Full Freeview on the Rowridge (Isle Of Wight, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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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._______
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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Rowridge 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
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 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
C21 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
C22 | +ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
C24 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
C25 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
C27 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
C28 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
C29 | LSO | ||||||||
C31 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | com7 | |||||
C37 | com8 | ||||||||
C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
C56tv_off | COM8tv_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
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Saturday, 25 February 2012
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jamie3:06 PM
Havant
Advice for Freeview users. aerial position is key to success.even putting the aerial on a different side of a chimney can make a difference. just because your neighbour has a loft aerial doesnt mean you can. signal can be different even to the sensitivity of signal in one location and then nothing literally 2 feet along. i recently installed a 10ft mast on a house but the neighbour had a loft install.!! if you have a loft install and things have been OK upto now then it May be than something has been built in your patway to knock the signal. advice given by Jamie of WWW.jayscabling.Co.UK
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Wednesday, 29 February 2012
Why has Rowridge swicthed to Vertical polarization on analogue ?
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Dave's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Seems I was wrong about this, my rotator has gone out of alighment, so west is not west at the moment etc !
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Friday, 2 March 2012
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Matt8:06 AM
Oxford
IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING CHANGES TO COMPLETION TIMES FOR THE ROWRIDGE TRANSMITTER
Rowridge transmitter group
Switchover Stage One (7 March 2012) Planned completion times (might be subject to change)
Westbourne was 12pm, now expected 6am.
Switchover Stage Two (21 March 2012) Planned completion times (might be subject to change)
Bovington was 12pm, now expected 9am.
Corfe Castle was 12.30pm, now expected 12pm.
Winterbourne Steepleton was 9am, now expected 12.30pm.
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Matt's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Mr P.J.Ball6:25 PM
Southampton
Wonder if anyone else has had the problem that, on BBC1 Rowridge, there is no sound at switch on at the hdr and separate tv. After switching off the Humax hdr and the tv the sound came back. Could it be tied up with the changes that are taking place clobbering the tv software?
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Sunday, 4 March 2012
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Chris_T9:27 PM
I'm a little confused about the power increase on the Rowridge transmiiter after the digital changeover. Am I right that the power will increase to 200kW from 21st March but only on the vertically polarised signal?
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jb3811:43 PM
Chris_T: Yes that's quite correct, as Rowridges commercial Mux's on horizontal polarity will only be running with an ERP of 50Kw compared to the main PSB transmitters on 200Kw, as indeed are all of the multiplexes transmitting on Rowridges vertical polarity.
The 50Kw from Rowridge being necessary as Crystal Palace also uses the same channels on their horizontally polarised commercial multiplexes.
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Monday, 5 March 2012
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Solent-Viewer4:53 PM
I underrstand switchover is on the 7th, but at what time? I want to set the recorder to run at 10am for 2hrs before I leave at 09:15hrs before I leave at 10:00. Will the switchover be complete by then??
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Solent-Viewer: The first stage of switchover is on 7th and is expected to be completed by 6am (probably before if all goes smoothly).
For a full list of times of Rowridge and its relays, see: Digital UK - Relay transmitter switching times
Having retuned your receiver, you may well find that the timer programmes will be lost.
At the first stage of switchover BBC Two analogue will be switched off and BBC standard definition digital channels will move to being full power. All other channels will stay as they are.
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