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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Friday, 31 January 2014
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Bill from Fordingbridge2:45 PM
Re my recent post.
For some reason this web site keeps showing my transmitter as Salisbury. This is wrong. I am on Rowridge, Salisbury, though closer, offers no advantage over Rowridge in my location.
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Peter Challis6:45 PM
It may be sometime before the additional HD channels from Rowridge start. I sent Digital UK an email as I had been expecting them to start this month,
There response was "The Com7 HD frequency from the Rowridge transmitter has not launched yet. This is due to happen before July, in time for the commonwealth games. I would advise you to regularly check the above link, as the details are updated and a firm date will be added as soon as we are informed."
The link referenced was using their detailed coverage checker at Digital UK - Coverage checker (BN412HT)
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Monday, 3 February 2014
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Bill from Fordingbridge10:16 AM
Took advantage of yesterday's fine weather spell to realign aerial to vertical polarity and replace cable to MHA. The cable was the main fault. Cracked in several places with broken braiding in one place, with the cable just hanging on the central conductor. Rain obviously completed the circuit to enable days of good signal strength and quality on all muxes!
What mystifies me is why, throughout, the BBC Channel 24 mux remained good signal strength and quality. To quote the aerialsandtv.com web site "RF reception really is a black art, not a science"!
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Friday, 14 February 2014
Alan Rowe
7:53 AM
Southampton
7:53 AM
Southampton
If you throw two stones into still water the circular waves spread out and where the two circles meet, there are
points where the waves cancel each other out. When it comes to UHF waves, the two stones represent the transmitter and a reflected echo from anything in the line of sight, usually there are, especially in cities, myriads of reflections. So when putting up an antenna, there are dead spots. Moving the mount of an aerial, say 12" in
any direction, can make a vast difference. This is one of the reasons why installers use Crank or Swan Neck poles. That's why because you can't see the waves, unless you have a signal analyser, it is called a ' black art '
Sometimes I go to jobs and I drop the aerial lower down and there is drastic improvement in the BER reading.
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Tuesday, 18 February 2014
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Richard6:52 AM
Eastleigh
Just changed on Digitaluk (from January 2014), the Rowridge transmitter is due to get the extra HD channels on 4th March.
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Saturday, 8 March 2014
Why has Rowridge so far got COM7, but not COM8? Will COM8 come to fruition or not? If they've abandoned COM8, why not use the equipment and frequencies originally intended for COM8 to increase COM7 to all the 80 "full Freeview" transmitters - i.e. ones that carry SDN, ArqA and ArqB?
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Wednesday, 12 March 2014
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bryfly4:03 PM
Waterlooville
Turned my aerial back to horizontal with masthead amp, so now I can receive the channels on com7, Im in post code po7 6be using Rowridge transmitter, the signal strength is not very good though, guess this is due to the 25,000W power, is this the maximum it will transmit in.
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Thursday, 13 March 2014
bryfly -
in your location you will end up with issues on other muxes too, I find installing near you difficult for reception on HP so always use VP.
I would put it back to VP and sacrifice the new coms.
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bryfly9:01 PM
@ Jamie . thanks for the tip, will see how it goes, no problems so far, in the loft with amp ,guess I must be in a better part of my post code. Do you know if the output is going to remain at 25000 w
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Friday, 14 March 2014
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Ginger3:52 PM
Brighton
Up until now I have not had any problems receiving Rowridge on HP.
The new COM7 came on air and again, no problem, all channels including the weaker COM7 coming through clear with good signal quality.
According to this site, engineering works were going on and as predicted I had some loss of channels at times. However, according to site information, the engineering works have now finished, but I am getting big fluctuations in signal quality (interestingly not strength which still remains good). It can go from 100% to nothing and just stay like that for hours.
Is anybody else having this problem? Does anybody know if the engineering is overunning, or is there another problem here.
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