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This transmitter has no current reported problems

The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Hannington (Hampshire, England) transmitter. Click to recheck

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The symbol shows the location of the Hannington (Hampshire, England) transmitter which serves 470,000 homes.

Other maps:Hannington DABHannington AM/FMHannington regionBBC SouthMeridian (Thames Valley micro region)

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

Radiation patterns withheld

What do the colours on the map mean?

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.


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Which Freeview channels does the Hannington transmitter broadcast?

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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.

MuxAerial positionFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 horizontal max
C45 (666.0MHz)362m64QAM 8K 2/3
24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2		50,000W
Channel icons
1 BBC One South, 2 BBC Two England, 7 BBC Three, 9 BBC Four, 70 CBBC Channel, 71 CBeebies, 80 BBC News, 81 BBC Parliament, 301 BBC Red Button 1, plus 12 others

PSB2
D3+4
 horizontal max
C42 (642.0MHz)362m64QAM 8K 2/3
24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2		50,000W
Channel icons
3 ITV (Meridian (Thames Valley micro region)), 4 Channel 4 South ads, 5 Channel 5 Part Network ads, 6 ITV 2, 13 Channel 4+1 South ads, 14 More 4, 28 E4, 33 ITV +1 (Meridian south coast),

PSB3
BBCB
 horizontal max
C39+ (618.2MHz)362m256QAM 32KE 2/3
40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4		50,000W
Channel icons
101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 ITV HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 303 BBC Red Button HD, plus 1 others

COM4
SDN
 horizontal -3dB
C41 (634.0MHz)362m64QAM 8K 3/4
27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2		25,000W
Channel icons
10 ITV 3, 20 G.O.L.D. (not free), 25 Dave ja vu, 26 Home (not free), 27 ITV 2 +1, 30 5*, 31 5USA, 34 ESPN UK (not free), 38 Quest, 39 The Zone, 44 Channel 5 +1, 72 CITV, plus 21 others

COM5
ArqA
 horizontal -3dB
C44 (658.0MHz)359m64QAM 8K 3/4
27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2		25,000W
Channel icons
11 PICK TV, 12 Dave, 17 Really, 29 E4+1, 32 Movie Mix, 46 Challenge, 48 Food Network, 82 Sky News, 87 Community Channel, 302 BBC Red Button 2, plus 9 others

COM6
ArqB
 horizontal -3dB
C47 (682.0MHz)359m64QAM 8K 3/4
27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2		25,000W
Channel icons
15 Film 4, 18 4Music, 19 Yesterday, 21 VIVA, 24 ITV 4, 41 Sky Sports 1 (not free), 42 Sky Sports 2 (not free), 47 4seven, 83 Al Jazeera English, 85 RT English , plus 22 others



Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Hannington transmitter?


BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 46km south-southwest
to BBC South region - 39 masts.

ITV Meridian News 0.5m homes 1.8%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 48km south
to ITV Meridian (Thames Valley) region - 9 masts.
Thames Valley opt-out from Meridian (South). All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian+Oxford

How will the Hannington (Hampshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

years1984-971997-981998-20122012-132013-182013-18
aerial groupEEEB E KB E KW
600C32com7
C34com8
C35C5C5
C39BBC1BBC1BBC1+BBCB+BBCB+BBCB
C40+A
C41+DSDNSDNSDN
C42ITVITVITVD3+4D3+4D3+4
C43+2
C44+CArqAArqAArqA
C45BBC2BBC2BBC2BBCABBCABBCA
C46+B
C47ArqBArqBArqB
700C501
C51local
800C66C4C4C4

orange background for multiplexes names moregreen background for transmission frequencieslilac background for power levels in watts800MHz band: 4G mobile to start in 2013700MHz band: possible 4G in 2019 more600MHz band: new or moved digital TV services more
Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W
Italics for analogue, digital switchover was Wednesdays 8th February and 22nd February 2012.

  • Ofcom have projected that a local television service for Reading could use an Interleaved Frequency on the Hannington transmitter using C51
  • Ofcom have projected that a local television service for Basingstoke could use an Interleaved Frequency on the Hannington transmitter using C51
  • COM7, COM8 projected for 2013-16. COM9 UK-wide SFN

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4 250kW
Analogue 5(-6.2dB) 60kW
com7, com8, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 50kW
SDN, ARQA, ARQB(-10dB) 25kW
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*(-11dB) 20kW
Mux C*, Mux D*(-14dB) 10kW

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Hannington transmitter area

Aug 1958-Jan 1992Southern Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992Television South (TVS)
Jan 1993-Dec 2006Meridian
Dec 2006-Feb 2009ITV Thames Valley
Feb 2009-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Hannington was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.


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Transmitter engineering
Saturday 22 September 2012 4:56AM
HANNINGTON transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 00:14 on 20 Sep to 00:25 on 20 Sep HD Digital TV Off Air from 00:35 on 20 Sep to 00:41 on 20 Sep [BBC] nington Transmitter works 20th September 2012: Engineering transmitter work will take place between 00:01hrs and 06:00hrs. TV services that will be disrupted: Analogue services - n/a Digital services - PSB1, PSB2, PSB3, COM4, COM5 and COM6 will be subject to periods of shutdown. [DUK] Over the next week Hannington main transmitter: TV (digital) Liable to interruption, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) working normally. [DUK]
Transmitter engineering
Saturday 22 September 2012 5:11AM
HANNINGTON transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 00:14 on 20 Sep to 00:25 on 20 Sep HD Digital TV Off Air from 00:35 on 20 Sep to 00:41 on 20 Sep [BBC] Over the next week Hannington main transmitter: TV (digital) Liable to interruption, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) working normally. [DUK]
Transmitter engineering
Saturday 22 September 2012 5:11AM
HANNINGTON transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 00:14 on 20 Sep to 00:25 on 20 Sep HD Digital TV Off Air from 00:35 on 20 Sep to 00:41 on 20 Sep [BBC] Over the next week Hannington main transmitter: TV (digital) Liable to interruption, Radio (analogue) working normally, Radio (digital) working normally. [DUK]
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Simon
Monday 24 September 2012 6:21PM
I'm Highclere: RG209RY 6 miles from Hannington, loft, log periodic, direct line of sight, 100% signal quality most of the time. Suddenly at weekend I lost ITV1, ITV4 etc. on mux 2 and my Humax 9200T has retuned, very unhelpfully, to Crystal Palace which is "blocky". (Amazing I get a picture at all from CP at that range). Done another retune and it's still finding CP in pref. to Hann. again on mux 2 and tuning to that. So my question is, is this a Hannington "Engineering works" and/or glitch issue or an issue with my Humax trying to be too clever and messing me up. Thoughts welcome :-)
p.s. The manual tuning process on this beast is an absolute nightmare, since it doesn't give you the ability to choose between two or more signals from different Tx's it just picks the first one it finds.
J
jb38
Monday 24 September 2012 9:28PM
Simon: Are you sure that its a 9200T? as it only has an automatic "software" updating facility and not channel updating.

However, you should try removing the aerial and follow this by carrying out an auto-tune for purposes of blanking the tuners memory, then once complete reconnect the aerial and on the options of the left hand side of the screen select "installation" (password 0000) and then select "manual" tune.

You will see a channel number entered in the bar on the top, click the right arrow on the large centre selection button and the channel numbers will now appear, then using the up down arrows run up or down the list to Ch45 and press OK and the number will then be in the box, immediately it does the signal strength / quality of that channel will appear and so using the down arrow select and press search.

Once done select to store.

Repeat this process until all five muxes from Hannington are captured and stored.

Channels used by Hannington: 45(BBC) - 42(ITV) - 41(ITV3) - 44(ArqA) - 47(ArqB)
J
jb38
Monday 24 September 2012 9:37PM
Simon: Meant also to add, that whilst in the installation menu you should disable the auto software update facility as well as the regular same, that being the one that has 4.00 as the default setting.
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Stephen Harding
Monday 1 October 2012 11:40AM
Can anyone tell me the DVB service IDs for the Hannington transmitter?
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Nick Bayes
Monday 1 October 2012 2:04PM Andover
Roof aerial aimed at Hannington. Sometime in September I lost all HD channels on my LG TV built-in Freeview HD. No amount of retuning will bring them back!!

Tried manually retuning and all channels show signal strenth of circa 98% & quality of circa 100% except channel 39!! Signal strength varies between 0% & 58% and quality 0% & circa 2%.

Prior to this I was receiving all HD channels perfectly. Checked the aerial and it does not seem to have moved.

Spoken to LG and they think it is down to the transmitter, which is undergoing engineering work.
E
Eleanor Flintoff
Monday 22 October 2012 2:01PM
I live in Reading and my freeview has been on the blink for about 3 weeks now. it is so bad we cant watch it. it's really crackly and cuts out all the time or has no sound. Have checked wires and unplugged/re-plugged everything and it has no effect. Is there something wrong with the transmitter at the moment. We're east of central Reading.
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David
Friday 26 October 2012 9:28PM Haslemere
I have recently started to get additional channels to the limited selection from the Haslemere repeater. My TV labels these channels 800, 801, etc. which are poorly received BBC MuxA channels on UHF channel 45. The only near transmitter with MuxA on 45 horizontal polarized is Hannington. It seems unlikely that I am receiving borderline transmission from Hannington as my aerial is pointing North from Camelsdale and is vertical Polarized. But where else could the signal it be from? could the polarization be rotated by glancing reflection from a hillside?
Dave Lindsay
Friday 26 October 2012 10:18PM
David: Possibly.

However the COM channels (those that don't broadcast from the Haslemere relay) are at half-power to the PSBs from Hannington. Also, so they can get more shopping channels in, they use a less robust mode. This is akin to being more fragile than the PSBs. So don't get too excited.

Unfortunately the Haslemere relay uses the same three channels as Crystal Palace uses for its COMs which "may" have otherwise have been available.

If you decide to have a shot at Hannington, then without doubt, you need a Group B aerial:

www.aerialsandtv.com link icon Hannington Transmitter

Reception could be intermittent because you're receiving over the brow of the hill.

Haslemere relays Midhurst which carries BBC South and ITV Meridian Southampton. Hannington carries BBC South and ITV Meridian North. "If" you can receive the COM channels from Hannington, you could combine that aerial with the current one to give you the ITV Meridian Southampton and the COMs.

It really is a long shot and I'm not an aerial installer so I wouldn't like to comment on your chances other than to say that you will be lucky if you do get them!
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sean
Sunday 18 November 2012 8:04PM
Hi,Sean here, I'm experiencing problems receiving TV from Hannington i have checked that my Ariel is working which it is and its pointing the right direction too and i have also contacted one of my friends who is good with this sort of stuff and he cant see why it inst working either as all i get on the TV is sound and the picture dosen't come through properly my neighbors are also experiencing this problem if anyone has a soullution to this please let me know and i woul be verry great full.
M
Mr T
Tuesday 20 November 2012 1:32PM
Hi,

We seem to have had all our BBCA (multiplex) channels become heavily pixelated and the sound badly affected too, such that the whole program stutters to a freeze, since 17th Nov. I'll check with the neighbours, but assume they are not experiencing these problems, as no engineering reports have been posted. Could it be that our 3 year old antenna has developed a faulty connection affecting its attenuation only on this one multiplex(eg water ingress)? I don't want to call in the aerial guys and be charged a call out fee for nothing.

Many thanks
J
jamie stevens
Tuesday 20 November 2012 3:23PM Havant
SEAN-

Hi,

The fact that your neighbour has the same problem rules out any issue with your tv.

Is the problems still current?

Is the sound perfect or distorted?

Is the problem affecting more than one tv in the house?

what is your location?

thanks

Jamie
M
madick
Tuesday 20 November 2012 11:50PM
Sean

In addition to Jamie Stevens questions:

Is the problem on all channels or just some?
A
Andrew Tegala
Wednesday 21 November 2012 2:38PM Slough
I live in a block of flats in Slough. I should pick up BBC London from Crystal Palace but my roof aerial is pointed towards Hannington, so therefore I get BBC South. Would it be worth retuning my Humax HDR-T2-Fox manually to CP or just stick with reception from Hannington?
Dave Lindsay
Wednesday 21 November 2012 3:08PM
Andrew Tegala: I don't understand the question.

If your aerial points to Hannington then it has been installed to pick up signals from Hannington. If you "should" do anything, then surely you should use your aerial as it was designed.

If you would prefer to watch London programming then clearly you would have to consult with the person or body responsible for the aerial system although it would mean that everyone else in the block will also have change their regional programming unless a second aerial is fitted in order to give viewers choice.
M
Michael
Thursday 22 November 2012 8:05PM
Andrew Tegala: As Dave says, there might be a reason why it's pointing towards Hannington, but it seems like you should get a signal from both - you could also try manual retuning into the Crystal Palace channel numbers (UHF 23/26 would give you the London BBC/ITV1 regional services).
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sean
Friday 23 November 2012 9:14PM
Hi Jamie my location is Andover so in the Hannington area and the sound is crystal clear its the picture
M
Mr T
Saturday 24 November 2012 5:31PM Reading
Update FYI - it turned out to be my old analogue DVD recorder which has the antenna cable pass in to and out of if. Interestingly, it's never powered up, so I assume there's some very, very simple cabling going on inside there that's failed. Adept Aerials found it in minutes, and confirmed my signal was more than good enough for Freeview HD, so now I have no excuse not to buy a replacemnt PVR :^)
C
Chris.SE
Sunday 25 November 2012 11:26PM
Without your postcode it's impossible to even start with any advice. You could be tuned to the wrong transmitter, you may have an aerial or cable problem. Don't know if you have an aerial amplifier, how many sockets does it feed? Is the problems the same on all TV's or from all the sockets? etc etc.
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sean
Saturday 1 December 2012 7:46AM
Chris as i said above it has been happening to my neighbors too and the signal seems to be perfectly fine now i figured out the problem it was to do with other neighbors were having electrical works done and it was interfering with the signal but now im getting perfect signal from Hannington so its all fine but thanks anyway.
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danny
Saturday 5 January 2013 11:41AM Tadley
why can't i get gold on my TV?
Briantist
Saturday 5 January 2013 12:34PM
danny: G.O.L.D is a subscription service.
Transmitter engineering
Tuesday 15 January 2013 8:02PM
HANNINGTON transmitter - Freeview - No reported problems -. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Tuesday 15 January 2013 8:02PM
HANNINGTON transmitter - Freeview - No reported problems -. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Tuesday 15 January 2013 8:50PM
HANNINGTON transmitter - Freeview No problems on any service. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Tuesday 15 January 2013 8:50PM
HANNINGTON transmitter - Freeview No problems on any service. [BBC]
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Savell Martin
Saturday 19 January 2013 3:18PM Reading
How do you find your symbol rate?
Hannington is my transmitter for RG2 0FW.
But I need to set it up in TvHeadEnd, and I dont know what the Symbol (baud) rate is?
Also the Delivery system?
And constellation?

Thanks :)
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Nicola Baker
Monday 8 April 2013 6:49PM
We are in kidlington, Oxon and for the last six months one of our tuners keeps changing to this transmitter (berks and north hants) our nearest transmitter is mendip and we have a perfect signal. Please note we have two different freeview boxes and both are doing this. We have had someone out to check the aerial and he has done some work but is baffled by this. We keep retuning until both boxes are on the nearest transmitter but at some point they both change one tuner back to this transmitter.
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Nicola Baker
Monday 8 April 2013 7:55PM
Nicola Baker: My local transmitter is oxford not mendip, I am having a ditzy moment
J
jb38
Monday 8 April 2013 8:25PM
Nicola Baker: I was wondering about that! because using Kidlington post office as a test indicates that the Oxford transmitter is located at only about six miles away from you, and which in theory dependant on the aerial system being used, could result in your TV or boxes tuner suffering from the effects of being overloaded by an excessively strong signal and something which is capable of causing all sorts of odd problems.

Should you have any form of booster in line with your aerial then for a test try bypassing it, because once that Oxfords six muxes (inc HD) have been manually tuned in then they cannot change on their own.

Oxford's channels being /

53 - 60 - 57(HD) - 62 -59 - 55
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KMJ,Derby
Tuesday 9 April 2013 9:08PM
Nicola Baker: Do the receivers in question have a facility to automatically re-tune, either at regular intervals or when a re-tune prompt is detected? If so, as Hannington uses lower frequencies than Oxford its muxes are found first during the scan. Consequently these muxes will be stored and the EPG slots filled. What happens when the scan reaches the Oxford frequencies depends on the design of the box. Mux BBCA, for example, will be detected as carrying a different region to BBCA from Hannington, so either BBC1 Oxford alone, or all the channels in the Oxford mux will be stored in the 800s. An identical mux, such as SDN will often either be ignored as a duplicate, or because the signal strength or quality is better than the Hannington version already stored, will then be stored instead of the Hannington version in the normal positions in the channel list. You could well find the COM muxes are quite randomly chosen from either Oxford or Hannington after each retune! Some boxes offer an option to turn off the automatic re-tuning facility.
G
GW
Sunday 14 April 2013 9:00PM
Is there a new problem with Hannington - reduced power perhaps?
We have to use this TX as we can't see Rowridge (large hill in the way): normally we get good Freview quality at about 60% indicated strength.
Today we're seeing frequent (every 10-30s) reductions in quality (50%) with major impact on sound and pixellation.
Tested with 2 different TVs and 2 PVRs.
Could be our end, hence the question.
M
MS
Friday 19 April 2013 9:51AM
Hi,

Why are there so many BBC lip-sync problems with the Hannington transmitter at the moment ? The re-sets seem to be quite often.

What is going on ?
J
jamie
Friday 19 April 2013 5:21PM Portsmouth
MS....

there is no reported issue with your transmitter.

You may have issue with your tv or aerial system.
J
jamie
Friday 19 April 2013 5:22PM Portsmouth
GW....

do you still have issues?
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Dan Akers
Thursday 30 May 2013 7:22AM
I do hope someone can help as this is driving me crazy. I live about 3 miles from Crystal Palace. Until they built the monstrous flats right in front of me, you could SEE the transmitter directly ahead of you, back in the days when reception was perfect.

Now, tuning into Freeview via my PCTV T290e DVB-T USB tuner, you get between 1% signal strength and 100% - it's massively inconsistent and the slightest touch of the aerial knocks everything out.

Tried aerial amplifiers, amplified (and non-amplified) aerials, the tiny portable antenna that came with the tuner, and limited success. In fact the amplified aerials seem to have yielded the worst results.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Dan
Briantist
Monday 3 June 2013 5:43PM
Dan Akers: You really need a rooftop aerial for reliable Freeview reception.
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Dave
Thursday 6 June 2013 4:12PM Yateley
Hello. I get very good Freeview from Hannington transmitter. I am located in Yateley, Hampshire, GU46 6ES.
I have seen a number of news reports that suggest that the new 4G mobile service may have a detrimental effect on Freeview signals in many parts of the country but they are never specific. Do you happen to know if Hannington and my area, is likely to be affected ? Many thanks.
Dave Lindsay
Thursday 6 June 2013 4:41PM
Dave: No because, just as with the media we don't have a crystal ball and can't see into the future.

There are a whole number of variables, not least where the operators site their base stations. How do you think we might find that one out?

The "areas" that will be affected are likely to be close to base stations.

Honestly, why do people bother putting their efforts into worrying about something they can do nothing about and which may never happen?
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Richard
Saturday 15 June 2013 7:06PM
Hello, I have been getting good digital signal up until last week and now I am intermittent interference on most channels. I am located in Newbury and had a new aerial 2 years ago which is placed on the roof.
Does anyone know of current broadcast problems?
J
jb38
Saturday 15 June 2013 9:17PM
Richard: Newbury postal areas can be RG14 or RG20 with the reception possibilities varying quite considerably between the two districts as more than one station is involved, however nothing has been posted on the TX fault site with regards to any problems being in existence nor are any engineering works taking place.

You should check with a neighbour to find out if the fault is purely confined to your own installation as it might not be.

A more detailed answer can only be given when a post code or one from nearby has been supplied, as its impossible to access info regarding reception or the transmitters involved without this information.
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Richard
Sunday 16 June 2013 11:00AM
Thanks for the reply, I am located in RG14 area. On thing I have noticed is that the BBC channels seem more effected and the ITV, Channel 4 etc seem to be fine!
J
jb38
Sunday 16 June 2013 5:49PM Newbury
Richard: If the signal path from the transmitter (Hannington) passes over trees (unable to check) then this can affect one mux more than another, however on the other hand as you reside at a distance of only 7 miles away from the transmitter and with a clear line of sight being indicated (land only) on a RG14 2PF test code, if you are using a booster then temporarily try bypassing it just in case the signal is a little over the top strength wise for the tuner fitted in your TV or box, as this possibility cannot be discounted
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