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: Off the air due to a fault from 20 Nov 05:50 until 20 Nov 05:53. . 
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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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Sunday, 18 March 2012
Paul: The current "digital switchover" is for terrestrial television only. It has nothing to do with radio and nothing to do with DAB.
The design of some receivers leaves a lot to be desired. This is not specifically confined to the "cheapo" sets.
There will always be instances where signals from adjacent transmitters overlap. Some boxes just go with the first one they find.
Transmitters do broadcast their "Network" name, but not all receivers display it. However, most receivers display the UHF channel that is being received and this information is usually given on the signal strength screen.
In some cases where incorrect transmitter(s) are being picked up, it's possible to remove the aerial lead for part of the scan to get it to do what you want it to do.
It is possible to do this with the caveat that you will have to manually add a couple as they are mixed in with those of Heathfield.
Midhurst's channels are 55, 61, 58 (HD), 62, 59, 50
Heathfield's are 29 to 54 now and 41 to 52 after its DSO.
So, if your receiver shows UHF channel numbers when it's scanning, start it off with the lead unplugged and connect it after it's scanned 54 to avoid Heathfield. You will then need to manually add 50 (Yesterday etc) and probably 55 (BBC standard definition services).
If your receiver doesn't give channel numbers, but only a percentage, then the scan is likely to be from channels 21 to 69, so plug in around 71%. Then manually add 50 and 55 as explained above.
Whilst this may be clumbersome, it might be more attractive than letting it put Midhurst in the 800s and you having to swap each one.
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Monday, 19 March 2012
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Martin Beenham6:38 AM
Darren Ellis: Sorry to hear you have lost all freeview channels. My Humax 8000T autotuned all channels on 14 March from GU336HB at 95% signal and 100% quality therefore it seems possible as jb38 suggests that your receiver has a hardware fault. Another possibility is that you don't have latest software. For comparison mine is:
H/W version NEO Rev 1.0
S/W version PGTTF 2.00.01
Loader version H 3.08
If you decide to bin your Humax and it has an 80GB drive I would be interested in cannibalising it for the drive!
Regards,
Martin
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Paul8:57 AM
I know the c/o does not affect digital radio, it just seems strange that everything has suddenly picked up in the area. We have three dab sets in the house (inc one by Pace) and of the lot the Roberts portable works the best. This area has always been in a blackspot for television as well as radio, the improvement in DAB is welcome but will not influence me in going down that road away from FM until things improve.
As to tuning televisions, I have three sets and one digital HDD box, so pulling leads and manually adding programs later is a difficult process. I'll stick to shuffling channels around as I only have to do it once.
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pete3:23 PM
Steyning
Ilive less than a mile from the steyning booster the bbc channels from the first switchover are great but the channels from the second switchover itv1 etc are very bad if there at all don't understand why this should be ?
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pete's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
pete: Is your aerial directed at the Steyning transmitter (your aerial will be vertical) or is it on Midhurst (aerial will be horizontal)?
If your aerial is on Midhurst, then you shouldn't be tuned to Steyning and its existance will not improve your reception from Midhurst.
It is worth confirming that BBC and ITV1 are tuned to the transmitter to which the aerial faces.
From Midhurst, BBC is on C55 and ITV1 on C61.
From Steyning, BBC is on C59 and ITV1 on C50.
Therefore, when it is scanning, Midhurst is the first BBC signal (of the two transmitters) and Steyning is the first ITV1 signal. I wonder, therefore, if this could have resulted in your main ITV1 signal being tuned to Steyning when in fact it should be Midhurst.
You should be able to confirm either way by viewing the signal strength screen whilst on each channel; most receivers give this information.
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pete5:04 PM
Steyning
yeah the ariel is horizontal the steyning & midhurst transmitters are in virtually the same direction from home ill check the strength when i get home
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pete's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Darren Ellis6:33 PM
Liphook
Martin
Thanks for your info re; Humax 8000T
You're pretty close to us (Liss) so it looks like we've a problem with our Humax not accepting something from the new transmissions (8K mode?)
Our Hardware version is NEO REV 1.0
Software is PGTTF2.00.02
Loader Version h3.08
Update Date 18Aug2005
Would appear we've a slightly later software version than yours but imagine that wouldn't make a difference.
If we get rid of it should we let you know on here?
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Darren's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Martin Beenham11:54 PM
Darren
Please give me a call, 01420538468 before you bin it.
Thanks,
Martin
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Monday, 26 March 2012
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peter behrens4:20 PM
Burgess Hill
dear sir/madam
we are in burgess hill rh15 8et area.
last night 25th and today 26th we seem not tobe able to get bbc2,itv1 and c4. we retune they stay for a while and then go ?
can you help with any reason for this ?
thank you for your help
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KMJ,Derby5:49 PM
peter behrens: If you have BBC1 alright, but BBC2 comes and goes it suggests that you are receiving and storing channels from two or more transmitters. Is there a BBC2 in the 800s of the channel list that works correctly? If the aerial is pointing to Midhurst it is likely that Heathfield signals are being picked up from behind the aerial, as these channels are on a lower frequency they are stored by the receiver, the Midhurst channels being stored in the 800's or ignored completely. In the present weather conditions, when out of area signals are traveling further than normal it is also likely that you found signals from other transmitters. As is the nature of such reception, these signals tend to fade in and out, resulting in them being present when you happen to do a channel scan, but absent a short time later. The original loss of reception which prompted you to re-tune could have been caused by the powerful Mendip transmitter swamping the Midhurst signal for a time. Ideally you should not re-tune at such times as the reception will return to normal when the out of area signal fades out. Do a manual tune of the Midhurst frequencies, if the receiver permits this. Otherwise start the scan with the aerial unplugged, plug it back in before C50 to store the Midhurst channels.
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