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 29/05/2023 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 not one of the extended Freeview HD (COM7 and COM8) transmitters, it does not provide these high definition (HD) channels: .
If you want to watch these HD channels, either use Freesat HD, or move your TV aerial must point to one of the 30 Full Freeview HD transmitters. For more information see the want to know which transmitters will carry extra Freeview HD? 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)
Are you trying to watch these 0 Freeview HD channels?
The Heathfield (East Sussex, England) mast is not one of the extended Freeview HD (COM7 and COM8) transmitters, it does not provide these high definition (HD) channels: .
If you want to watch these HD channels, either use Freesat HD, or move your TV aerial must point to one of the 30 Full Freeview HD transmitters. For more information see the want to know which transmitters will carry extra Freeview HD? 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 (5°)
to BBC South East region - 45 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.7m homes 2.7%
from Maidstone ME14 5NZ, 40km 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 |
Local transmitter maps
HEATHFIELD Freeview HEATHFIELD DAB Heathfield TV region BBC South East Meridian (East micro region)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 withheldFriday, 8 June 2018
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Jeff Klepper3:07 PM
StevensOnln1:
strength box 10
tv near top range no number given
but since found out problems at the Heathfield transmitter
if I use tv's no problem but if boxes used problems
I have 2 tv and two Panasonic boxes
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MikeB7:13 PM
Jeff: Panasonic's are know to have sensitive tuners, so I am not surprised they are breaking up - your tv is perhaps slightly less sensitive, etc. You need to kill that signal level, no matter what you might think is going on with the transmitter, which probably has nothing to do with your problem.
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Saturday, 9 June 2018
MikeP
4:11 PM
4:11 PM
Jeff:
Further to that said by MikeB, you need to have around 80% signal strength as nearer to 100% will overload the tuner of any TV or box.
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Thursday, 21 June 2018
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John 6:01 PM
Live in Haywards Heath and for the last couple of days the hd channels have been heavily pixelated and breaking up. Non hd are fine and tv menu showing 100% signal strength. Is there a localised issue.
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StevensOnln16:18 PM
John : 100% signal strength is too high and can lead to the TV's tuner being overloaded. Take a look at the article titled "Too much of a good thing" on this website and try an attenuator.
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Wednesday, 27 June 2018
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Geoff Cole8:16 AM
This morning 27 June 2018 I have no reception on any BBC channels non-HD from Heathfield or Midhurst. All other channels are working as normal although BBC HD channels are breaking up.
You say there are no problems but if it were to be a problem with my equipment I would expect similar problems on all channels.
I live in Southwater, somewhat between Midhurst and Heathfield transmitters and worse, in a hollow. So reception can be iffy although the recent retuning has improved the situation hugely to the point that we can now use DTT more regularly rather than only satellite. However the weather seems to affect it. But reception has been very good over recent weeks. But not today.
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peter martin8:32 AM
Hailsham
I live in Arlington bn27 3ra, the other side of Hailsham. Last night (26-06-18) I suffered no signal on around half of the stations that I normally have good reception on. The aerial is in it's normal position, I've cleaned the plugs & sockets of my TV aerial with switch cleaner, re-scanned & have now lost about half the stations. Is there a transmitter problem? Peter
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MikeP
4:43 PM
4:43 PM
Peter Martin:
No problems reported at the transmitter. However, the hot weather is causing tropospheric lift whereby signal from other transmitters travel further than usual and cause interference, a well known and documented problem.
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Alan Clark10:08 PM
Eastbourne
Geoff Cole: We had the same trouble this morning here in Hampden Park BN22 9BX, only affected the BBC channels.
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Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Transmitter engineering
6:03 AM
6:03 AM
HEATHFIELD transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:00 today, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:00 today. [BBC]
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