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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 30/09/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels Digital tick


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Which Freeview channels does the Salisbury 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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
C41 (634.0MHz)153mDTG-2,000W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) South, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
C44- (657.8MHz)153mDTG-2,000W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian (South Coast micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Meridian south coast), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C47 (682.0MHz)153mDTG-2,000W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

COM4
SDN
 V max
C29 (538.0MHz)153mDTG-82,000W
Channel icons
20 U&Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 U&Dave ja vu, 58 ITV3 +1, 59 ITV4 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 91 WildEarth, 93 ITVBe +1, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 251 Al Jazeera English, 255 FRANCE 24 (in English), 265 Rok Sky +1, plus 29 others

COM5
ArqA
 V max
C31- (553.8MHz)152mDTG-82,000W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 U&Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 U&Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 &UYesterday +1, 76 That's TV 2 MCR, 233 Sky News, plus 13 others

COM6
ArqB
 V max
C37 (602.0MHz)152mDTG-82,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 U&W, 27 U&Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 63 GREAT! romance mix, 73 HobbyMaker, 75 That's 90s, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

DTG-8 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?

regional news image
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 32km east-southeast (120°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
regional news image
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?

1984-971997-981998-20122012-132013-182013-1718 Apr 2018
C/D EC/D EC/D EC/D EC/D E TC/D E TK T
C23_local
C29SDN
C31ArqA
C37ArqB
C41BBCA
C44D3+4
C47BBCB
C50tv_off SDNSDN
C51tv_off_local_local_local
C53tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4wavesBBCBBBCBBBCB
C55tv_offArqBArqBArqB
C57tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBCABBCABBCA
C59tv_off-ArqA-ArqA-ArqA
C60tv_offITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves-D3+4-D3+4-D3+4
C62SDN
C63BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves
C68C5wavesC5waves

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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

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

Aug 1958-Jan 1992Southern Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992Television South (TVS)
Jan 1993-Feb 2004Meridian
Feb 2004-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. Salisbury 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.

Comments
Thursday, 8 September 2011
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ChrisD
8:04 PM
Salisbury

ITV 1, Channel 4, 5 ITV 2 and misc other channels have been down for the past 24 hrs.
Is there problem with the local transmitter.
Post code is SP4 6BH

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Briantist
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9:57 PM

ChrisD: Yes, please see the information at the top of the page.

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Friday, 9 September 2011
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Lee
9:03 AM

How long is the Salisbury Tx problem going to continue???? started Wednesday and ongoing. Will i need to upgrade aerial ???SP5 4JZ

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Briantist
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9:05 AM

Lee: "Over the next week Salisbury relay: TV (analogue) Liable to interruption, TV (digital) Liable to interruption" means the planned works on the transmitter will continue all week.

Please, as they used to say, do not adjust your set.

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Lee
10:13 AM

Thanks Briantist, too late, wife re-tuned one TV before I got home :(

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Mike Dimmick
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12:28 PM

Lee: There is a post on Digital UK's Planned Engineering Works page specifically regarding the Salisbury transmitter:

Salisbury Transmitter group works 9 September 2011

Engineering transmitter work will take place between 09:30hrs and 18:00hrs.

TV services that will be disrupted:
Analogue services - BBC1, BBC2, ITV, Channel 4 and Five will be subject to periods of shutdown.
Digital services - Mux1, Mux2, MuxA, MuxB, MuxC and MuxD will be subject to periods of shutdown.

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Sunday, 11 September 2011
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Jon Field
9:33 AM
Salisbury

Hi. I live in SP2 8EG area of Salisbury and am very confused about lack of signal to my new Sagecom PVR. I bought it yesyerday as I assumed my old PVR had died! I appreciate that there is "engineering" works on the Sals transmitter, however I have lost itv etc on the PVR, but still get them on my panasonic viera tele which is feed through the PVR! Any help in explaining this greatly appreciated.

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Saturday, 15 October 2011
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Mike Dimmick
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6:51 AM

Ofcom's 'Table of Digital Stations for Multiplex Licences' shows Mux D on C52 running at 640 watts since 28 September 2011. This is presumably to deal with the added interference from Mendip ArqB moving to this channel on the same date.

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Briantist
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12:06 PM

Mike Dimmick: Thanks, I have updated the database.

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