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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Rowridge (Isle Of Wight, England) mast?
Rowridge transmitter - Rowridge transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 02/10/2023 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
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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Tuesday, 21 January 2014
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mort8:12 AM
having read, sworn, ignored, then re-read.
It could be the 4G Interference.
I would say is my HD reception is also weaker
as CH19 is on ARQa I thinks this might be the route cause.
I have however noticed that I can tune in the channels during the day, but they are un-viewable by the evening.
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Sean6:37 PM
The real answer is probably to switch to VP. I'd be interested to know why you got a HP aerial a year ago. I haven't seen many, so wondering if the average fitter knows about it.
See the info above - the Com muxes are much lower power on hp. We got crap channels subject to interference from France at DSO so the important people in London could have the decent ones. Hence all the VP nonsense.
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I have seen some fitters installing aerials HP still even today.
They must be from a national company and not local to the area.
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jamie's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Wednesday, 22 January 2014
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Rocknerd9:05 PM
Brighton
I think it's a strange choice not to broadcast Com 7 and 8 in VP as well as HP, but if you are going to only use one or the other of HP or VP from a business point of view it makes sense.
Rowridge was traditionally an HP transmitter and therefore the vast majority of aerials are still orientated in HP. The VP option was put in place for areas struggling with the lower powered Com muxes. Therefore if you are not in an area able to receive those adequately, then there would be little chance receiving the new HD channels which are broadcast at half the power of the already low powered muxes.
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Rocknerd's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 26 January 2014
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Brian Baverstock2:34 AM
Portsmouth
Why am I getting Meridian south east instead of Meridian south when I live in Portsmouth? Can I retune my Freeview box to get the correct station
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Brian's: mapB's Freeview map terrainB's terrain plot wavesB's frequency data B's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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KMJ,Derby10:13 AM
Brian Baverstock: If you are talking about ITV HD there are only a few ITV regions at present which are equipped to deliver HD content on the local news broadcasts. The whole of the Meridian region is currently fed the South-East option in HD. Meridian South news is transmitted in SD only for the time being.
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> The whole of the Meridian region is currently fed the South-East option in HD. Meridian South news is transmitted in SD only for the time being.
How much longer will this be the case ie when will we see Meridian Tonight in HD ?
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Dave: I doubt any time soon. See here for an explanation as to why ITV HD has more than one variant in the first place:
On the tenth day of Christmas Auntie brought to me ... five more HD channels | High definition | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice
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I see the new HD mux'x are only 25kw, is this for good or will they go to the same power as the rest of 200kw ?
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Dave: No, it will stay as it is. Digital UK indicates that it is at 23.4kW. Unusually the power is apparently slightly lower than previously anticipated (the owner of this site is waiting for confirmation as to the powers).
The new HD multiplex is available from 30 transmitters only, and on lower power than the other channels. There is a second "new" HD multiplex to follow.
The plan for these 30 transmitters has been drawn up and will not change before the end of 2018 at the earliest. At that point frequencies for TV may be replanned which might increase coverage of these quasi-national HD services.
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