Full Freeview on the Midhurst (West Sussex, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Midhurst (West Sussex, England) transmitter which serves 94,000 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 Midhurst (West Sussex, England) mast?
MIDHURST transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 10 Nov 11:53 until 10 Nov 12:59. . 
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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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Midhurst (West 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 Midhurst 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 Midhurst (West 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 Midhurst transmitter?
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 51km west-southwest (256°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.6%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 41km west-southwest (248°)
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 Midhurst (West Sussex, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 16 Oct 2019 | |||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | C/D E T | K T | |||
| C29 | SDN | ||||||||
| C33 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C34 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C35 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C36 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C48 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | ||||||
| C54tv_off | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C55tv_off | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | |||
| C56tv_off | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||||||
| C58tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||
| C59tv_off | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ||||||
| C61 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | |||||
| C62 | SDN | ||||||||
| C68 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 29 Feb 12 and 14 Mar 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 100kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 10kW | |
| Mux C* | (-16dB) 2.5kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-17dB) 2kW | |
| Mux D* | (-20dB) 1000W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Midhurst transmitter area
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Tuesday, 22 September 2020
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Chris.SE12:33 AM
C Burlison-Rush:
Glad it's been sorted :)
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Wednesday, 23 September 2020
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Mike10:48 PM
Another bad night of reception
Why can I not receive the Freeview channels on Southwater that I Want to watch
All of the BBC channels which I don't want to watch are crystal clear, but the channels I want to watch have no signal
What is going wrong????
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Thursday, 24 September 2020
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Chris.SE12:03 AM
Mike:
It might be more helpful if you were quite specific about WHICH channels that you had no signals for! AND provided a full postcode so that we can check the predicted reception for you location.
That said, Freshwater in general should have no problems receiving signals from Midhurst under normal circumstances.
There had been a lot of quite strong "Tropospheric Ducting" around causing interference, see Effect of tropospheric ducting on Freeview | RTIS for a simplistic explanation. It can be quite variable, come and go within seconds, minutes or hours. It has been particularly strong recently which can wipe out your reception.
If you happened to retune when you had no signal or it was badly pixellated, all it may have done is just clear correct tuning and may have tuned to other weaker transmitters maybe Hannington or Haslemere. The advice is NOT to retune in these conditions as you then have to repeat the retune when signals stabilise.
I'd suggest you unplug the aerial and do a full automatic retune which should clear all previous tuning.
Plug the aerial back in and repeat the retune which will hopefully restore all channels.
It would be a good idea if you checked in the TV Tuning section that you are tuned to the correct UHF channels for Midhurst, these are C48, C35, C36, C29, C34, & C33 in the order PSBs1-3, COMs4-6.
For which channels are on which multiplex see Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview
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Friday, 6 November 2020
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Andrew Mallpress2:26 PM
Horsham
Hi,
I have just retuned (Midhurst transmitter), following advice that ITV4 is moving from Ch24 to Ch25.
Have now lost your Channel54 (ITV, Ch4, Ch5, ITV2, ITV3, ITV4, Film4 etc.)
Have repeated the retune several times with no joy. Any thoughts?
My postcode is RH12 3EL.
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Saturday, 7 November 2020
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Chris.SE1:41 AM
Andrew Mallpress:
Unfortunately the UHF channel numbers listed at the very top of the page have not been correctly updated by the site owner of this independent help-site. There are over 1100 transmitters in the UK and quite a few changes were made as part of the 700MHz clearance programme.
The recent retune was as a result of all the programme Logical Channel Numbers (LCNs) from 24 to54 inclusive being moved up one location ie. to 25 to 55.
For the Midhurst transmitter the correct UHF channels are those listed in the table slightly lower down the page under the column 16 Oct 2019
For clarity, these are C48, C35, C36, C29, C34, C33 in the order PSB1/BBC A, PSB2/D3&4, PSB3/BBC B HD, COM4/SDN, COM5/ARQ A, COM6/ARQ B
The programmes & LCNs on each multiplex can be seen at Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview
There is no COM7 or Local multiplexes at Midhurst.
Depending on how you retuned, some programmes may have been place in the 800s range of LCNs.
The best way to deal with restoring everything correctly would be to retune as follows -
Unplug the aerial and do an automatic retune, which should clear all previous tuning as nothing will be found.
(This method doesn't work on all devices and for those a reset ma be required).
Then plug the aerial back in and ideally do a manual retune for the UHF channels just mentioned. If manual tuning isn't possible just to an automatic retune.
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Saturday, 9 January 2021
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David Meager12:23 PM
Petersfield
I live in GU31 4LR Petersfield No,255
I can not receive Freeview Channels 50 &51
Do you transmit these?
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Chris.SE5:43 PM
David Meager:
Hi David, we do not transmit anything, this is an independent helpsite. If you are talking about the LCN channel numbers in your EPG, then see Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview for which channels are on which multiplex.
The two that you mention are on different multiplexes, are you missing others listed on the same multiplexes?
Depending on when you retuned last, channels LCN numbers between 24 & 54 changed in November (much to the anger of a lot of viewers) (see Updates and alerts | Freeview for details).
There is no "Local" multiplex transmitted from Midhurst, and the NI mux is only in Northern Ireland. If any channels on the SDN multiplex are missing then there could be another issue. You shouldn't have any problems receiving the six main multiplexes at your locale if your aerial system is ok.
If you are missing other channels not on the Local or NI muxes, post back with some more detail so we can provide further advice.
PS. Not the best of ideas to post house numbers on a public forum ;)
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Tuesday, 12 January 2021
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Chris10:53 PM
Alton
Finally my signal from Midhurst has returned I discovered today 12 Jan after disappearing on or around 26 Dec (roughly coincident with storm Bella but I cannot be certain of the precise correlation.
Some intermittent reception for first few days.
I assumed my aerial had lost alignment or other failure in the masthead amp (remains possible) but today everything back, high signal strength & quality incl. HD.
2 TVs fed separately from the same aerial, same symptoms on both.
Roof aerial, GU34 2EB.
I have struggled to find out if there was any relevant outage for at least 14 days?
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StevensOnln111:46 PM
Chris: There definitely hasn't been a transmitter outage lasting for 2 weeks, thousands of people would be complaining and it would be all over the local press if there had been. Perhaps something got damaged in the storm which allowed water to get into your aerial system, which has now dried out, causing reception to return?
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Wednesday, 13 January 2021
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Chris.SE4:08 AM
Chris:
I certainly wouldn't rule out what StevensOnln1 says, especially as you suspected it as a possibility, keep an eye on things and see if they get worse when the weather is bad - plenty of rain etc.
However, there is another possibility, are you sure you were tuned to Midhurst during this period? You can pick up several transmitters at your location and predicted reception from Midhurst is not that good except for the BBCA/PASB1 multiplex, although the Freeview predictor and BBC one don't quite agree as the BBC one suggests it's just the D3&4/PSB2 & ArqB/COM6 multiplexes where you might have variable reception!
That said there is an Alton very low power relay transmitter very close to you. Even with the aerial pointing at Midhurst you may well get signals from Alton on a retune if Midhurst signals are down (or even a mix from a variety of transmitters in the wrong (weather) conditions.
Now, Alton is currently listed for Planned Engineering with "Possible service interruptions", what's more it is a relay of Hannington which is also listed for Planned Engineering with "Possible weak signal", so if the relay relies on an off-air signal then it may not receive one if Hannington's signal is that low!
You might also get signals from Crystal Palace, Reigate, Guildford and Rowridge! All less likely as they are in different directions.
Check your aerial is correctly pointing at Midhurst - bearing 127 degrees, slightly E of SE. It's rods should be horizontal. Alton is at a bearing of 155 degrees, almost SSE (but would have rods vertical).
Check in your TV's tuning section which UHF channels it's tuned to for each multiplex.
For Midhurst they are C48, C35, C36, C29, C34, C33 in the order BBCA/PSB1, D3&4/PSB2, BBCB HD/PSB3, SDN/COM4, ArqA/COM5 and ArqB/COM6.
For the Alton relay C41, C44, C47 for PSBs1-3 only.
If you want to check which programmes are on which multiplexes see Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview and note there is no Local or COM7 multiplexes (nor NI & G-MAN) from Midhurst.
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