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 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
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Tuesday, 28 March 2017
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Martyn10:51 AM
OK I have thatched property so each time I have the thatcher in I have a new aerial. 38km from Rowridge 160 degrees
The new aerial is VP old HP I have lost signals cannot easily receive e.g.Vintage TV.
From your correspondence it would seem I need to go back to HP
What do you think
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StevensOnln112:09 PM
Martyn: If you had a good signal before with your aerial in horizontal polarity then turn the new one to horizontal and you should receive all the channels you had before.
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Tuesday, 2 May 2017
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Helen wraith11:48 AM
Please can you advise me. The last three weeks we have had hardly any signal on some stations i.e. Dave, sky news and others. we have retuned two of our free view TVs, now we have lost sky news all together. The aerial is in the loft and has been there for over thirty years, obviously updated to a digital aerial.
We are at a lost as what to do next. My postcode is Po89au.
Is there a problem in this area?
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StevensOnln112:12 PM
Helen wraith: There is no such thing as a digital aerial, it's just a piece of metal that picks up signals and doesn't know or care what they are. If someone told you that you needed a new aerial specifically for digital TV then they were out to mislead you in to paying for a completely unnecessary new aerial if your old one was working fine for analogue channels. Retuning was a bad idea as you've now deleted the channels which were tuned correctly and leaves you with no easy way of knowing when the problem is fixed, unless you have another TV which still has Dave and Sky News showing in the TV guide?
The coverage prediction for your postcode shows that you should get a better signal for Dave, Sky News, etc if your aerial is mounted in the vertical polarity (i.e. with the little rods pointing up and down) rather than horizontal (little rods going side to side).
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JohnH1:07 PM
First of all, I should say that my television aerial is an indoor one - I don't have an outdoor aerial. Reception of the majority of Freeview channels is absolutely fine.
Some time ago certain channels began pixelating and they disappeared. I made the mistake of rescanning and lost them altogether. Essentially, they were the channels on the lowest-powered multiplexes. About two months ago I rescanned - and got some of them back. My favourite - TalkingPicturesTV - was still missing. A couple of weeks ago all of those low-powered channels again began pixelating - and, again disappeared. Mysteriously, last week they were back. Atmospheric conditions, perhaps.
I could wait for some good, stable weather and scan again.
There are inconsistencies - based on the spread of channels shown on this web page. I now have That's Solent again - that's on the lowest-powered mux (10,000W). I have all channels on the 18,400W mux - though they do pixelate from time to time. I DON'T have any channel on the 24,400W mux.
Is there any way of asking the staff in Rowridge why certain channels are placed on certain multiplexes? Why is it that I can receive the one channel on the 10,000W mux, but can't receive any on the 24,400W one?
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Helen wraith1:11 PM
StevensOnln1: Thanks Steven for getting back to me,. We do have two more TVs with free view on which we use mainly for virgin TV.. you are right in saying we have a good signal on most channels, on sky news there is a message weak or no signal coming up on screen. As it has been a problem for some time, is there any way of finding out when the problem will be fixed?
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StevensOnln16:12 PM
JohnH: Capacity on the commercial multiplexes (COM4-8) is sold to broadcasters on a commercial basis by the multiplex operators. There is no other logic to which channels are allocated where, other than what level of coverage each broadcaster is able/willing to pay for. The local multiplexes use a different transmission mode which is more robust and may explain why you can receive it but not COM7/8.
Helen wraith: There are no faults showing for Rowridge, and being a major transmitter broadcasting to over 600,000 homes it certainly wouldn't be allowed to have a fault unresolved for several weeks. The problem is at your end and no one else is going to fix it unless you take action yourself. If you've checked all your cables and connections and the problem is affecting multiple TVs then it's likely that the fault lies with your aerial or spliiter/amplifier or the cabling that distributes the signal around your home.
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Monday, 8 May 2017
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Tony Hill1:26 PM
As I responded earlier, my problems with Com7 (BBC4 HD) still exist - sometimes OK then disappears. Mostly retuning works but sometimes not. We are on the western edge of Rowridge coverage area and need boosters for everything. Is this all down to the low power of Com7?
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StevensOnln12:30 PM
Tony Hill: Retuning will never fix a problem with a weak signal, all it does is delete the channels already tuned and searches for them again. The postcode you provided in an earlier post is predicted to have a weak signal for COM7 from Rowridge and as you're already using an amplifier it seems unlikely that much can be done to improve the situation.
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Wednesday, 10 May 2017
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R Murchie10:49 PM
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Tony Hill: Please make a complaint to the BBC about low power on COM7 from Rowridge, as I have. I had a reply about choices having to be made about broadcast power, but it seems daft for high quality programmes on BBC4 HD to be compromised like this, so if more people complain it might eventually change things.
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