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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, England) mast?
Whitehawk Hill transmitter - Whitehawk Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 22/04/2024 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
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, 13 October 2023
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Chris.SE2:29 PM
Clare McNeil :
Hi Clare. I can't find any faults listed and it's not been listed for Planned Engineering either, so it is most likely due to the recent severe Tropospheric Ducting that occurred with the recent high pressure.
It was unusually intense on this occasion. As you probably know it can be quite variable, come and go within seconds, minutes or hours. It doesn't necessarily affect all multiplexes at the same time or at all and not everyone will be affected, it will depend on location. At times it can wipe out your reception.
People in different parts of the UK and Europe have been experiencing problems.
Auto-retuning is probably not the best idea when you've lost signal or it's badly pixellated be it due to weather, engineering or faults etc. as it can often clear your correct tuning. You just have to be patient and wait for conditions to change, you can't tune to signals that aren't there or have bad interference.
There is still some of this "tropo" around, so if channels are missing from your EPG, then the best option is to try a manual retune for the multiplex UHF channels that you are missing.
See Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview for a full list of which TV channel is on which multiplex.
Whitehawk Hill's channels are (in multiplex order) PSB1/BBCA on C48, PSB2/D3&4 on C35, PSB3/BBCB HD on C36, COM4/SDN on C32, COM5/ARQA on C34, COM6/ARQB on C33.
The LOCAL MUX/L-BTN is on C40.
If you hover on each of the aforementioned channel numbers, it'll give you the frequency if you need to know those.
If it's just the BBC SD channels you are missing, try a manual retune on UHF C48. If it's the HD ones, try UHF C36.
If conditions in your locale are still bad, you may not be successful on any try, you just have to try again.
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Clare McNeil
2:44 PM
2:44 PM
Hi Chris.SE
Thank you so much for your help. I think the retune caused
loss of channels. Wished I left it alone but I didn't
know what could happen, live and learn I guess. I think we
will have to wait, hopefully not too long. The weather here
is bad so as you say it may be due to that. Once again many thanks
for your input and help.
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Chris.SE3:54 PM
Clare McNeil :
No problem, hope you get all your channels back soon.
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Clare McNeil
4:04 PM
4:04 PM
Hi Chris.SE
I have tried manually tuning in Freeview BBC 1, 2 and
BBC News 231 but they don't show these numbers don't show up.. Do you know
how the channels take to return. Sorry for sounding
a tad stupid at this I am not techno minded. Many thanks.
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Chris.SE4:35 PM
Clare McNeil :
:) Hi. Your post has appeared 4 times - that's because you thought it hadn't posted when this site can sometimes take over a minute or so before a post appears (I think it's the spam & swear filter working!!).
Not to worry.
First have a look in your TV Programme Channel numbers in the 800s, they may have appeared there.
Did you go into the TV Tuning section and find the Manual Tune option? It should give you a selection/list of UHF channel numbers.
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Clare McNeil
5:12 PM
5:12 PM
Hi Chris.SE
I wondered why it appeared 4 times. We went into
Manual Tune option and BBC channels are not
listed. The weather is supposed to improve tomorrow
hopefully we they will return then. Thanks for
getting back to me. I appreciate it.
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Chris.SE5:22 PM
Clare McNeil :
Hi there. That's very odd because the UHF channel numbers should always appear listed irrespective of what's been transmitted, or what the weather does etc. In theory you can tell it to tune to a uhf channel that isn't Whitehawk Hill !! Not that you'd necessarily get anything, but that's beside the point.
You did look for UHF channels 48 and 36? If the interference is still bad they just won't get a signal, but it should try to tune.
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Clare McNeil
5:31 PM
5:31 PM
Hi Chris.SE
The TV is quite old and we have been thinking
of getting a new one. I think this will push us to get
a new one, especially if BBC doesn't come back soon.
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Chris.SE6:05 PM
Clare McNeil :
Hi. As you've said you aren't "techno minded" I've tried to explain is as none a technical way as possible.
I don't mind trying to help further if you need it, but to be clear a new set wouldn't pick up or tune to signals that aren't there or have very bad interference.
What make and full model of set is it?
What uhf channel numbers are you seeing when in Manual tune?
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Clare McNeil
6:27 PM
6:27 PM
Hi Chris SE
Is it ok if I get back to you tomorrow, it's
my parents and they are very keen on getting a new one
This one is 15+ years old. I will pass on everything you have
said. The manual tuning is only showing channels 22-66.
Not showing channels 1,2 and 231 Freeview that is. Maybe
it's best to wait for the channels to come back. It's a Sony Bravia
have no idea what model it is, sorry.
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