Full Freeview on the Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) transmitter which serves 31,000 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 Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) mast?
Salisbury transmitter - Salisbury transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 18/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which Freeview channels does the Salisbury 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Salisbury transmitter?
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 32km east-southeast (120°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.6%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 44km east-southeast (116°)
to ITV Meridian (South Coast) region - 39 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian plus Oxford
How will the Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 18 Apr 2018 | |||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | C/D E T | K T | |||
| C23 | _local | ||||||||
| C29 | SDN | ||||||||
| C31 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C37 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C41 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C44 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C47 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C51tv_off | _local | _local | _local | ||||||
| C53tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||
| C55tv_off | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | ||||||
| C57tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | |||
| C59tv_off | -ArqA | -ArqA | -ArqA | ||||||
| C60tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | |||
| C62 | SDN | ||||||||
| C63 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C68 | C5waves | C5waves |
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 | 10kW | |
| Analogue 5, SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 2kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C* | (-10dB) 1000W | |
| Mux D* | (-11.9dB) 640W | |
| Mux 2* | (-14.9dB) 320W |
Local transmitter maps
Salisbury Freeview Salisbury DAB Salisbury AM/FM 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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Saturday, 24 June 2017
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Richardh11:06 PM
It's not the choice of aerials, I am going for log-periodics. I live 12 miles north-west of Salisbury in an area with overlapping regional coverage, currently I use Mendip for 'west' programmes and Rowridge for 'south' but 'lift' conditions can cause the 'south' programmes to disappear and also the TV can auto-tune to French channels. If I knew which channels Salisbury was going to use I may be able to use a suitable diplexer to use Salisbury transmitter for 'south' programmes.
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Sunday, 25 June 2017
MikeP
11:22 AM
11:22 AM
Richard H:
You should examine the map near the top of this page, identify where you live and then see if the Salisbury transmitter is receivable at your location. The hilly parts of Salisbury Plain may be a problem for reliable reception, especially as the Salisbury transmitter is not a very powerful one for any multiplex. Note, for example, that it is not receivable in Shrewton nor along most of the A36 westwards towards Stapleton and Warminster.
Reception of French transmissions is not unusual if your aerial points in a southerly direction, especially during periods of Troposheric Lift which is not uncommon in hot weather. That causes signals, not just TV ones to travel further than is normally expected. It is a perfectly natural phenomenon.
Briantist did have a page on theis website suggesting the frequencies that might be used for a wide range of TV transmitters, I'm not sure what the URL for that would be - maybe another contributor could direct you to it. That would assist in determining what channels you would potentially be using then.
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Thursday, 9 November 2017
Transmitter engineering: There is currently no freeview tv or radio in the salisbury area and cannot see any engneering work taking place today on this mast or the rowridge transmitter. I was wondering if yo know of any issues or when they are likely to be fixed
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Dorothy Bunsee11:05 AM
I have no T.v reception at all- screen shows No Signal and all connections are correct. Next door neighbours shows the same. Set up shows no signal coming from the transmitter. SP 2 9LJ.
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js12:17 PM
Dorothy Bunsee: There's a report at the top of the page now:
"SALISBURY transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 09:26 today,"
It doesn't say when it's coming back though.
I thought we'd done DSO already.
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Bill D3:59 PM
SpireFM say that engineering work is taking place on the Salisbury transmitter from today (9.11.17) until Monday. Work will take place between 9am and 5pm, and the transmitter may be down for up to an hour at a time during that period.
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Friday, 10 November 2017
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Jackie tothill8:10 PM
I live in wiltonand I've not had any TVs for 3 days I have tried the unplug and leave for a few minutes but nothing ,I would just like to know when I can expect it back on
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StevensOnln111:18 PM
Jackie tothill: Engineering work at Salisbury has been taking place during daytime only and won't be taking place over the weekend. Have you attempted to retune your TV whilst you had no signal? If you did, this will have deleted all of your channels (retuning when there is a problem is always a bad idea).
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Sunday, 19 November 2017
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Andy Rollins6:37 PM
StevensOnln1: we live in laverstock salisbury Sp11RZ and for a while now we have had signal problems on every channel apart from the HD channels.
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StevensOnln16:46 PM
Andy Rollins: Have you checked for any loose or damaged cables or connections? What signal strength and quality readings do you get on BBC1, ITV and BBC1HD? There has been recent engineering work at the Salisbury transmitter, however that looks to have been completed on 10th November.
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