multiplexes at Hastings share channels with Crystal Palace PSBs, and other south coast PSBs. It'll still be good, but the probability isn't 100%, meaning you might have to site the aerial more carefully to get best reception.
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Mike's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 14 April 2011
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SILVERS12:36 PM
Hastings
We live on Hastings Sea front,tn34 1jy. The only freeview channels we can pick up are the BBC news channel, BBC1,BBC2 and BBC3. Up until Monday the 11th we were able to view BBC1, Channel 4 and Channel 5 on analogue but now we cannot pick up any channels at all! Any advice would be much appreciated!
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SILVERS's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Friday, 15 April 2011
Sunday, 8 May 2011
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daniel badman7:47 PM
Hastings
anyone haveing problems with mux 21 droping out evry now and then for a split second saying no signal then comeing straight back
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daniel's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Wednesday, 11 May 2011
daniel badman: Can you please see Freeview intermittent interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice ?
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Friday, 13 May 2011
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daniel badman8:40 AM
Hastings
i never get any pictcher problems at all it just on mux 21 i can just be sitin here watching say itv3 some time 4 like 4 hours and the it will just sudenly say no signel the bout 2 secs later its back and some times it dont do it all i have had the 3 diffrant aerial men out and they all say my end is fine ch5 used to do it to till it weent over to mux 27
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daniel's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
daniel badman: You should have excellent reception at the moment, can you please see Freeview intermittent interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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