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 withheldWednesday, 28 March 2012
Have used my tosh a LCD successfully on Hastings tranny for years. Just swopped sets for a Sony Bravia and having trouble with all mux 2 channels. Itv1, c4. Etc.
Bbc are perfect. Itv and c4 have really low signal and keep dropping altogether. Worked better in the mornings! Seems bad in evenings. Any ideas
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KMJ,Derby8:19 PM
Darren abel: When did the problem begin with the Mux2 signal? If you had entered your postcode a check could be made on the reception predicted at your location. It is possible that changes at Bluebell Hill or Rowridge are now affecting reception from Hastings in some areas.
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Tuesday, 10 April 2012
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Lesley8:28 PM
Reading
I have just noticed we have a 'Freeview Light'.transmitter covering our area which is Earley Reading RG6 5QA. We get extremely poor reception on ITV3 (and the other stations in this eventail which we do not watch). Is this situation likely to improve? We already have free to air satellite to receive TV5monde so another satellite is not an option. We do not want sky and we have a new TV. I presume we are with the Hannington transmitter but where does the light transmitter fit in.
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Lesley's: mapL's Freeview map terrainL's terrain plot wavesL's frequency data L's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Lesley: I presume that you are referring to the Hemdean transmitter. Digital UK Tradeview doesn't even give a prediction for it, so I guess that you're not in the difficult area.
Some of the Commercial services are on low power from Hannington and this includes ITV3. These will go up to full power on 18th April when Guildford transmitter switches to digital and vacates the two channels use by Hannington.
This probably explains the issue you have been having.
Refer to this page: Freeview multiplexes | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
Under "After switchover", SDN and ArqB are the ones on low power.
There will be no need for you to retune, assuming that you have ITV3 and Yesterday stored in your receivers. Don't re-scan if they are lost; this will simply result in them being lost from the channel listings.
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Wednesday, 30 May 2012
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eric12:07 PM
Helo
i have done all the neccasary changes to my receivers, but have lost all itv channels. can you help?
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Daniel Badman1:25 PM
Egremont
bbca is fine at tn35 5ef even tho digital uk says it dont work i have ss100 sq 100 on lg tv but 4 my sagemcom RTI90-320 i have used a attenuator a it is very sensitive to signal overload :)
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Daniel's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
eric: If your set has manual tuning, then manually tune to C27 for ITV1, ITV2, C4, C5 etc from Hastings. This will change to C28 from 13th June.
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Sunday, 10 June 2012
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Anch9:52 PM
Eastbourne
Hi! I live in eastbourne , my tv has freeview built in but i cannot get any ITV channels . Please help me! I dont know what to do now. Your reply is highly appreciated! Thank you.
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Anch's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Anch: Wait until this Wednesday and ITV and other channels should become available. Only the BBC channels go to full power (and therefore become available to some for the first time) at the first stage of switchover. At the second and final stage, the rest go to full power (and become available for the first time for some).
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Wednesday, 13 June 2012
daniel badman: Post code checkers should be used as a guide only. I view the predictor as a guide to *possible* likelihood of success.
They exist because of the demand from people for such a service. Signals aren't carried by Royal Mail and there are so many variables that could never be taken into account that they can't be perfect. A whole post code can have widely varying signal levels, local obstructions (buildings and trees) aren't taken into account. Neither are the properties of a viewer's aerial, which also affects reception. There are other variables....
Prediction of the weather is much the same thing, although perhaps there is more chance of techniques being improved with it.
I'm a little puzzled by the results that the predictor returns for TN35 5EF because at the top where is lists the transmitters it includes Hastings, but then below where is gives the prediction for each one that is listed it doesn't include Hastings. By the way, "Hastings Old Town" is a different transmitter to "Hastings".
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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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