Full Freeview on the Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) transmitter
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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 18/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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.
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 Freeview channels does the Salisbury 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
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?
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 32km east-southeast (120°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
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?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 18 Apr 2018 | |||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | C/D E T | K T | |||
| C23 | _local | ||||||||
| C29 | SDN | ||||||||
| C31 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C37 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C41 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C44 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C47 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C51tv_off | _local | _local | _local | ||||||
| C53tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||
| C55tv_off | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | ||||||
| C57tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | |||
| C59tv_off | -ArqA | -ArqA | -ArqA | ||||||
| C60tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | |||
| C62 | SDN | ||||||||
| C63 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C68 | C5waves | C5waves |
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 | 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 |
Local transmitter maps
Salisbury Freeview Salisbury DAB Salisbury AM/FM 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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Wednesday, 4 April 2012
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Hugh5:49 PM
Salisbury
Hi,
I have a freeview HD ready TV, and have recieved regular freeview for a number of months, but despite trying retuning the television repeatedly, it is still not receiving freeview HD channels. It receives (as far as I can tell) all of the regular channels. The aerial elements are vetically aligned and pointed towards the salisbury transmitter
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Hugh's: mapH's Freeview map terrainH's terrain plot wavesH's frequency data H's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Hugh: "HD Ready" means that it is "ready" to display HD pictures, but does not have the means to receive HD signals. It will therefore need a separate HD receiver box.
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Thursday, 5 April 2012
Dave: Channel 5 on analogue closed on schedule. I put a video on the comments at Wednesday 21 March 2012 12:24AM on the Switchover "completes" for Southampton, Portsmouth and Brighton | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice page.
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Sunday, 29 April 2012
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Terry5:25 PM
Salisbury
Can you tell me why I cannot pick up the freeview HD channels from the Salisbury transmitter. I have two HD TVs with build in freeview but neither of them pick up channels 50,51,52 or 54 which I understand are the HD channels which are transmitted on C53 (BBCB I think). I have a wideband aerial for each TV both set on vertical. All other channels received fine.
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Terry's: mapT's Freeview map terrainT's terrain plot wavesT's frequency data T's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jb385:50 PM
Terry: I can see two possible reasons for your problem, the first being that as you are relatively close to the transmitter the signal could be excessively high to the extent that its blocking the tuners in your TV's, that problem always showing up first on HD before SD, so if you have a set top aerial around then plug that into one of your sets and give it a manual tune on Ch53 the HD mux.
The second possibility being that your TV's are "HD Ready" types, and if so these sets cannot actually receive HD but only display it from an external source, so have a look at the manual / specifications / tuner and check if DVB-T2 is seen next to the tuner, if its only DVB-T then thats SD only.
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Monday, 3 December 2012
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RichardH9:10 PM
According to the channel allocation chart above, Salisbury is going to lose the SDN multiplex next year. with all this chopping and changing how are the public meant to keep up? Or is it jsut a cunning plan to encourage people to use Freesat? Then we could turn off all our terrestrial tv transmitters.
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KMJ,Derby9:45 PM
RichardH: Not quite. The frequency of SDN from Salisbury changes to C50 in May 2013. There is incomplete information above for frequency changes in future years, partly because plans are still being worked on by Ofcom and Arqiva. There is a conference for worldwide spectrum planning in 2015, after which it should become clearer what changes to expect.
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Monday, 21 January 2013
C
Chris Read7:05 AM
No transmission because of weather or technical fault w/e 20/01/13?
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Thursday, 27 June 2013
T
Trebinski9:41 PM
I live in middle woodford. I have 2 questions.
1) Why do we have a very poor BBC signal at 0630hrs when ITV, 4 & 5 are OK? Afternoon and evenings are OK.
2) Why have we lost all signal for all stations tonight (27 June) on both TVs and the HUMAX using both a dish and a rooftop aerial?
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