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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.


Your comments: most recent posts are at the bottom

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Your comments are always welcome. Please use the form below to add your thoughts or questions to this page. We will get back to you as soon as we can.

Briantist
Monday 2 June 2008 10:22AM
NickyJ: This transmitter will be upgraded on or around Thursday 1st March 2012.
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David
Wednesday 4 June 2008 4:57PM Henley-on-thames
I live in Henley-on-Thames nr Reading and we recieve sky from a satelite dish and we are thinking of switching to freesat sometime this year. We were wondering if you can choose your itv and bbc region to Thames valley and south, we currently have BBC Oxford and itv london which are very irrevelant to us.
Briantist
Wednesday 4 June 2008 5:06PM
David: Yes, you can. Or at least you will be able to - the streams are all there, just waiting for a software upgrade. Please see www.ukfree.tv link icon Upgrading from Sky to Freesat
| ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002 Also see www.ukfree.tv link icon Which BBC regions are on satellite? | ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
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Paul Naish
Sunday 29 June 2008 4:20PM Wokingham
Hi Peter in Caversham, I'm glad someone else is having problems with MUX1 from Hannington and its not just me. Are you still experiencing problems? See my other posts. (RG40 4UF) PN
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Mike
Monday 7 July 2008 12:19PM Reading
Hi Guys,

I had exactly the same problems as mentioned above with Hannington. I live in Reading RG31. Retuning did nothing.

However, this morning I went into the loft, cleaned every connector (I have a 6-way aerial booster/splitter) and made sure that the connectors are all tight and grip the earthing braid. I also moved it all a few inches to ensure that the cables weren't under strain. Result - signal on Channel 43 doubled in strength and quality almost 100%. Worth a try for all.

I hope that this is maintained and not a coincidence - OK for an hour so far.
Briantist
Monday 7 July 2008 12:23PM
Mike: It is always worth checking the cables, connectors and aerial if you don't have a good signal.
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Mike
Wednesday 9 July 2008 12:26PM Reading
How pride comes before a fall!

Checking the contacts gave a better signal until at least late last night as I recorded a program on ITV4 properly. This morning not only is Channel 43 (Mux 2) bad but so is Channel 44 (Mux C).

They do seem to be very variable, so maybe the weather plays a part. Both are on Low transmit power from Hannington.

Anybody got a shilling for their meter?
Briantist
Wednesday 9 July 2008 1:08PM
Mike: There are no problems with this transmitter at the moment. I can't see a good external reason for the problem. What do the analogue pictures look like?
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Mike
Wednesday 9 July 2008 1:39PM Reading
Hi Briantist,

Channel 4 is fine, except that it occasionally loses its colour when I first change to it. Channel 3 (ITV Meridian) is poor, very speckled and some ghosting.

I love the "This transmitter has no current reported problems" banner - whoever put that up hasn't read this thread!

Regards
Briantist
Wednesday 9 July 2008 1:46PM
Mike: The information at the top of the page is taken from various sources. "This transmitter has no current reported problems" is what you get if no-one has reported anything. Analogue ITV1 is on C42, which is just adjacent to C43 and C44, the poor picture on this is probably a good guide to fixing the problem. The fact that analogue C4 (on C66) is OK tends to suggest that the aerial alignment is OK, and that there is either something generating RF on around C42, or that something (like the booster) is gnarling your signal. The best course of action would be to use the analogue ITV1 picture as a guide to locate the problem and I am sure your Freeview problems will then be fixed.
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Mike
Friday 11 July 2008 2:17PM Reading
Briantist,

I bottled out and had an external aerial fitted today. This has marginally increased the signal strength and, more importantly, the signal quality, which is now rock-steady at 100%. Because the aerial is at the other end of the house, its line-of-sight clears a couple of near-by trees, which also helps.

Hopefully, my reception problems will now be over.

PS There is still a very little ghosting on Analogue ITV, but I think that is a function of location rather than signal.

Regards
Briantist
Friday 11 July 2008 3:35PM
Mike: I'm pleased you have a decent signal. Whilst having a good analogue picture doesn't mean you get a good digital one, having poor analogue reception usually means poor digital! The "ghosting" is caused by reflections in the analogue signal path. Although the COFDM transmissions are designed to deal with the "multipath problem" as it is called, there is only a limit to what it can manage.
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Peter Freitag
Thursday 24 July 2008 5:41PM
I have just installed a 48 element high gain aerial in Lychpit, Basingstoke and received freeview for the first time. I am receiving all the channels in groups A,B +D but nothing in groups 1, 2 +C. My first channel is 5 so no BBC1 or 2 nor ITV1 or channell4. What has gone wrong, can anyone help?
Briantist
Thursday 24 July 2008 5:51PM
Peter Freitag: Hi Peter. Can you tell me your full postcode please?
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Rachel
Friday 25 July 2008 11:24AM
Our analogue C4 is fine but on freeview has no sound (for a few weeks now). I have retuned but still a problem. Any ideas?
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Peter Freitag
Saturday 26 July 2008 10:27AM Basingstoke
Hi Briantist, my postcode is RG24 8AQ
Briantist
Saturday 26 July 2008 10:41AM
Peter Freitag: You should have no problems at all getting a signal from Hannington at your location. Are you using a booster at all? If so, you might like to try with it disconnected.
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DonnyP
Monday 28 July 2008 9:36AM
I have had problems in your area. The BBC multiplex is usually the one that is weakest. As a rule we tend to fit 64 element hi-gain aerials on, depending how far up the hill you are, up to 10' masts.
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Adrian
Tuesday 29 July 2008 12:46PM
I've had a freeview box (Durabrand PVR) for almost a year, but it has always seemed to suffer from some slight interference - I get horizontal bands moving either up or down the picture.
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steve,bedworth
Tuesday 29 July 2008 1:29PM
Adrian, I had this problem with my virgin mediabox before I went over to my v+ box.
I found it was a faulty scart.
change the scart and see if it makes any difference
Briantist
Tuesday 29 July 2008 1:35PM
Adrian: That kind of interference is analogue and is between the box and the TV.
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Adrian
Tuesday 29 July 2008 1:48PM
Brian,Steve,

Thanks for your replies. The Freeview box is on a small table next to the TV - very close to one of the TV's speakers.
I'll try moving the box to different positions relative to the TV to see if makes any difference. If that doesnt work, I'll try a new scart lead.
Briantist
Tuesday 29 July 2008 1:54PM
Adrian: Another possibility is poor earthing on your analogue TV, you might need a mains filter.
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M Hourican
Thursday 7 August 2008 10:40PM
We have lost a fair amount of channels recentley, Channel 4, ITV3 etc to name some key ones.
We don't receive E4 or ITV6 but receive the "+1" counterparts.

Any reason for this? It has happened on two of the digital boxes in our house (on built into a T.V. the other a plug and play).
Briantist
Saturday 9 August 2008 1:15PM
M Hourican: The channels you can't receive are on multiplex 2, whereas E4+1 and ITV2+1 are not. Please see www.ukfree.tv link icon Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
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tim douglas
Saturday 23 August 2008 10:22AM
I live in Ryde IOW. I have freeview and have been able to recieve radio 2. However over the last couple of months reception has been disjointed' It only affects BBC tradio programmes other programmes are fine. The TV is relatively new. Please advise.
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stuart
Friday 5 September 2008 7:04PM
hi i have just had an aerial company come to me today to fix my aerial there were fabulous they are called 1 install there web address is www.1install.com just hought id say a good work and pass on a good name
Briantist
Friday 5 September 2008 7:08PM
stuart: It is always excellent to hear of good companies.
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Nigel
Sunday 14 September 2008 8:14PM
our sony tv has always received BBC1 and BBC2 etc. in Digital (plus CBBC channel 70?). since last wed, we cant get BBC1, BBC2 or Channel 70 in digital - other digital channels all fine still. Tried retuning the TV but we still cant get them. Is there a problem? GU34 (near Alton, Hants).

Thank you.
Nigel
Briantist
Monday 15 September 2008 1:40AM
Nigel: There are no problems reported on the transmitter. For ideas, please see www.ukfree.tv link icon Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
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Ian
Thursday 16 October 2008 3:06PM Tadley
Hi,having discarded my old pioneer freeview box and installed new sony rdr-hxd 870 2-3 months ago, I was able to tune just about every freeview station even getting a good dig Ch5 for the first time. I was pleased until about 3 weeks ago and suddenly signal strength appears to have dropped out particulary on MUX1 & 2. Can only get itv2+1, film4, sky3, E4+1 plus shopping channels. Roof areial is high gain abt 5 years old. P/c is RG26 5JU.
I've noticed that my aerial is at a sligtly different direction from my neighbours. THere is ghosting on bbc1 analogue but all other analogues arent that bad. Any ideas? Thx
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David Kent
Saturday 25 October 2008 7:11PM Southampton
Can you please tell me WHY on the same set I can recieve Meridian (south) on analogue and Thames Valley on digital.
My aeriel is directed towards Hannington.
I have tried to retune the digital many times, but still can't get Meridian (south) .
Briantist
Sunday 26 October 2008 11:56AM
David Kent: If you can receive more than one ITV channel, then the alternative is placed on channel 803 usually.
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Keith Hooker
Friday 7 November 2008 11:27AM
PLEASE NOTE:

Freewiew power to the Wokingham area is (I understand) retricted to protect the Guildford transmitter.

You should realise that people in Wokingham have no interest in receiving Crystal Palace services at all and would much prefer to receive local services from the Thames Valeey and the south. You are going to alienate many people by not providing "local" services to Wokingham.

On a personal level, I much preferred the services we got from Southampton (prior to the Thames Valley service) and consider the Southampton services infinately more local than the Crystal Palace services

Can you asure me that the increase in transmitter power will address the problem of people in Wokingham being able to receive (local) Thames Valley services better.
Briantist
Friday 7 November 2008 11:31AM
Keith Hooker: Yes, the increase in power at switchover will improve reception conditions for everyone.
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David D
Saturday 8 November 2008 9:11PM
More4 has no EPG other than now and next program. Has been like this for weeks! Any ideas? Thanks.
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Ian
Sunday 14 December 2008 1:53PM
We have been recieving digital transmitions from Hanington until Sat 12th Dec 2008. Now it is no more. Where has it gone? Do we now have to waite until 2012?
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aerialman
Sunday 14 December 2008 2:56PM
Ian : can you still get analogue?
jake
Sunday 8 February 2009 7:42PM Maidenhead
remember, tonight itv is changing back to meridian
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Alan Bond
Sunday 22 February 2009 10:54AM Camberley
Am confused but not complaining.

Am in Camberley GU15 area. Various web sites say Hannington does not radiate any digital signals in our direction yet to protect Guildford transmitter. The transmission map above on this site though shows good all directional coverage including Camberley.

We do also get very good analogue and digital (60+ Freeview channels) with a new Antiference aerial pointed at Hannington. Has the digital changeover already taken place at Hannington?
Briantist
Friday 27 February 2009 8:18PM
Alan Bond: No, the switchover will still be in March 2012.

Out of interest which ITV and BBC regions do you have. It might be you are getting a Crystal Palace signal...
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Alan Bond
Thursday 12 March 2009 4:37PM Camberley
Hi

The regional news programs being received are Meridian on ITV1 and South Today on BBC1. Pretty sure they are coming from Hannington as aerial is accurately aligned on that transmitter according to compass.

Crystal Palace is blocked by our high pitched roof immediately behind the aerial and it would be well misaligned directionwise.

The aerial is a new Antiference XG10EW at about 17 metres above ground level erected by self when scaffolding gave opportunity to install easily last year. Expected good analogue but very surprised to find seemingly full range of high quality digital progs being picked up when its not supposed to work yet!
Briantist
Friday 13 March 2009 2:47PM
Alan Bond: You can work out the exact transmitter using two of the channel numbers you get Freeview on. Please see www.ukfree.tv link icon Find a Freeview transmitter by frequency | ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002 - a good installation can often overcome the normal Freeview limitations.
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dave moule
Thursday 23 April 2009 7:44PM Winchester
HELP!!! BBC1 and BBC2 etc. disappeared at end of last week - CH50 Mux1- April '09 - Hannington

(Posted also on the CH50 page.)

I hadn't changed anything! But now there is nothing found when scanning CH50 as of the end of last week. Before that it all worked fine. All the other 85 freeview channels are fine, it is only bbc1, bbc2, cbbc, bbc news 24, that have gone. I am pointing at hannington transmitter. All the other channels are 100% quality.

What's happened to CH50???? HELP!!!!

Any suggestions appreciated!

I have a Humax 9200T PVR. The coax from the aerial plugs into the hummy, then a coax output comes from the hummy and into the TV along with a scart cable. Everything was working fine and I've changed nothing. I've checked out the single frequency interference link (thanks Mike) and switched off every device around and unplugged the coax coming out of the hummy. But still no joy. I'm puzzled as to why this happened all of a sudden last week - nothing changed here. Why should I suddenly not be able to get MUX1-CH50.

Hannington is showing "No problems with this transmitter at the moment".

Any suggestions appreciated!

Regards,
Dave
mouled@uk.ibm.com

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Roy
Saturday 30 May 2009 7:29AM Andover

y aerial is pointing to Hannington from SP11. When I retuned my Humax 9002 the transmitter is now reported as Berks & North Hants. Is this a different tranny? Great pics and ITV1,2,3, now 100% quality. Anyone any idea what changed?
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Mike Dimmick
Sunday 31 May 2009 2:50PM
Roy, the transmitters have recently changed from reporting their location to reporting their region. This is presumably to reduce confusion, as few people know where most of the small towns, villages, or hills that the transmitters are sited at are.

Hannington is roughly between Basingstoke and Newbury, to the east of you.
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Roy
Sunday 31 May 2009 3:49PM Andover
Thanks Mike
Can you shed any light on why ITV 1,2,3 are much stonger reception for me now than when I last scanned in the channels back in March?



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