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 withheldFriday, 29 June 2012
Adrian Durrant: If you do decide to realign your aerial to Heathfield, then you could always add attenuation if the signal level received turns out to be too high.
In any case you will probably be able to split the signal to serve multiple rooms using an unpower splitter:
Television Aerial Boosters / Amplifiers, Splitters, Diplexers & Triplexers
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Adrian Durrant1:51 PM
Many thanks, I will see how things go, see if it turns out that re-aligning's the way to go. If that situation comes about it would indeed be a good idea to use a splitter; could then do away with my amplified splitter.
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Sunday, 1 July 2012
Malcolm Wood: If you're reading this, I've just read the article you provided a link to written by Bill Wright about phased arrays. Have you tried it out and are you in business?
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Wednesday, 11 July 2012
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Adrian Durrant10:43 PM
Dave, the 'wattage' figure for the transmitters (at the right), is that what we used to call 'ERP' (Effective Radiated Power)?
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Adrian Durrant: Yes they are ERPs.
According to Digital UK predictor and Ofcom's "Digital Switchover Transmitter Details", all of Hastings' six multiplexes are at 1kW:
Ofcom | Digital Switchover Transmitter Details
However, the multiplex licences published by Ofcom, version 7 (27 January 2012) says that the PSBs are 1kW and the COMs are 0.5kW:
Ofcom | Supplementary licence documents in relation to DSO
I understand that the information at the top of this page is sourced from the licences document.
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Adrian Durrant11:46 PM
Many thanks Dave, still considering the idea of realigning my Triax Unix 100 to Heathfield instead of Hastings, and I'm comparing the power of the transmitters. It would actually be quite a big fiddly job and the only benefit would be that I could use an unpowered splitter instead of the powered one I have. Also I guess Heathfield signals might be less affected by co-channel interference during high atmospheric pressure... It's a tough call, jury's still out I guess!
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Wednesday, 25 July 2012
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Adrian Durrant10:40 AM
Eastbourne
Dave; Many thanks for your advice, having thought about it I decided to realign to Heathfield; it was tricky because it meant dismantling the six-year-old aerial and mast and moving it to another corner of the chimney (to keep birds'-muck off the chimney), I took a few hours quite laborious and fiddly work and disaster loomed when I found a couple of vital nuts were rusted... however engine grease got them loosened. Pleased to say it was a job worth doing because it makes more sense to use the more powerful transmitter and I have been able to do what you suggested and use an unpowered splitter and have binned my old powered one. I located the Heathfield transmitter with binoculars and beamed the Triax 100 straight at it! Plenty of signal to split four ways and reception's excellent.
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Adrian's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Adrian Durrant: Good to hear that you have success. It's great when a plan comes together!
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Monday, 13 August 2012
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Malcolm Wood6:01 PM
Eastbourne
Dave Lindsay
Not yet tried the array. I have been pondering what to do all this time.
I haves decided to site a Log periodic below roof hight in the gap between my house and next door, the houses line up almost exactly with Hastings. Im hoping this will provide sufficient shielding from South Cliff tower especially as this may also bring the line of trees in the park behind my house in to play. If this does not work I will invest in another log to add in an array.
I thought I would go for logs as the reflectors on a pair of vertical Yagis might foul each other and limit accurate spacing of the array. Also less windage.
I probably won't get this done until September and will report the results.
In the mean time I would be very interested in your thoughts.
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Malcolm's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Saturday, 8 September 2012
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Geoff Mynn8:13 PM
Eastbourne
Problems with Freeview from Hastings today. BBC channels disappeared this morning and the ITV signal strength was pretty bad this afternoon.
Tonight, all of the Hastings multiplexes went for about 10 minutes. There were also a number of continental channels appearing this morning. I have performed several retunes on 2 DTRs, but at the moment the signal is very 'hit and miss'.
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Geoff's: mapG's Freeview map terrainG's terrain plot wavesG's frequency data G's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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