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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Thursday, 5 April 2018
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StevensOnln12:07 PM
R Murchie: How exactly is it poor behaviour when the money raised from the spectrum will repay the cost of providing free replacement aerials to affected households? If you only have Freeview you aren't being expected to pay for a new aerial.
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Jeddy S2:53 PM
@Gary Calder, it was my Humax Fox T2 which I had to manually tune to channel 56 with DVB-T2 to get BBC Four HD - no idea why the auto tune didn't pick it up, but it didn't, it went through the channels twice.
@Jonathan Barham - 88 for two new aerials? I spent around 12 (although I see it's no longer discounted so is now 17 for a Labgear TV Aerial High Gain 48-Element from screwfix. I'm supposedly in a 'good' signal area - although that's up for debate if you ask me.
Having said which I'm still annoyed that a BBC HD channel was moved to a non band A channel - as has been said before, why not move 'the trash' which few watch to the high channels. BBC, ITV, C4 and C5 should be left alone. Also Dave, More4 and Quest but I'm prepared to accept others regard those as trash.
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it would seem that com 8 on channel 56 has been off air since Wed evening, I phoned Freeview helpline to query and they confirmed it.
Their suggestion was that I do a manual re-tune on that frequency , a bit daft since there was NO signal to tune to, however the signal returned about 4pm today
It would be nice if problems like this could be flagged better to prevent viewers rushing to replace aerials and/or down-leads. we used to get a message on-screen informing us of signal problems or engineering work, as it was all websites continued to say there were no faults or work on Rowridge.
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Gary Calder6:18 PM
Tim Wardlaw:
I don't bleeding believe it. <SCREAM!!!!>.
Well that explains all my problems.
One might have assumed that after the frequency switchover they (Ofcom, UKDigital, Arqiva, BBC etc. etc.) would have made sure that everything was running 100% to minimise any possible problems for viewers while they were having to retune. Clearly not - I expect they were far too busy slapping each other on the back, raising a glass or two and counting the millions from the 5G auctions.
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Friday, 6 April 2018
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Jeddy S12:11 PM
It looks like we'll all need to retune again on 2nd May, well, unless you don't need
BBC News HD, 4+1HD, 4-7 HD plus another 16 stations which I don't watch.
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MikeP
12:13 PM
12:13 PM
R Murchie:
If you look at the website stated, that is what it will tell you. I knew that already and have previously posted as such here many, many times.
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Gary Calder4:21 PM
StevensOnln1:
It is poor behaviour because the coverage of the COM8 mux on CH56 from Rowridge is much less than it was previously. So not even a free wideband aerial will solve the problem for those affected. License fee payers are entitled to ask why access to this BBC channel has been removed apparently in preference to commercial channels. Perhaps the BBC didn't pay enough money and were relegated to COM8, who knows?
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StevensOnln17:15 PM
Gary Calder: BBC Four HD has not been removed in preference to any commercial channel. It was reported earlier this year that the BBC volunteered to move CBeebies HD & BBC Four HD to COM8 as capacity needed to be reduced on COM7 and COM8 in order to increase the guard interval so that they could become single frequency networks (COM8 has far fewer channels than COM7 and there isn't enough capacity available for another HD channel on any other mux). COM7 & COM8 are temporary commercial muxes which have never offered any guarantee of coverage to anyone. COM7 will be moving to UHF channel 55 at Rowridge on 2nd May, with Digital UK reporting that it will get a slight increase in power.
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Tuesday, 10 April 2018
M
Mayzes9:20 AM
Done a new installation scan and is keep it country ch87 available now...or delayed..
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Wednesday, 2 May 2018
M
M.Davis11:02 AM
Why is there NO mention of CH 55 and CH 56 on Rowridge on 2nd may in the chart of Rowridge frequencies changes?
Are you having problems keeping you website up to date?
You're just not very clever....
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