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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Thursday, 19 April 2018
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Michael3:32 PM
Mike B,
yes it's definitely Midhurst, tbh i've given up with getting my head round it,
thankfully my other aerial is on Crystal Palace and although it's a group A i can still get a good signal on most of the Muxes,i've lost ch 55 & 56 so no extended HD coverage but there's no way i'm forking out on another aerial until they've finished with all the changes.
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Aubrey Holman8:23 PM
I have had no trouble from Midhurst since DTV started (Burgess Hill). Now since March I cannot get
BBC1 BBC2 etc. I think CH48. I have to use BBC1 HD which has no local news
Why is Channel 29 used on Midhurst when it is outside the band of a C/D aerial?
Finally can the MUX/Channel allocation be updated on this publication
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Friday, 20 April 2018
MikeP
2:18 PM
2:18 PM
Michael:
All you need to do is have the aerial changed for a wideband type. That will receive all the current channels being transmitted plus all the foreseeable future ones as such an aerial cover *all* the possible range of channels.
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Michael4:47 PM
MikeP,
i may have to go that route at some point,
i'm concerned that as i'm partially shielded by a hill and large trees a wideband wouldn't give me enough gain,
especially on the local mux @43kw
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Charles10:33 PM
Horsham
I phoned up the Freeview helpline and because they could not figure out why I was able to get channel 29 but 33 and try a couple of other things I got put through to the home support team who are sending out an engineer for free in the next week. Will see what can be found and see where it leads to.
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Charles's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 22 April 2018
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Charles10:10 AM
Horsham
Interestingly this morning I can now get channel 33 albeit only with signal quality between 24% to 35% and most of the time since doing a manual retune for channel 33 the picture only slightly breaks up every now and again which is not surprising.
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Charles's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Pete Forman11:01 AM
Yesterday I retuned my Panasonic DMR-HWT130 to see if the Midhurst engineering work on 18 April had helped. There is no change. I still cannot record any of the channels from PSB3 (BBC B: most of the HD plus Film4+1).
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MikeP
12:43 PM
12:43 PM
Pete Forman:
A number of people have complained that their Panasonic device will not record. I understand that Panasonic are aware of this problem but have not issued any solution as yet.
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Monday, 23 April 2018
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Peter Simpson8:53 AM
Pete Forman:
Hi Pete,
I had the response below from Panasonic last Friday, 26th April. I'm going to ask for a fix timeline but don't expect to hear anything specific!
Regards, Peter
Panasonic Response:
"In response, please note that due to the complexity of this case, the situation is still being investigated . Please rest assured that as soon as we have a solution, we will contact you back. We appreciate your patience and understanding regarding this matter."
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Pete Forman11:21 AM
Peter Simpson:
If you have Panasonic's ear you might point them at a similar problem. In December last year a number of Panasonic owners reported that they could not record BBC4 HD. I do not know all of the transmitters were involved but they cannot have included Midhurst as we do not get COM 7 & 8. Fenham, Darvel and Fenton were cited. Bluebell Hill started having problems with BBC4 HD after its January retune..
Panasonic HDD Recorder DMR-HW100 - WILL NOT RECORD! | AVForums
The problem went away (I hesitate to say it was fixed) with a transmitter retune on 11th January.
Panasonic HDD Recorder DMR-HW100 - WILL NOT RECORD! | Page 2 | AVForums
Bluebell Hill started working late January, round about the 25th.
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