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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Tuesday, 21 August 2012
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Margaret Newman8:38 PM
Havant
If the digital signal is supposed to provide a better service, why do I have problems with picture breaking up and channels intermittently missing since the change over. I live in the PO9 3QA area and out of sheet frustration have just purchased a Panasonic Viera with built in Freeview to no avail. The message comes up "bad signal" or sometimes "no signal. It is the same for my other digital TV which is connected to a different aerial. The TVS have been retuned but it makes no difference I resent the fact I am being pushed into purchasing an additional source such as Free Sat or Sky.I am on the IOW transmitter region
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Mazbar9:21 PM
Margaret Newman: When you called an aerial man to check your aerial befor you went out and spent a lot of money on a new tv did he say you aerial was ok
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Rob10:01 PM
I live in the chichester area and I lose signal on RF channel 27 most evenings why is this? and is there any way to rectiffy this problem.
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Wednesday, 22 August 2012
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jb387:40 AM
Margaret Newman: And in addition to that said by Mazbar, I just had a check at DUK's trade predictions for reception from Rowridge in your area and which has to be said doesn't exactly inspire much confidence as far as reliability of reception is concerned, as the commercial stations (10:ITV3 / 11: Pick TV / 12: Yesterday etc) have the permanent status of variable and thats when received on Rowridges vertically polarised transmissions.
Have a look up at you new aerial to make sure that it has been installed vertically (elements pointing up / down) and NOT horizontally, also it wouldn't go amiss to check with some neighbours if they experience problems when on the "same channels" as you find problems with.
By the way, these Panasonic TV's have some of the best tuners around and can give reasonably glitch free reception in situations where some other well known brands would struggle, and so the TV can be left out of the equation.
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ROB
Hi, there are many issues that could be contributing to the loss of signal on channel 27.
If you can access your aerial you should try and tilt the aerial so that the elements are virtical rather than horizontal.
Other than that only a system test will provide the answer to your problem.
If you require any assistance, I am a approved digital installer based in havant.
Jays Cabling Services
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Tuesday, 28 August 2012
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Rina Miles6:30 PM
For some time I have kept losing the service on BBC 1-4. It says 'no service' The only way I can get it back is by going to Ch 5 and then back. Recording is not affected. The TV shop says other people have the same problem and it's not my set or aerial. They said it was due to work on the transmitter. What is going on? It happens every few minutes!
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RINA MILES....
If you can record BBC1-4 and view the recording but have issues with watching the channels in real time viewing then you issue is 100% the equipment you are using.
A recorder unit uses 2 tuners, 1 for viewing tv and 1 for recording, so at anytime one or both could have issues and not work properly.
The fact that you can view recordings points to you having an issue with the viewing tuner not the recording tuner and definately not the signal being received.
advice from Jays Cabling Services a Digital Approved Installer.
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jb388:54 PM
Rina Miles: It would also have been of assistance if you had provided your location as you could be absolutely anywhere in the UK or NI, this in the form of a post code or at least one from nearby as its impossible to assess the signal levels expected in your area nor the transmitter they are coming from without this info.
Please also provide info on the model of recorder you are using.
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Saturday, 8 September 2012
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Malcolm Butler10:29 PM
We live in the Swanage area BH19/ BH20. We get our signal from Rowridge. We seem to get a very broken up picture on all stations when we get clear skies. This is usually about 9pm onwards.Back ok again next morning. This is consistant. We can try re-tuning and may get one or two stations but these easily drop out again very quickly. Lots of other people with same problem. This was happening before the switch over as well as after. Airiel is horizontal I think.
Please help. The better our weather the worse the picture (Late evenings only usually).
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Mark Fletcher11:26 PM
Halifax
Malcolm Butler.First of all i would consider repolarising your aerial from horizontal to vertical to counteract any single frequency interference issue that arises from Crystal Palace main transmitter which uses some exactly same multiplexes as that of Rowridge especially the COM multiplexes SDN,ArqA and ArqB all above are co-channel on frequencies 25,22 and 28 from both main masts.
Also while switching polarity check the tip of the aerial is red which denotes a group A aerial and the right aerial to use on all group A Rowridge transmitter especially in a poor/marginal signal area.
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