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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Monday, 19 June 2017
MikeP
10:44 AM
10:44 AM
David Lythe:
Can you get COM8 on channel 31? Plus, do you have a TV capable of receiving Freeview HD services?
If your response to either question is megative then you need a different TV or STB that is capable of recieving such. (HD ready set are not equipped to get the DVB-T2 transmissions, but the display can show HD images.)
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Monday, 3 July 2017
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Aaron Heywood7:39 PM
Hi! I live in gosport and cant get a tv signal! I cant put up an external aerial as renting, have tried 2 indoors aerials with no joy! I was reading that maybe the signal is too strong?? Can anyone help please?
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StevensOnln110:55 PM
Aaron Heywood: Please provide a full postcode so we can see where you are in relation to the transmitter and your predicted coverage etc. An indoor aerial is unlikely to have a problem with too much signal, as most are very inefficient and only work well in strong signal areas.
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Wednesday, 5 July 2017
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Colin Jager9:58 AM
Romsey
COM5 has gone down since Monday (extremely low or zero reception). Nothing else is affected and is working fine. External aerial has line of visible sight to transmitter SO51 6BN. Digital UK web site cites engineering works. Please could you clarify and expand?
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MikeB10:58 AM
Peterborough
Colin Jager: Check your leads again. Logically, Com 5 is broadcasting, but your not getting anything, so its you. Best guess - aerial lead or some connection is damaged or very loose, and that mux has gone, but the others are just hanging on. Damaged cables dont always loose the weakest signal first, which is why you have to check.
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Thursday, 6 July 2017
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Dave W12:08 AM
MikeB:
I am on holiday in Swanage since Saturday 1st July. My B&B TV got Dave originally, but not today. I rescanned twice, but no programmes in Com5 are there any more. No UHF channel 21. UHF channel 22 is "bad". Has Com5 been renamed BBCA as in your table? Wolfbane says Rowridge gives out both H and V polarisations, and aerials around me are all H. Maybe V would be OK?
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StevensOnln17:13 PM
Dave W: Transmitter changes at Rowridge do not take place until next year. I would suggest reporting the problem to the person running the B&B and asking them to check if any other TVs connected to the same aerial have lost Dave or any other channels.
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Friday, 7 July 2017
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Colin Jager8:35 AM
StevensOnln1: Dave W is reporting exactly the same problem as I have, most obviously with COM5. I also commented that Digital UK are reporting engineering works at Rowridge and asked for clarification / expansion as to what they are and how they could affect reception, but received no response to that element of my query. Something, however "minor" it may be perceived, is going on. Please can you elaborate?
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MikeP
11:01 AM
11:01 AM
Colin Jagger:
Only Digital UK or Arqiva could anser the question on what work is being performed at Rowridge. None has been reported to this website.
Consider, though, that the weather can have a significant effect on transmissions and is very selective of how they are affected.
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Saturday, 8 July 2017
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colin1951uk2:30 PM
I live in Eastleigh and haven't noticed any disruption to COM5 all week. I tend to watch Sky news during lunctimes and evenings and Movies4Men some evenings and both have been rock solid for me.
I have a horizontaly polarised aerial, but that shoudn't make any difference bearing in mind my distance from the transmitter.
Digital UK are reporting possible disruption to signal which may be the problem here but I think it's more likely to be the high pressure in the south which will interfere with some and not others (like me in this instance.)
NOTE FOR BRIAN: you are listing the output power of some of the Vertically Polarised Muxes as 50,000W whereas THEY SHOULD ALL be 200,000W. I've only just noticed it now otherwise I would have pointed it out before.
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