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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Friday, 11 October 2019
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Chris.SE3:50 AM
Richard watts:
Can't find any reports of current transmitter faults, is the problem continuing?
There is a Midhurst DAB page btw - Midhurst (West Sussex, England) DAB transmitter | free and easy
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Wednesday, 16 October 2019
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Finn1:07 PM
When should we expect today's planned Freeview changes on the Midhurst mast to complete?
Currently, an automatic re-tune only gives me 22 TV channels and 16 radio channels. It only picks up CH 35 (with extremely poor signal - strength 37-38%, quality 10-30%) and CH 48 (with usually good quality (strength 72-74%, quality 100%).
Trying a manual re-tune against CH 36 gives me nothing, so I've lost my 6 HD channels 101-105+204. Am I too impatient? Do I need a new aerial?
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Chris.SE3:36 PM
Finn:
I would expect the changes to be complete by now. Yes you probably do need a new aerial.
A group K rather than a wideband (better sensitivity as there are no temporary COMs 7&8 from Midhurst). If you give us your full postcode or if you put your postcode into About us | Freeview you can see your predicted reception at your location. If any of the multiplexes are not "good" you should definitely go for the Group K.
If you are having issues with the main BBC channels since the retune (and the SDN channels - see About us | Freeview and have retuned it is possible that your aerial is an old C/D group that is not able to receive the new channels sufficiently well, and it may need replacing. You can get free help if you do not have Satellite or Cable by contacting Freeview on 0808-100-0288 see Important changes to Freeview TV signals Important changes to Freeview | Freeview and also see the FAQs on that page in case they may help. I'd be inclined to egg it a bit and say you are getting occasional pixelation on all the channels you can get.
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Garry smith6:47 PM
Hi, i have had to re-tune my freeview from midhurst transmitter, please could someone tell me why i have now lost channel 48 true entertainment, i have also lost channel 8 and 61 too, i do like true entertainment, i have re-tuned several times but have still lost them.
Thank you
G smith
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Chris.SE7:12 PM
Garry smith:
If you had True Entertainment (LCN48) and LCN8 (a local station) right up until this current retune, then you must have been picking up a Local Multiplex from another transmitter as no local multiplexes are broadcast from Midhurst - a manual tune might be needed to get it BUT you'll need to know which one it was. Sony moved a number of it's channels some time ago to Local multiplexes.
LCN61 is Sony Channel+1 - see Channel listings | Freeview and is now only on the G-MAN local mux so I doubt you've been getting that for some time.
If you provide a full postcode we might be able to advise on tuning.
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Finn7:21 PM
Chris.SE:
Thank you very much for your suggestions. Timing couldn't be worse as I'm just about to go away for 10 days and had quite a few recordings scheduled. The offending device is a Humax HDR FOX-T2 PVR. Weirdly, my HDHomeRun tuners that run off the same aerial, albeit from a different outlet and with a signal booster, have picked up the changes after a few rescans and I can record off those (eg 101 is represented through tt8qam256:594MHz-17540, which suggest channel 36, ie the new one).
I guess I need to look into a new Group K aerial and/or an extra signal booster when I get back. Thanks for your help.
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Thursday, 17 October 2019
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Charles9:50 PM
Horsham
When I moved to Southwater in 2015 the TV reception was very flaky and got worse when it rained but eventually I got a wideband aerial installed which improved things a lot but it was still at times flaky and would be bad when it rained. When the first phase of the 700Mhz happened and I retuned I instantly noticed an improvement for the channels and when it rained the reception did not drop for the muxes that had moved over to the new channels. The channels that remained on the 700Mhz range though were still affected with bad weather. Now that the remaining channels have been moved out of the 700Mhz range all my channels work absolutely fine in bad weather. Not sure what was causing the reception to drop in bad weather but a result for me!
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Chris.SE10:27 PM
Charles:
The lower frequency channels will tend to travel a greater distance for the same power so you tend in general to get them with slightly higher strength, so when that is reduced by rain, it doesn't drop to a point where your signal is on the "cliff-edge" and pictures start pixelating.
You maybe in a slightly marginal location, if you give a full postcode we'll be able to make constructive comment on that by examining your predicted reception give by the DigitalUK checker About us | Freeview
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Saturday, 19 October 2019
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Charles6:12 AM
Horsham
Chris.SE
That is good to know and I have read (not sure if true) that when trees get wet then this can affect the signal. Now when I observe the signal quality and strength it holds strong when there is rain where as before you would gradually see it degrade to the point of no signal coming through.
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Chris.SE9:07 AM
Charles:
Anything that is in the "line-of-sight" to the transmitter could affect the signal. If you have trees in the way, they can indeed affect the signal, especially when wet.
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