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
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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Wednesday, 15 January 2014
Steve Baker: The channels most people miss from Freesat are the UKTV ones (Dave, Drama, Yesterday, and Really) plus Quest and 4Music.
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Thursday, 16 January 2014
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alnero2@sky.com8:37 AM
Briantist, you beat me to it. Can you get that MIMO
antenna as a grouped or log design, or even both.
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Friday, 17 January 2014
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Solent-Viewer3:35 PM
Anyone lost just Frewview CH 19? I've got all the rest and 19 has gone AWOL.
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TimW8:21 PM
New Milton
am I missing something here, Rowridge transmitter signal is strongest on vertical polarity across all frequencies, however, the new HD channels promised are only going to be on horizontal, who thought of that, and how many aerials will have to be switched to HP, and at what cost to the licence payer who has to fork out
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TimW's: mapT's Freeview map terrainT's terrain plot wavesT's frequency data T's Freeview Detailed Coverage
TimW:
It doesn't really matter.
I personally would sacrifice the new HD channels for a better service on the mass of channels and keep aerials on VP rather than the old HP.
I would suggest people forgot about the new hd channels, they will be outputted at such poor levels most people will struggle to receive them anyway.
Who want cbebbies HD anyway.
:)
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Saturday, 18 January 2014
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Steve Baker11:21 AM
Well in my experience, kids don't give a hoot about HD.
So long as they can watch the programme that's all they care about, and it's only really because of timesharing with BBC3 & 4 that the kids stuff is in HD anyway.
As a VP user I'd have preferred BBC4-HD on the PSB-B mux, but sadly that's not to be, which is why I'm going Freesat instead.
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TimW: Read postings above yours, including the reply from Arqiva, which is the company that runs the transmitters.
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mort9:48 PM
in the same state as SolentViewer
I have lost chanel 19 and everything from that Mux
live near selsey
any ideas?
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Sunday, 19 January 2014
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Solent-Viewer8:43 AM
Chichester
Having seen your message Mort, I checked all of mux that serves 19 and all of that section has gone for me too. I did a full retune and the TV could not find any of them. Summat must have gone wrong at the transmitter!
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Solent-Viewer's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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