Midhurst transmitting station


The Midhurst transmitting station is a facility for both analogue and digital VHF/FM radio and UHF television transmission, northeast of Midhurst, West Sussex, England. The station broadcasts to much of the northern half of West Sussex, and to small parts of Surrey and Hampshire.
It includes a guyed steel lattice mast, and on top of this is the UHF television transmitting antenna, which brings the overall height of the structure to.
The transmission site is located at 51° 01′ 2.0″ North, 0° 42' 4.0" West.
The current mast has an average height of 307 metres above sea level. It is now owned and operated by Arqiva, but was owned by the BBC before they privatised their transmission department prior to 1997.

Services listed by frequency

Analogue radio (FM VHF)

Digital radio (DAB)

Television

Analogue

1972 – 1983
1983 – 31 December 1992
1st January 1993 – 14 November 1998

Analogue and digital

15 November 1998 – 28 February 2012
Digital terrestrial television was first transmitted from the Midhurst mast from 15 November 1998 using the frequency gaps between the analogue TV broadcasts. To limit interference to the analogue transmissions, power output on the digital multiplexes was low.
FrequencyUHFkWOperatorSystem
55100BBC TwoPAL System I
56+2BBC DVB-T
58100ITV1 PAL System I
59+2BBC DVB-T
601Arqiva DVB-T
61100BBC OnePAL System I
62+2SDN DVB-T
64-1Arqiva DVB-T
65+2Digital 3&4 DVB-T
68100Channel 4PAL System I
29 February 2012 to 13 March 2012
On the 29 February 2012, Midhurst started DSO with analogue BBC Two ceasing transmission on UHF 55 and Mux 1 closed on UHF 56. The new BBC A multiplex started on UHF 55 from the start.
FrequencyUHFkWOperatorSystem
5520BBC ADVB-T
58100ITV1 PAL System I
59+2BBC DVB-T
601Arqiva DVB-T
61100BBC OnePAL System I
62+2SDN DVB-T
64-1Arqiva DVB-T
65+2Digital 3&4 DVB-T
68100Channel 4PAL System I

Digital

14 March 2012 to 2 October 2012
Following the completion of analogue TV shutdown on 14 March 2012, Midhurst frequency allocation was.
FrequencyUHFkWOperatorSystem
5010 Arqiva BDVB-T
5520BBC ADVB-T
5820BBC BDVB-T2
5910Arqiva ADVB-T
6120Digital 3&4DVB-T
6210SDNDVB-T
3 October 2012 to 20 March 2018
Due to the clearance of the 800MHz band, Digital 3&4 was moved from UHF 61 to UHF 56 and SDN from UHF 62 to UHF 54.
FrequencyUHFkWOperatorSystem
5010Arqiva BDVB-T
5410SDNDVB-T
5520BBC ADVB-T
5620Digital 3&4DVB-T
5820BBC BDVB-T2
5910Arqiva ADVB-T
21 March 2018 to 15 October 2019
Due to the clearance of the 700MHz band, SDN was moved from UHF 54 to UHF 29, this allowed Digital 3&4 to move from UHF 56 to UHF 54, BBC A from UHF 55 to UHF 48 and Arqiva B from UHF 50 to UHF 33.
FrequencyUHFkWOperatorSystem
2910SDNDVB-T
3310Arqiva BDVB-T
4820BBC ADVB-T
5420Digital 3&4DVB-T
5820BBC BDVB-T2
5910Arqiva ADVB-T
16 October 2019 to present
Midhurst completed 700MHz clearance on 16 October 2019 when the following frequencies came into use.