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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Monday, 6 November 2023
Transmitter engineering
5:10 AM
5:10 AM
Whitehawk Hill transmitter - Whitehawk Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 06/11/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Thursday, 7 December 2023
Transmitter engineering
1:50 PM
1:50 PM
WHITEHAWK HILL transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 7 Dec 10:55 until 7 Dec 11:08. . FM: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 7 Dec 11:06 until 7 Dec 11:08. . [BBC]
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Friday, 8 December 2023
Transmitter engineering
10:49 AM
10:49 AM
WHITEHAWK HILL transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 8 Dec 10:04. Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 7 Dec 10:55 until 7 Dec 11:08. . FM: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 8 Dec 10:05. Off the air [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
2:21 PM
2:21 PM
WHITEHAWK HILL transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 8 Dec 10:04 until 8 Dec 11:17. Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 7 Dec 10:55 until 7 Dec 12:18. . FM: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 8 Dec 10 [BBC]
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Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Transmitter engineering
4:58 PM
4:58 PM
WHITEHAWK HILL transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 8 Dec 10:04 until 8 Dec 11:17. . FM: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 8 Dec 10:05 until 8 Dec 11:17. . [BBC]
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Wednesday, 13 December 2023
Transmitter engineering
11:21 AM
11:21 AM
WHITEHAWK HILL transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 8 Dec 10:04 until 8 Dec 11:17. . [BBC]
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Friday, 15 December 2023
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John Todd6:15 PM
For the last few weeks in North Shoreham, many channels are showing "No signal. Please check your antenna connection" whilst many channels are perfectly OK (so the antenna is connected). Om another television using a separate aerial, the picture is very pixelated.
Both were perfect but suffered this problem at the same time a few weeks ago.
I note on the above information engineering is taking place on Whitehawk Transmitter.
Can I assume this is the problem? As both aerials are having the same problem at the same time, I assume it can only be the transmitter
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Steve Donaldson8:59 PM
John Todd: Whitehawk Hill is not listed by Freeview as having engineering works:
Planned engineering works | Freeview
This doesn't necessarily mean for certain that it isn't, assuming that works can always overrun and perhaps not be listed.
Another possibility, other than transmitter works, is interference by a mobile phone base station and/or mobile handsets/devices in the 700MHz or 800MHz frequency ranges, these frequencies formerly used for TV. Restore TV is the organisation responsible for alleviating such interference. They will provide a free filter to prevent the unwanted mobile signals getting into the TV/set-top box.
If you have an amplifier then the filter should go before it. If the amplifier is on the roof then this will require a special outdoor, waterproof filter. Restore TV should send an engineer to fit this should it apply here.
Details for Restore TV are here: https://restoretv.uk
One of the FAQs relates to having more than one TV. It says they will send more than one filter on request. I don't know whether they will send one filter and ask you to try it on both TVs and get back to them if you need a second, or whether they will send you two filters.
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Saturday, 16 December 2023
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Chris.SE3:29 PM
John Todd:
As you've had this problem for a few weeks and on two separate TVs and aerials, then it's a reasonable assumption that it could be one of the two possibilities Steve has mentioned. It would not surprise me that whatever the engineering work for DAB, it could well have an impact on Freeview transmissions from time to time as you can't work on a mast near the antenna when they're at full power, and this has been an oversight where it's not ended up with a listing for impact on Freeview!
Do check if you've had or should have had a postcard https://restoretv.uk/post…ure/
There is another possibility, that some very local external factors may be the cause, such as a new tall building or scaffolding etc springing up on the line-of-sight to the transmitter. It's unlikely to be things like solar panels, water tanks etc if the aerials aren't in a loft.
BUT just to compound matters for the next couple of days (wouldn't have been the initial problem) and likely to get worse tomorrow, is the presence of some Tropospheric Ducting causing co-channel interference (continental interference in old money) mainly affecting southern parts of the country.
The BBC have issued warnings as well.
This won't necessarily affect all multiplexes or even more than one and the effects could be short - seconds or minutes, or even longer - several hours. It will depend on particular conditions and location at the time.
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Monday, 8 January 2024
Transmitter engineering
10:47 AM
10:47 AM
Whitehawk Hill transmitter - Whitehawk Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 08/01/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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