Full Freeview on the Heathfield (East Sussex, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Heathfield (East Sussex, England) transmitter which serves 170,000 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 Heathfield (East Sussex, England) mast?
Heathfield transmitter - Heathfield transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 29/04/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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 Heathfield (East 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 Heathfield 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 Heathfield (East 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 Heathfield transmitter?
BBC South East Today 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Tunbridge Wells TN1 1QQ, 17km north (6°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Maidstone ME14 5NZ, 41km north-northeast (31°)
to ITV Meridian (East) region - 36 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian plus Oxford
How will the Heathfield (East Sussex, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 19 Jul 2018 | |||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | W T | W T | W T | K T | |||
| C29 | _local | _local | _local | _local | |||||
| C40 | SDN | ||||||||
| C41 | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | BBCA | |||||
| C42 | SDN | SDN | SDN | ||||||
| C43 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C44 | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | D3+4 | |||||
| C46 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C47 | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||||
| C49tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||
| C52tv_off | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | |||
| C64 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
| C67 | 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 30 May 12 and 13 Jun 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 100kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2* | (-18dB) 1.6kW | |
| Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-20dB) 1000W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Heathfield transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldMonday, 18 June 2012
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Tina1:06 PM
Crowborough
I don't have a booster. any other ideas?
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Tina's: mapT's Freeview map terrainT's terrain plot wavesT's frequency data T's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
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paul2:42 AM
Eastbourne
hi my Arial is facing heathfeld now. get all the channel signal and quality is 10 .but not c42 . that for itv 3 itv2+1 5* and five 5usa etc please advise.cant you boost the single pls on c42 . bn20 8rn thank you
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paul's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jb388:34 AM
paul: Ch42 (ITV3 etc) is operating on very low power (100wats) until the 27th of this month and so reception will be poor when compared to the other muxes operating on 4Kw. Unfortunately there isn't really anything that you can do but wait until that date when the situation will be rectified.
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Ron Parr11:33 AM
Tunbridge Wells
Ron Parr-Frant
There is a communal aerial for both digital and satellite reception.The aerial is located well above the roofline and the dish is a 2 metre one and is wall mounted. After the switchover, I carried out the retuning on two Panasonic and one Sony dvd recorders and an LG HD tv all equipped with freeview.The result was that I got everything apart from BVD channels 41 and 44.Can anyone suggest a solution or should I wait for the next switch later this month.HELP!!!
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Ron's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
HEATHFIELD transmitter - Over the next week Heathfield main transmitter: no analogue TV, TV (digital) working normally, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) working normally. [DUK]
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HEATHFIELD transmitter - Over the next week Heathfield main transmitter: TV (analogue) working normally, TV (digital) working normally, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) working normally. [DUK]
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Chris
7:29 PM
Hailsham
7:29 PM
Hailsham
I and others I know use the Heathfield transmitter, and we were confused why we could pick up nearly every channel (even though we only have a cheap in house Ariel) except ITV3 (which we like), this page explains why, and provides good news that we should have it by the end of the month! So thank you all for the information!
It is a little odd that ITV3 is stuck with ITV2+1 and a bunch of adult channels.
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Chris's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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KMJ,Derby8:30 PM
Chris: ITV3 used to be on PSB2, but changed places with Channel Five so that C5 would be transmitted from all masts. I think that after the SDN mux was added, as promised, to the Ferryside relay it was realised just how much it would cost to repeat the exercise at all the relays in order to give the required coverage of C5. ITV4 was also displaced from PSB2 to make room for ITV1+1.
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Dupree9:13 PM
I still can't get freeview hd reception. Is this the fault of my aerial?
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jb3811:38 PM
Dupree: Its quite impossible for anyone to be able to offer assistance when you havent mentioned your location (post code or one from nearby) nor whatever you are trying to receive Freeview HD on, as either its not being transmitted as yet (dependant on location) or its your receiving device that is not capable of picking it up by only having a DVB-T tuner fitted and not a DVB-T2 type which is necessary for HD reception.
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