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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Friday, 14 January 2011
Clare McNeil
9:09 PM
Hove
9:09 PM
Hove
Hi I am not receiving BBC1, BBC2, BBC3 BBC 24h hour news channel properly. I have had an engineer out to ensure my TV is fine. Either I get blocking (no signal) or picture & audio break up. The channels are effected mostly between 8pm -10pm. This has just started last week. Please help can't spend a year watching TV like this. Thank you.
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Sunday, 16 January 2011
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page7:07 PM
mine is the same clare, its been shocking this week, and if you re-tune you lose the channels totally. i hope it will clear up soon.
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Clare McNeil
8:58 PM
Hove
8:58 PM
Hove
Hi Page thank you, I was beginning to think I was the only one. Yesterday & tonight, thankfully, the BBC signal has been OK. Maybe the Whitehawk Hill transmitter engineering works have finished. Hopefully it should be OK now - dare I say it. But I agree this week the BBC signal has been shocking. I will still monitor the situation just in case.
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Monday, 17 January 2011
Clare McNeil: That is what "TV (digital) Possible weak signal" means.
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Clare McNeil
10:53 AM
Hove
10:53 AM
Hove
Hi Brianist, thank you for answering. Can you please tell how long this situation is to continue - "TV (digital) Possible weak signal" please?
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Mike B11:26 AM
Hi - The website clearly states that all is back to normal with Whitehawk today? Can you please confirm this is actually the case as I still cannot get ITV1, Channels 4 & 5, or ITV3 on my system which previously worked fine.
[I'm in Kemp Town with clear line of sight to the transmitter!]
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Hi Brianist, my analogue signal was awful too according to my engineer. I have tweeted you just now, but its hard to get across what you want to say 140 characters. Please may I ask a)Was the poor signal analogue & digital due to the engineering works on Whitehawk Hill Transmitter b) Have those engineering works now finished c) If so will my signal both analogue & digital return to normal service now? d) will you let us know on here if there will further problems? Thank you for your time. I am sorry I am not technically minded at all - I just wanted to watch my TV like I did b4 with good signal. Thank you.
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Whitehawk will be on reduced power until the 21st in order to accomodate some engineering. then there's a bit more work happening on the 25th (affecting radio and channel 5).
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Mike B12:55 PM
Brighton
Thanks Alex
Can you tell us what the reduced power is affecting e.g. all digital signals, ITV or what?
It doesn't help when the webpage reports:
"This transmitter has no reported problems"
I could be spending a fortune getting an engineer out when I don't have a problem :-?
Cheers
Mike
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Thursday, 3 February 2011
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Paul George8:26 PM
I moved into the BN3 area in October and have had a perfect analogue and digital signal up until about two weeks ago. Since then analogue Channels 4 and 5 suddenly both have a lot of interference. I bought a new freeview recorder today and can now no longer receive ITV1, Channel 4, Channel 5, ITV2, etc. on digital. I tried reconnecting my old freeview box and they have gone from there too. Will this problem be rectified or is there something I need to do (I've tried the obvious reinstalling, etc. but this doesn't seem to have done any good).
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