Full Freeview on the Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) transmitter which serves 31,000 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 Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) mast?
Salisbury transmitter - Salisbury transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 18/11/2024 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 Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
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 Freeview channels does the Salisbury 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)
The Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
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 Salisbury transmitter?
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 32km east-southeast (120°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.6%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 44km east-southeast (116°)
to ITV Meridian (South Coast) region - 39 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian plus Oxford
How will the Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 18 Apr 2018 | |||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | C/D E T | K T | |||
| C23 | _local | ||||||||
| C29 | SDN | ||||||||
| C31 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C37 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C41 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C44 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C47 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C51tv_off | _local | _local | _local | ||||||
| C53tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||
| C55tv_off | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | ||||||
| C57tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | |||
| C59tv_off | -ArqA | -ArqA | -ArqA | ||||||
| C60tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | |||
| C62 | SDN | ||||||||
| C63 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C68 | C5waves | C5waves |
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 7 Mar 12 and 21 Mar 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 10kW | |
| Analogue 5, SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 2kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C* | (-10dB) 1000W | |
| Mux D* | (-11.9dB) 640W | |
| Mux 2* | (-14.9dB) 320W |
Local transmitter maps
Salisbury Freeview Salisbury DAB Salisbury AM/FM Rowridge TV region BBC South Meridian (South Coast micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Rowridge transmitter area
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Thursday, 31 March 2011
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Mike Dimmick5:30 PM
Reading
Saul Warren-Howles: The Salisbury transmitter switches over starting on the 7th of March 2012 and completes on the 21st of March.
There's a chance that additional retunes may be required before and after switchover, depending on whether there are clashes with other transmitters and whether the plans are updated to release C62 at switchover.
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Mike's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 3 July 2011
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Ian Stevens5:32 PM
Salisbury
I live at SP4 6PA and was receiving all channels OK from Salisbury transmitter up to about 6 days ago - when I lost all the MUX 2 stations. Re-set procedure doesn't work. I have read that Salisbury transmitter is on low power, but that doesn't explain why reception was working fine previously, and now doesn't. Advice, thoughts? - is this a temp problem? is there a (valid) reason for low power? will it improve at digital switchover? don't want to expend money on a new antenna when it was working perfectly before...Thanks!
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Ian's: mapI's Freeview map terrainI's terrain plot wavesI's frequency data I's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Friday, 8 July 2011
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Stuart Fyfe12:26 AM
Salisbury
I live at SP1 3QR and was receiving all channels OK from Salisbury transmitter up to about 6 days ago - when I lost all the MUX 2 stations. Re-set procedure doesn't work. I had moved the indoor aerial, and have waved it about since without success.
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Stuart's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 17 July 2011
Stuart Fyfe: This is what you might expect from an indoor aerial. I would see Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice - however you should really use a rooftop aerial if you want stable Freeview reception.
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Thursday, 21 July 2011
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david10:51 PM
post swichover salisbury use less chanels will this mean less programmes than now?
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Monday, 25 July 2011
david: There are no analogue broadcasts of channels carried now in both formats. The change of mode on the Arqiva multiplexes at switchover will provide about four more TV channels.
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Friday, 2 September 2011
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david8:15 PM
is there going to be a power increase on the 12 sept 2011 on freeview from salisbury
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Wednesday, 7 September 2011
david: Nope. There can't be a "power increase" until switchover, which is Wednesday 7th and 21st March 2012
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Jim F5:40 PM
david: On the Digital UK website it does show an event for 28th September:
"Existing DTT power-up" on the Salisbury relay.
I've no idea what the power change is though.
DSO1 and DSO2 are as per Briantist's post.
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