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50.854,-0.410 or 50°51'13"N 0°24'37"W

BN14 0EX

This transmitter has no current reported problems

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

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The symbol shows the location of the Findon (West Sussex, England) transmitter which serves 2,600 homes.

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Findon DAB

Rowridge region

BBC South

Meridian (South Coast 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 Findon 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.

Mux	Aerial position	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	vertical max	C44 (658.0MHz)	157m	64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	2,000W
	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	vertical max	C41 (634.0MHz)	157m	64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	2,000W
	3 ITV (Meridian (South Coast 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	vertical max	C47 (682.0MHz)	157m	256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4	2,000W
	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 232 The Space,

Are you trying to watch these 27 Freeview channels?

The Findon (West Sussex, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4Music, 4seven, 5*, 5USA, Al Jazeera English, BBC Red Button 2, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, Community Channel, Dave, Dave ja vu, E4+1, Film 4, Food Network, ITV 2 +1, ITV 3, ITV 4, Movie Mix, PICK TV, Quest, Really, RT English , Sky News, The Zone, VIVA, Yesterday.

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 Findon transmitter?

BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 71km west
to BBC South region - 39 masts.

ITV Meridian News 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 59km west
to ITV Meridian (South Coast) region - 36 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian plus Oxford

How will the Findon (West Sussex, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

	years	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2012	2012-13	2013-18	2013-18
	aerial group	B E	B E	B E	B E K	B E K	B E K
	C41	ITV	ITV	ITV	D3+4	D3+4	D3+4
	C44	BBC2	BBC2	BBC2	BBCA	BBCA	BBCA
	C47	C4	C4	C4	BBCB	BBCB	BBCB
700	C51	BBC1	BBC1	BBC1

orange background for multiplexes names more

green background for transmission frequencies

lilac background for power levels in watts

800MHz band: 4G mobile to start in 2013

700MHz band: possible 4G in 2019 more

600MHz 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 7th March and 21st March 2012.

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

BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	2kW
Analogue 1-4	(-16dB) 50W

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

Aug 1958-Jan 1992	Southern Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992	Television South (TVS)
Jan 1993-Feb 2004	Meridian
Feb 2004-Dec 2014	ITV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Findon 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 7 January 2012 4:29AM

FINDON transmitter - Analogue BBC ONE Off Air; DSO related from 23:45 on 04 Jan to 03:44 on 05 Jan BBC TWO Off Air; DSO related from 00:23 on 05 Jan to 04:10 on 05 Jan [BBC] Over the next week Findon relay: TV (analogue) Liable to interruption, no digital TV, Radio (analogue) working normally, no analogue radio. [DUK]

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