Full Freeview on the Rowridge (Isle Of Wight, England) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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50.676,-1.369 or 50°40'35"N 1°22'7"W

PO30 4HT

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.

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name

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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.

Mux	H/V	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	V max H max	C24 (498.0MHz)	320m	DTG-	200,000W 200,000W
	1 BBC One (SD) South, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others
PSB2 D3+4	V max H max	C27 (522.0MHz)	320m	DTG-	200,000W 200,000W
	3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian (South Coast micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Meridian south coast), 71 That’s 60s,
PSB3 BBCB	V max H max	C21+ (474.2MHz)	320m	DTG-	200,000W 200,000W
	46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others 66 TBN UK,
COM4 SDN	H -6dB V -6dB	C25 (506.0MHz)	299m	DTG-8	50,000W 50,000W
	20 U&Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 U&Dave ja vu, 58 ITV3 +1, 59 ITV4 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 91 WildEarth, 93 ITVBe +1, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 251 Al Jazeera English, 255 FRANCE 24 (in English), 265 Rok Sky +1, plus 29 others
COM5 ArqA	H -6dB V -6dB	C22+ (482.2MHz)	302m	DTG-8	50,000W 50,000W
	11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 U&Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 U&Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 &UYesterday +1, 76 That's TV 2 MCR, 233 Sky News, plus 13 others
COM6 ArqB	H -6dB V -6dB	C28 (530.0MHz)	302m	DTG-8	50,000W 50,000W
	12 Quest, 25 U&W, 27 U&Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 63 GREAT! romance mix, 73 HobbyMaker, 75 That's 90s, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others
LSO	H -13dB	C37 (602.0MHz)	299m	DTG-12	10,000W
	from 22nd December 2014: 7 That's Solent,

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	2 May 2018
	VHF	A K T	A K T	A K T	A K T	W T
C3	BBCtv_waves
C21		C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves	+BBCB	BBCB
C22					+ArqA	ArqA
C24		BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBCA	BBCA
C25					SDN	SDN
C27		ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	D3+4	D3+4
C28					ArqB	ArqB
C29						LSO
C31		BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves		com7
C37						com8
C55_{tv_off}						com7_{tv_off}
C56_{tv_off}						COM8_{tv_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

Aug 1958-Jan 1992	Southern Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992	Television South (TVS)
Jan 1993-Feb 2004	Meridian
Feb 2004-Dec 2014	ITV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Rowridge was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

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Amy
5:08 PM
Bournemouth

Hello,
I've just moved to Bournemouth, bh7 6ha.
I've got a tv,a box and an indoor , they are all plugged in but when I turn it all on and for it cant find any, what should I do?

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KMJ,Derby

_{sentiment_satisfied}Gold

5:56 PM

Amy: are very hit and miss for . You are in a reasonably strong signal area but you would still have to find a position in the room where there is any signal. Close to a window which faces the direction of the is usually favourite. Even so different positions might have to be found for each and people moving about in the room could affect reception. You would really be best advised to have an outdoor aerial fitted if this is possible. Are you able to receive transmissions using your indoor aerial? This would give an indication whether digital reception might be possible after .

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Briantist

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8:58 AM

Peter Making: I would check Freeview intermittent interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice - the higher signals may or may not improve the situation, it depends on the reason for the problem you have in the first place.

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Mike Dimmick

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3:04 PM

Peter Making: You're currently predicted to get variable on some multiplexes - this is expected to improve to good reception on all multiplexes after completes.

The official 'step 2' is on 21 March 2012, but the commercial multiplexes have to stay on their current and levels until 18 April 2012 as the new channels clash with transmissions from .

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San
9:23 PM
Bournemouth

We have several TV's on our which has direct line of sight to the at . However two weeks ago we lost all ITV on one TV only, we have rescanned and added a direct to it which has boosted the from 46% to 74% and still the auto tune does not see those channels, jumping from channel 2 to 7. We previously had a good signal for those channels on all TVs,the TV affected has nothing else attached to it? Any ideas?

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Paul
9:52 PM

UHF 30 (containing Quest, Challenge, Gold, ITV3 etc) is showing low strength and giving poor in Bournemouth between town centre and , close to the Wessex Way (BH2 6**) as of now.

Newly installed (by CAI approved) log parabolic with booster. I doubt it has direct line of sight as there are trees across the road.

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David Sunnucks
2:56 PM

We have a caravan park in Sandown IOW and cannot get a good is there any way this will improve as we seem to have lost a lot of strength for itv and chan 4 this year. We are running Group a and Philux megaboost with minimal success. We have a range of TV's from 20year old Matsui CRT (best picture) to LG 19"lcd purchased last year worst and hardly any

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Fiona Horn
10:43 PM
Chichester

Hi, I am in Chichester . Tonight we have lost all on . When they return the bars are approx 30 % max except for bbc Parliament which shows 90% + when all other channels have disappeared.Normally they all show a strength of 60% +.It is very annoying when this happens and strangely enough it always appears to happen on a monday night.We are puzzled as to why we lose all other channels when you would think that if we can get bbc parliament, we should get the other channels in this bundle.The is set and freeview reset procedures have been tried which just results in us losing pre stored channels.At present we can switch to but it is still very annoying.
We would be grateful if you could advice us.The aerial is in the and as we said normally gives a perfect signal so we are sure it is not our equipment as it is so random when it occurs. Last time this occured, the next morning all channels had returned with very good signal strength.

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John Ormerod
8:30 PM

It was searching for a reason for the poor on the Rowrdige FM that I found this site several months ago. kindly explianed that it was being rebuilt. A few weeks ago the signal improved and sure enough, the info under the map said it was working OK.

At the weekend, I noticed that the signal had dropped off, and sure enough the info is now back to saying 'possible waek signal' (actually, it's a definite weak signal!).

Is it being rebuilt again, or are we suffering poor service for another reason?
Regards, John

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A McShannon
10:32 PM
Fareham

have bbc and a few others such as film4 but now have poor or on itv1 ch4 ch5, gold and a load of others.
Ae on , in appears ok. PO15 6TN
Any ideas.

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