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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.

Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Rowridge (Isle Of Wight, England) mast?

Rowridge transmitter - Rowridge transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 25/03/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels Digital tick


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Which Freeview channels does the Rowridge transmitter broadcast?

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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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
 H max
C24 (498.0MHz)
320mDTG-200,000W
200,000W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) South, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
 H max
C27 (522.0MHz)
320mDTG-200,000W
200,000W
Channel icons
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian (South Coast micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Meridian south coast),

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
 H max
C21+ (474.2MHz)
320mDTG-200,000W
200,000W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

COM4
SDN
 H -6dB
 V -6dB
C25 (506.0MHz)
299mDTG-850,000W
50,000W
Channel icons
20 Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 Dave ja vu, 58 ITVBe +1, 59 ITV3 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 78 TCC, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 89 ITV4 +1, 91 WildEarth, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 267 Al Jazeera English, plus 30 others

COM5
ArqA
 H -6dB
 V -6dB
C22+ (482.2MHz)
302mDTG-850,000W
50,000W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 Yesterday +1, 75 That's 90s, 233 Sky News, plus 11 others

COM6
ArqB
 H -6dB
 V -6dB
C28 (530.0MHz)
302mDTG-850,000W
50,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 W, 27 Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! romance, 56 That's TV (UK), 61 GREAT! movies extra, 63 GREAT! romance mix, 71 That’s 60s, 73 HobbyMaker, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

LSO
 H -13dB
C37 (602.0MHz)299mDTG-1210,000W
Channel icons
from 22nd December 2014: 7 That's Solent,

DTG-8 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?

regional news image
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 26km north (354°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
regional news image
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 DocksTransposer2 km N city centre50 homes Estimate. Group of houses'

How will the Rowridge (Isle Of Wight, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1950s-80s1984-971997-981998-20122012-132 May 2018
VHFA K TA K TA K TA K TW T
C3BBCtvwaves
C21C4wavesC4wavesC4waves+BBCBBBCB
C22+ArqAArqA
C24BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCA
C25SDNSDN
C27ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C28ArqBArqB
C29LSO
C31BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavescom7
C37com8
C55tv_offcom7tv_off
C56tv_offCOM8tv_off

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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

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Rowridge transmitter area

Aug 1958-Jan 1992Southern Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992Television South (TVS)
Jan 1993-Feb 2004Meridian
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Rowridge was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Comments
Tuesday, 28 March 2017
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StevensOnln1
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12:09 PM

Martyn: If you had a good signal before with your aerial in horizontal polarity then turn the new one to horizontal and you should receive all the channels you had before.

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Wednesday, 26 April 2017
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2:32 PM

ROWRIDGE transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 12:10 today. [BBC]

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5:32 PM

ROWRIDGE transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 12:10 today to 14:05 today. [BBC]

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Thursday, 27 April 2017
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5:32 AM

ROWRIDGE transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 12:10 yesterday to 14:05 yesterday. [BBC]

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Friday, 28 April 2017
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5:32 AM

ROWRIDGE transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 12:10 on 26 Apr to 14:05 on 26 Apr. [BBC]

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Tuesday, 2 May 2017
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Helen wraith
11:48 AM

Please can you advise me. The last three weeks we have had hardly any signal on some stations i.e. Dave, sky news and others. we have retuned two of our free view TVs, now we have lost sky news all together. The aerial is in the loft and has been there for over thirty years, obviously updated to a digital aerial.

We are at a lost as what to do next. My postcode is Po89au.

Is there a problem in this area?

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StevensOnln1
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12:12 PM

Helen wraith: There is no such thing as a digital aerial, it's just a piece of metal that picks up signals and doesn't know or care what they are. If someone told you that you needed a new aerial specifically for digital TV then they were out to mislead you in to paying for a completely unnecessary new aerial if your old one was working fine for analogue channels. Retuning was a bad idea as you've now deleted the channels which were tuned correctly and leaves you with no easy way of knowing when the problem is fixed, unless you have another TV which still has Dave and Sky News showing in the TV guide?

The coverage prediction for your postcode shows that you should get a better signal for Dave, Sky News, etc if your aerial is mounted in the vertical polarity (i.e. with the little rods pointing up and down) rather than horizontal (little rods going side to side).

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JohnH
1:07 PM

First of all, I should say that my television aerial is an indoor one - I don't have an outdoor aerial. Reception of the majority of Freeview channels is absolutely fine.
Some time ago certain channels began pixelating and they disappeared. I made the mistake of rescanning and lost them altogether. Essentially, they were the channels on the lowest-powered multiplexes. About two months ago I rescanned - and got some of them back. My favourite - TalkingPicturesTV - was still missing. A couple of weeks ago all of those low-powered channels again began pixelating - and, again disappeared. Mysteriously, last week they were back. Atmospheric conditions, perhaps.
I could wait for some good, stable weather and scan again.
There are inconsistencies - based on the spread of channels shown on this web page. I now have That's Solent again - that's on the lowest-powered mux (10,000W). I have all channels on the 18,400W mux - though they do pixelate from time to time. I DON'T have any channel on the 24,400W mux.
Is there any way of asking the staff in Rowridge why certain channels are placed on certain multiplexes? Why is it that I can receive the one channel on the 10,000W mux, but can't receive any on the 24,400W one?

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Helen wraith
1:11 PM

StevensOnln1: Thanks Steven for getting back to me,. We do have two more TVs with free view on which we use mainly for virgin TV.. you are right in saying we have a good signal on most channels, on sky news there is a message weak or no signal coming up on screen. As it has been a problem for some time, is there any way of finding out when the problem will be fixed?

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StevensOnln1
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6:12 PM

JohnH: Capacity on the commercial multiplexes (COM4-8) is sold to broadcasters on a commercial basis by the multiplex operators. There is no other logic to which channels are allocated where, other than what level of coverage each broadcaster is able/willing to pay for. The local multiplexes use a different transmission mode which is more robust and may explain why you can receive it but not COM7/8.

Helen wraith: There are no faults showing for Rowridge, and being a major transmitter broadcasting to over 600,000 homes it certainly wouldn't be allowed to have a fault unresolved for several weeks. The problem is at your end and no one else is going to fix it unless you take action yourself. If you've checked all your cables and connections and the problem is affecting multiple TVs then it's likely that the fault lies with your aerial or spliiter/amplifier or the cabling that distributes the signal around your home.

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