Full Freeview on the Rowridge (Isle Of Wight, England) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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50.676,-1.369 or 50°40'35"N 1°22'7"W

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The symbol shows the location of the Rowridge (Isle Of Wight, England) transmitter which serves 620,000 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.

This transmitter has no current reported problems

The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Rowridge (Isle Of Wight, England) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Rowridge 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.

Mux	H/V	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	V max H max	C24 (498.0MHz)	320m	DTG-	200,000W 200,000W
	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 H max	C27 (522.0MHz)	320m	DTG-	200,000W 200,000W
	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 H max	C21+ (474.2MHz)	320m	DTG-	200,000W 200,000W
	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 66 TBN UK,
COM4 SDN	H -6dB V -6dB	C25 (506.0MHz)	299m	DTG-8	50,000W 50,000W
	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	H -6dB V -6dB	C22+ (482.2MHz)	302m	DTG-8	50,000W 50,000W
	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	H -6dB V -6dB	C28 (530.0MHz)	302m	DTG-8	50,000W 50,000W
	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
LSO	H -13dB	C37 (602.0MHz)	299m	DTG-12	10,000W
	from 22nd December 2014: 7 That's Solent,

DTG-8 64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Rowridge transmitter?

BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 26km north (354°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.

ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.6%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 24km north-northeast (20°)
to ITV Meridian (South Coast) region - 39 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian plus Oxford

Are there any self-help relays?

Portsmouth Docks

Transposer

2 km N city centre

50 homes Estimate. Group of houses'

How will the Rowridge (Isle Of Wight, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

	1950s-80s	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2012	2012-13	2 May 2018
	VHF	A K T	A K T	A K T	A K T	W T
C3	BBCtv_waves
C21		C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves	+BBCB	BBCB
C22					+ArqA	ArqA
C24		BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBCA	BBCA
C25					SDN	SDN
C27		ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	D3+4	D3+4
C28					ArqB	ArqB
C29						LSO
C31		BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves		com7
C37						com8
C55_{tv_off}						com7_{tv_off}
C56_{tv_off}						COM8_{tv_off}

_{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	500kW
PSB1\|\|, PSB1≡, PSB2\|\|, PSB2≡, PSB3\|\|, PSB3≡	(-4dB) 200kW
COM4≡, COM4\|\|, COM5≡, COM5\|\|, COM6≡, COM6\|\|	(-10dB) 50kW
com7≡	(-13.1dB) 24.4kW
Mux 1, Mux 2, Mux A, Mux B, Mux C, Mux D	(-14dB) 20kW
com8≡	(-14.3dB) 18.4kW
LSO≡	(-17dB) 10kW

Local transmitter maps

Rowridge Freeview Rowridge DAB Rowridge TV region BBC South Meridian (South Coast micro region)

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. Rowridge 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.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

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colin1951uk
4:55 PM
Eastleigh

I notice on the UK site that we now have a third step for retuning Roweridge on the 18th April (to retain existing ). It looks to be mandatory but I'm not sure.

First I've heard of it..is it worth adding to this site Brian?

Colin

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Dave Lindsay

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5:08 PM

colin1951uk: It's for the commercial (COM) multiplexes which remain on their pre- until 18th April. It is also not until the same date that the COMs' vertical components are introduced and at the same time the horizontally polarised signals are boosted.

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David Wilson
11:14 PM
Basingstoke

I live in postcode RG25 2EE. is the recommended , but since we are in a valley is the one used by most. We have 2 aerials on - one for each transmitter. These are combined to a single downlead (using a proper combiner) and it served well for since Rowridge degrades under some weather or atmospheric conditions and Hannington is better for some Analogue , but we had both tuned on the TV's. With Digital, TV's seem to tune only to Rowridge (~-34). Do we really need to choose a transmitter, and unplug the other Rowridge if we want to tune to Hannington?

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KMJ,Derby

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12:40 AM

David Wilson: It is a feature of most boxes that, during the , the first set of found for each mux (in your case ) will be stored. The only other channels to be stored would be any regional variant which is different to that already found. In the case of this could be ITV1 which would usually be placed in the 800s. Some receivers actually store all the channels in the mux containing a regional variant, others store only the actual channel(s) with different content. As the BBC channels and COM muxes are identical for Rowridge and Hannington the only way of storing the Hannington channels would be as you suggest, to unplug the Rowridge before scanning, or do a manual tune for each of the Hannington frequencies after first clearing the . Note that during the period the 2k and 8k versions of the muxes are often seen as a variation, so for a short time you might see many extra channels being stored. This situation will revert to what you have seen previously when switchover is completed fully on 18th April 2012.

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colin1951uk
9:00 PM
Eastleigh

Dave Lindsay: So it's only mandatory for the COMs is it?

We get everything else running on the 21st March if I understand you correctly.

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Dave Lindsay

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9:41 AM

colin1951uk: I'm not sure of the use of the "mandatory" !

But yes, it only affects the COMs. There are other transmitters that go through such changes for the same reason.

It is because the PSBs are allocated previously used by three of the four , hence they are available for use at full (equivalent to that of the analogue services). But the COMs often use three channels that have not previously been used at a particular , hence they only become available once any other transmitters whose signals might be interfered with have vacated those channels.

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colin1951uk
8:17 PM
Eastleigh

Dave Lindsay: Thanks a lot for the clarification..now I understand what's going on.

Cheers..Colin

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trish
2:05 PM

PO107NW
This is on behalf of my elderly aunt who has no computer. She has had for several years with no problem and is using a panasonic tv and humax recorder. For the last few months she has struggled to get itv1 and quite often the rest of mux2. On a recent visit I tried both auto and manual tuning of the tv and I can't get them either even though until the last few months she had no problem. With the humax the situation is better then the tv but often no itv1 or it is unwatchable. She is (and always has been) using a and I have checked all the connections. Sometimes when she tunes it all comes back and then a few days later goes again. The opposite side of her road have no problem. Will this get better after retune?

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cheryl
2:11 PM
Southampton

no itv itv1+1 @ 14.11 22/02/12
is on the
carried out all reset procedures?

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pat
12:10 PM
Sandown

working on the isle of wight and I'm having real trouble trying to get ch32 off the . Any ideas?

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