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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Sunday, 7 May 2023
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Chris.SE10:17 PM
Peter Goodhugh:
The Salisbury transmitter is on Harnham Hill, but there are several transmitters that could be received in your postcode.
Which local news do you get? South Today/Meridian or West/West Country?
And which way is your aerial pointing - compass bearing 186 degrees - fractionally W of due S, with its rods (or squashed Xs) vertical, or is it 276 degrees - fractionally N of due W. If it's the former, that's Salisbury, the latter is Mendip (West). But you might also get Hannington, roughly ENE with rods horizontal.
Depending on where you are within your postcode - lower numbers not doing as well, predictions show you signal could be good to variable, but a lot will depend on aerial height and any very local obstructions (buildings, tree etc).
There are no currently reported faults at the Salisbury transmitter, however, bearing in mind your predicted signal might be variable, recent weather conditions meant that you may have had interference,, with signals from distant transmitters.
If you retuned at all when you had no signal or badly pixellated pictures (never advised), very often this can just clear your previous correct tuning, however it's unusual for such interference to affect all multiplexes as it's usually frequency dependent.
Do you still have no signal?
If you still have no signal, check that everything is correctly plugged in behind your TV and the aerial socket, and check that the aerial is still pointing correctly and the downlead isn't flapping in the wind.
If you didn't retune before and still have no signal, and your aerial looks ok, you may have a fault on your aerial system - do you have any aerial amplifier/splitter?
Check in your TV Tuning section that you are correctly tuned to Salisbury's UHF channels (as listed at the top of the page).
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Saturday, 3 June 2023
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Tony Kemp5:02 PM
I live in the Salisbury area and keep getting fewer and fewer channels on my Digital reception. I have checked the antenna and cable and can see no damage, but it is better on some days and worse on others. is there any reason for this, some people on our Neighborhood apps are also reporting issues so Im not alone. one possibility being mentioned is 5G but Im not even sure it's in our locations, but I could be wrong
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Chris.SE10:44 PM
Tony Kemp:
If you provide a full postcode we may be able to advise if Mobile interference is a possibility.
Can you be more specific about your channels affected?
Are your neighbours experiencing problems on exactly the same channels?
You say some days are worse than others. When (roughly) did this start?
Have you been retuning at all ? (that is NOT a suggestion to do so!)
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Monday, 30 September 2024
Transmitter engineering
5:06 PM
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Salisbury transmitter - Salisbury transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 30/09/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 7 October 2024
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
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Salisbury transmitter - Salisbury transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 07/10/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 14 October 2024
Transmitter engineering
10:48 AM
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Salisbury transmitter - Salisbury transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 14/10/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 21 October 2024
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Salisbury transmitter - Salisbury transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 21/10/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 18 November 2024
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Salisbury transmitter - Salisbury transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 18/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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