Full Freeview on the Rowridge (Isle Of Wight, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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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
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Saturday, 8 June 2019
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Alan Goreon1:08 PM
Double Trouble. From here, beyond Rowridge and in direct line, is Brest. In line the other way, beyond Whotehawk is Amiens or thereacbbouts. At 86 I am not strong enough to push my bungalow upmthe hill!. It is usually when weather is fine and there is a lift on that we get interference, particularly Chan 20.
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Sunday, 16 June 2019
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Ken Baugh7:16 AM
PO369BN Sandown Isle of Wight. Presume Rowridge is our transmitter ( I can see it from my widow and aerial points at it)
Very poor reception on BBC 1 and 2 this morning
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Friday, 2 August 2019
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David Tyler6:11 PM
I cant receive bbc4 hd, bbc news hd or anything on com7 or com8. All other channels being received with excellent reception and no picture break up. Home is Southbourne, Bournemouth.
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Saturday, 3 August 2019
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Chris.SE6:39 AM
David Tyler:
I can't see any reports of transmitter problems at present, hopefully your signals have returned. If you put your postcode into Digital UK - Coverage checker it should show the predicted reception at your location. Especially as COMs 7&8 are on lower power compared to the other multiplexes, it's possible that since other transmitter changes on the 31st July now sharing the same channels as part of a SFN (Single Frequency Network) you may have interference particularly with the current weather conditions.
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Saturday, 10 August 2019
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John Hughes6:37 PM
FreeSports is advertised as being on Channel number 95 FreeSports | Freeview However you have it down as CH 64 here: https://ukfree.tv/transmi…dge.
All the usual wipe before rescan has been done several times but still no FreeSports. All comments welcome, even blue ones
Many Thanks.
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Chris.SE7:00 PM
Wisbech
John Hughes:
You have looked at a page which unfortunately is out of date. The Freeview site doesn't seem to be that clever with keeping some pages like that up-to-date. See Digital UK | Channel listings for what is generally an up-to-date list of channels and on which multiplex.
As it's on the COM8 (HD) multiplex you need an HD (T2) tuner to get it.
Also put your postcode into Digital UK - Coverage checker to see predicted reception at your location to make sure you can receive the signal ok.
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Chris.SE's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 11 August 2019
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John Hughes10:06 AM
Chris.SE: Many thanks Chris
My Samsung series 5 is HD T2 (DVB-T2) and reception, here at about 25m above sea level with a clear view towards Rowridge at Worthing, is excellent on other HD channels.
As FreeSport is a new channel I can understand there is some confusion whether the broadcast channel is 64 or not, and the same applying to the multiplex channel Com 8, C37 or C59. However it doesn't matter how much retuning I do I can't find this channel is it live yet?
Regards
John.
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John Hughes10:07 AM
Chris.SE: Many thanks Chris
My Samsung series 5 is HD T2 (DVB-T2) and reception, here at about 25m above sea level with a clear view towards Rowridge at Worthing, is excellent on other HD channels.
As FreeSport is a new channel I can understand there is some confusion whether the broadcast channel is 64 or not, and the same applying to the multiplex channel Com 8, C37 or C59. However it doesn't matter how much retuning I do I can't find this channel is it live yet?
Regards
John.
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I have lost the signal for quite a few HD channels, Smithsonia, and even Drama is interrupted every night. I have a Sony Brava Free view. It is worrying. What can I do. It happened before. In 2012 I had to buy a brand new TV, the old one was also a Sony, but I had a box.
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Chris.SE6:24 PM
John Hughes:
There shouldn't be any confusion if you click on those links in my last message for you. You need to check the predicted reception at your location. Freesport has been at LCN64 since Nov.2018 (it started at LCN95 in Nov.2017), so yes it's up and running and COMs 7&8 are transmitting from Rowridge.
The issue you MAY have is that COMs 7&8 are only temporary multiplexes and are now SFNs (Single Frequency Networks) on C58 & C59 at all transmitters that transmit these two, which means that in some locations more on the periphery of the coverage area may get too much interference from another transmitter. Are you getting COM 7 or 8 at all? If you are getting the muxes, I'd suggest a full reset/retune by unplugging your aerial, do an automatic tune - this will clear all previous tuning, then plug the aerial back in and do a manual tune for the UHF channels used by the Rowridge Horizontal polarisation transmissions. You do need a wideband aerial to get all the multiplexes.
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