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, 21 March 2014
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steve baker2:16 PM
Bryfly. If you're not having any problems then just leave it and enjoy. I think the 25,000W is the final power for Com7, at least for now.
Ginger. Yes I has problems with COM7 signal sporadically disappearing through the day last week. I originally thought it was the high pressure weather, but it seems to have been fine again all this week, so perhaps they were doing some engineering after all?
It's something I'm monitoring anyway, so we'll just have to see. :)
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Monday, 24 March 2014
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Bob Eades12:41 PM
Briantist:
Not sure what's happened but retuned set and got additional HD channels, aerial set to vertical polarity as had problems Comm4 with HP, thought only TX on HP?
Bob Eades
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Sunday, 30 March 2014
I have given up trying to get my full Freeview service from Roweridge transmitter & turned my aerial around & scanned until I received a reasonable signal.
However, unless my geography is way out my aerial seems to be pointing in the wrong direction from my house in Weymouth and to the south west not towards the Stockland Hill transmitter which would be more to the north west , but the channels 22,23, 25, 26 & 29 seem to tally with Stockland.
Is there any way I can tell where the signal is coming from?
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Idris Martin: Some receivers give network/region names, these names being the principal coverage areas of the transmitters.
Your difficulty may be caused by the fact that the three COM multiplexes of Stockland and Rowridge are co-channel. You don't have line-of-sight with either stations. The Isle of Purbeck is in your way for Rowridge.
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Monday, 31 March 2014
Dave Lindsay:
My aerial does not point towards either Rowridge or Stockland Hill that is what is confusing me.
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jb389:25 PM
Idris Martin: You cannot use channels 22 / 25 or 28 for the purpose of determining the origin of the signal you are receiving because as Dave Lindsay has said these channel numbers are common to both Rowridge and Stockland Hill, although as DL has also mentioned some receivers indicate network / region names on a signal strength test.
Therefore the only way of finding out the info required is by carrying out a signal strength test on your BBC and ITV channels, Rowridges BBC-C24 / ITV -C27, Stockland Hills BBC-C26 / ITV - C23.
As far as aerial direction is concerned, should your aerial be facing Rowridge then Stockland Hill will be picked up on approximately (as its roughly 30° out) on the reverse of the aerial, and of course vice-versa, but in non line-of-sight situations such as yours signals can sometimes be picked up at different angles to that expected due to reflections from hills etc.
By the way, Rowridge is located @ 47miles / 85°, and with Stockland @ 31miles / 294°, your reception predictions not being particularly good from either station.
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jb389:36 PM
Idris Martin : Just in case you are wondering, please ignore the A after the degree angle number, as this is something that has automatically appeared in recent times ever since Briantists site came back on after having been off for a day due to a fault having occurred.
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jb38: Sorry, there IS a problem with the UTF-8 encoding system. I need to get to the bottom of it. I have done a temporary fix for the moment.
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Tuesday, 1 April 2014
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jb387:36 AM
Briantist: Many thanks! much appreciated, as "some" people might possibly interpret this as some technical abbreviation rather than simply being a glitch, it also appearing on pound signs.
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jb38: I did notice that I got a receipt from a shop the other day that had the same problem. Everything on the site is supposed to be in UTF-8 UTF-8 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia but for some reason it gets into the database OK, but the output isn't being treated as UTF-8.
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