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 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-6 256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4
DTG-8 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 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-6 256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4
DTG-8 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 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 2 May 2018 | ||
| VHF | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | W T | ||
| C3 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C21 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | +BBCB | +BBCB | +BBCB | BBCB | ||
| C22 | +ArqA | +ArqA | +ArqA | ArqA | |||||
| C24 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | ||
| C25 | SDN | SDN | SDN | SDN | |||||
| C27 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||
| C28 | +B | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | ||||
| C29 | LSO | LSO | |||||||
| C30 | -A | ||||||||
| C31 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | com7 | com7 | ||||
| C32 | +2 | ||||||||
| C33 | +D | ||||||||
| C34 | 1 | ||||||||
| C37 | +C | com8 | com8 | ||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | com8tv_off |
tv_off Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) by 30 June 2020 - 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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Friday, 11 October 2019
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Keith9:03 AM
I have lost all Com 4 (Ch25) channels from Rowridge in the last week or so. I've tried the resets and all other channels are fine with a good signal strength. Suggestions?
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Tuesday, 15 October 2019
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John Hughes5:19 PM
Keith:
Broadcast CH25 Yesterday and all the other stations on COM 6 are fine here in Worthing. Could I suggest you do another scan, but this time with no aerial plugged in so as to clear the list. Once confirmed it is clear do another rescan.
Hope it helps
John H.
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Friday, 18 October 2019
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Stuart Tier12:02 PM
Southampton
Quest+1 has been displaying no programme info for the past few days. All other channels seem ok. The channel is still listed as Freeview ch76 on the Quest website. Have I missed retune notice? My postcode is SO32 2RR.
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StevensOnln12:02 PM
Stuart Tier: Quest+1 moved multiplex a few weeks ago and is now broadcasting full time on Freeview, rather than just in the evenings. You may need to retune if you haven't done so recently.
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Wednesday, 23 October 2019
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Rod Thomas1:42 PM
Channels on Mux Com6 are breaking up. Signal strength is not stable fluctuating between 0and 93%.
All other channels are ok.
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Chris.SE2:48 PM
Rod Thomas:
Without a full postcode to see what the DigitalUK checker About us | Freeview is giving for predicted reception at your location, we can't give any constructive advice on reception other than to check all you coax plugs, connections, flyleads etc, unplug connectors check for corrosion or other problems and reconnect them. See what signal strengths and quality you are getting for the multiplexes shown in your TV's tuning section. Also check that your downlead looks undamaged and that your aerial seems intact and pointing in the correct direction.
Problematic connections, water ingress etc. can seem to affect reception of just an individual or several multiplexes.
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Thursday, 12 December 2019
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Philip Lyons11:22 AM
I am unable to get Channel 27 (ITV1, C4 etc). The aerial is in the loft and is aligned to Rowridge. I am is SO31
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Chris.SE12:33 PM
Philip Lyons:
There doesn't seem to be any reports of transmitter problems either by the BBC or Freeview and there's no Planned Maintenance listed.
See my post prior to yours, then unplug the aerial and carry out a full automatic retune. This should clear all previous tuning as no channels will be found. Plug the aerial back in and then carry out a retune, either automatically if that normally works for you without picking up other transmitters, otherwise tune manually using the UHF channels for Rowridge.
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Tuesday, 28 January 2020
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John4:08 PM
Sorry posted this in error on the Whitehawk Hill section.
Re Rowridge COM 5 CH 22 Horz has been either on low / no power for many days, yet vertical polarisation strengh in Worthing has been 100%
I have both H and V aerials installed so I can switch between the two during times of co-channel interference.
As there's no engineering reports of problems has anyone got any ideas.
Many thanks John.
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Chris.SE11:07 PM
John:
As it's a COM multiplex carrying no BBC channels, there's no reports from the BBC of any problems. And it comes as no surprise to me that I can't find anything reported by Freeview! There's no Planned Engineering listed either. There's no Tropospheric Propagation predicted either (and none present AFAIK). You could try phoning Freeview 0808-100-0288 option 3 but I'm not convinced they'll take any notice unless they've had several reports! Arqiva have never given the impression that they are very forthcoming with fault reports, so I'm afraid your guess is as good as mine.
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