Full Freeview on the Rowridge (Isle Of Wight, England) transmitter
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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
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Wednesday, 7 March 2012
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Lynda4:36 PM
I've only lost BBC2 on analogue right now. Was less than impressed that my Freeview PVR didn't record anything I had set up overnight from midnight till I retuned though !!!
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Lynda: BBC Two analogue has been switched off and the frequency is used to occupy is now used for full power BBC standard definition digital.
Your receiver was quite correct not to record because there was nothing to record due to the fact that the transmitter was switched off overnight just after midnight!
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Rog9:52 PM
Clanfield Hants. PO80XL address. Rowridge transmitter (assumed). I visited parents this (Wednesday 7th) evening to retune their HUMAX PVR freeview. They reported loss of BBC2 during the day but apparently all other digital channels were ok. Performed retune and box found 63 channels, including BBC 1 & 2 CBBC etc., but no ITV, Ch4, Ch5, ITV2 (complete mux channel ?). Undertook full reset and auto tune several times but no change.
If the Humax received ITV on Freeview ok before I rescanned why won't it find it again ? Has something changed that I need to cater for post retune ? ie. aeriel change ?
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Prue King10:25 PM
SO224HH. I have a HUMAX box and aerial in the loft. I have retuned several times today but always get BBC1 to 4 on 800, 801, 802, 803. Is there anything I can do to correct this?
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Jeff White10:49 PM
Southampton
I went to Portsmouth (PO2 0QD) this morning to re-tune an elderly relatives Sony TV(old roof aerial). Its digital performance since it was bought a few years ago has been absolutely solid. On re-tuning it has lost BBC1&2 and this evening can receive BBC4 but not BBC3. Initially I used auto re-tune and then just re-tuned the digital channels - no change.
Before I drive to Portsmouth again do you think your Freeview reset procedure will help? I understand its logic but had not heard of this problem before.
All our 3 TVs re-tuned this morning without a problem and we live in what has been a difficult area for Rowridge. (PO2 0QD)
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Jeff's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Solent-Viewer10:57 PM
I did the retune this morning at 9 and all went well. I returned home this evening and everything was sitll OK. However, I watched CH80 (BBC News) at 10 then turned over to CH1 at 1030 and all went blank. Then all that would show was the analogue. I tried a retune and was left with absolutely nothing other than analogue. This is totally unacceptable!!!!!!
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jb3811:23 PM
Jeff White: There is a great possibility that the signal being received on the now high powered BBC mux is excessively strong whereby is blocking its reception, with this type of problem showing up much more on some tuners more than others.
Another side effect of this problem is that it can slightly desensitise the tuner whereby its difficult to receive lower powered muxes such as presently exist until changeover is complete on April 18th.
As they only cost a few pounds (approx £4.00) I would be inclined to purchase an attenuator of about 10 db or so before paying the area another visit, with the attenuator being placed in line with the TV's aerial socket.
If though you see a variable type with a range of 0-20db these are even better, as they can be finely tuned to obtain the desired results.
There is always an element of hit and miss involved with these things, but that's the procedure I would use as what you have mentioned suggests the problem is one of an over powerful signal.
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Thursday, 8 March 2012
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Stephen8:24 AM
New Milton
Performed retune yesterday and have no BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, BBC News or 301. This is on both of my freeview receivers. The chap on BBC local radio who lives 5 minutes down the road said on air he had the same thing but I haven't heard any solution. I rescanned again this morning and the same channels are still missing.
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Stephen's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jb389:29 AM
Stephen: As nothing is seen mentioned as yet about any fault being in existence on Rowridges BBC mux you should consider the possibility of the signal you receive being excessively powerful thereby blocking your tuner on that channel, as its presently only the BBC mux that's operating on 200Kw, ITV still only being on 20Kw until March 21st, needless to say that if you use an aerial amplifier temporarily try by passing it.
Should you not use an aerial amplifier then if you have access to a set top aerial give your TV or whatever a re-tune (essential) with that plugged in, as it doesn't matter if any picture received is iffy as its really more the case of if you get it at all. Should a set top aerial not be available then just use a small length (about 600mm or so) of wire pushed into the middle part of the TV's aerial socket and carry out a re-tune, as if your problem is being caused by a high level of signal this test will prove it one way or the other.
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Christopher Gray11:30 AM
New Milton
I'm trying to help my Dad re-tune - he is in New Milton on the Rowridge transmitter. He can't get BBC1, BBC2, BBC News, which should be in 24. Anyone help?
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Christopher's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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