Full Freeview on the Rowridge (Isle Of Wight, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
Google Streetview | Google map | Bing map | Google Earth | 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._______
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
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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Sunday, 12 June 2011
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Amy 5:08 PM
Bournemouth
Hello,
I've just moved to Bournemouth, bh7 6ha.
I've got a tv,a freeview box and an indoor aerial, they are all plugged in but when I turn it all on and scan for channels it cant find any, what should I do?
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KMJ,Derby5:56 PM
Amy: Indoor aerials are very hit and miss for Freeview reception. 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 transmitter is usually favourite. Even so different positions might have to be found for each multiplex 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 analogue transmissions using your indoor aerial? This would give an indication whether digital reception might be possible after switchover.
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Monday, 13 June 2011
Peter Making: I would check Freeview intermittent interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice - the higher power 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 Dimmick3:04 PM
Peter Making: You're currently predicted to get variable reception on some multiplexes - this is expected to improve to good reception on all multiplexes after switchover completes.
The official 'step 2' is on 21 March 2012, but the commercial multiplexes have to stay on their current channels and power levels until 18 April 2012 as the new channels clash with transmissions from Crystal Palace.
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Tuesday, 14 June 2011
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San9:23 PM
Bournemouth
We have several TV's on our roof aerial which has direct line of sight to the transmitter at Rowridge. However two weeks ago we lost all ITV Channels on one TV only, we have rescanned and added a booster direct to it which has boosted the signal 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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Thursday, 16 June 2011
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Paul9:52 PM
UHF channel 30 (containing Quest, Challenge, Gold, ITV3 etc) is showing low signal strength and giving poor reception in Bournemouth between town centre and Westbourne, close to the Wessex Way (BH2 6**) as of now.
Newly installed (by CAI approved) log parabolic roof aerial with masthead booster. I doubt it has direct line of sight as there are trees across the road.
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Wednesday, 22 June 2011
We have a caravan park in Sandown IOW and cannot get a good picture is there any way this will improve as we seem to have lost a lot of signal 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 analogue and hardly any freeview
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Monday, 27 June 2011
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Fiona Horn10:43 PM
Chichester
Hi, I am in Chichester . Tonight we have lost all channels on freeview. When they return the signal 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 aerial is set and freeview reset procedures have been tried which just results in us losing pre stored channels.At present we can switch to analogue but it is still very annoying.
We would be grateful if you could advice us.The aerial is in the loft 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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Monday, 4 July 2011
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John Ormerod8:30 PM
It was searching for a reason for the poor signal on the Rowrdige FM transmitter that I found this site several months ago. Briantist 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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Monday, 11 July 2011
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A McShannon10:32 PM
Fareham
have bbc channels and a few others such as film4 but now have poor or no signal on itv1 ch4 ch5, gold and a load of others.
Ae on roof, booster in loft appears ok. PO15 6TN
Any ideas.
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