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Rowridge (Isle Of Wight, England) transmitter
Wednesday 24 August 2011 10:59AM

Wednesday, 24 August 2011: BBC2, ITV1 and C4 (all analogue) went off air late last night. I note that there is engineering work over this week. Is it possible for you to state when stations will be off air?
I currently do not have digital. I will need to install an aerial or satellite dish first of all. That will not happen this week.
Thank you in advance for any information.

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I live in SO45 5QU and have little or no reception of BBC News HD, BBC FOUR HD, several other HD channels, 5USA+1 and TalkingPicturesTV. It is possible that these are on the same multiplex.

A couple of months ago I cleared the channel list and rescanned. All of the missing channels were then present. Gradually, over the past couple of weeks, all have become too weak to view.

I use an internal aerial and this has proved to be more than capable of very good reception right across Freeview.
Is there an explanation as to why I can't view these channels?

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Hi Mike,
To be honest I would expect to receive a fine reception using an indoor aerial. This is what was promised when we all went 'didgy' back in 2012. As to the bits you refer to - apologies, but I don't know what you're taking about. I don't know which lead is the 'fly lead' and I've no idea what a 'mux' is. My guess is that this is industry-speak for 'multiplex'. Would I be able to find a list of the actual multiplexes in the Rowridge transmitter?

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Thanks Richard,

The link you gave me has pin-pointed the 'mux' in question - "com7". All stations on that multiplex have become too weak to be seen. Would you know why that is? Would there be a way for this to be improved for me?

Cheers - John H

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Hi again Richard,

One other mux is weak as well - "LSO". It looks like the strength of the signal is related to the wattage. The standard looks like 200,000W. The two I have issues with are 24,400W and 10,000W respectively.

Cheers - John H

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BBC4 HD and several other channels are on Rowridges two lowest-powered multiplexes - namely 10,000 and 24,400 watts. As I only have an indoor aerial I can't receive any of the channels on the two muxes.
Strange, though, that during the Olympics BBC4 HD returned - with no problems. Now that the Games are over the HD channel has disappeared.
Is there any way for me to appeal to the 'powers-that-be' that run Rowridge to increase the power to these two muxes?
All other channels, on the 200,000 watt muxes, are fine. Installing an external aerial isn't an option for me.

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Hi StevensOnln1,
From what you're saying I can't receive COM7 or COM8 via my internal aerial. If these are due to close in 202 what will become of the stations they carry?
Obviously, I may have seriously look into an getting external aerial - and that's going to be difficult.
If I wasn't surrounded by trees I'd ditch Freeview in favour of Freesat :-(

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Hi again StevensOnln1,
Thank you for your help so far. In the web page that you directed me to the channels in question require "Freeview HD equipment". My television is about a year old and is HD. Do you know of any other equipment available that would allow me to receive the channels on COM7 and COM8?

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Hi MikeP,
I'll dig out my user manual - providing I can find the disk :-D As to aerial direction - mine's internal, so that might limit what I can receive.
In any event, thanks to you and StevensOnln1 for taking the time to answer my questions. Much appreciated.

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Good morning jb38,
Thank you for your recommendation. I am surrounded by trees, so that might cause problems with lower-powered muxes. My television is the Samsung 24E390. Doing a search through the manual I can't find any reference to DVB-T2. It is an HD television and the reception of the available HD channels - includding BBC1HD on channel 101 - via my indoor aerial is excellent. I'm not sure how to 'enter' C31 (COM7). I'll have a look later on this evening.

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