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 15/04/2024 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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Friday, 20 June 2014
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MikeB1:18 PM
Colin1951uk: Try your local Poundland. I got a 2m 'Belkin ProAV 1000' (!) for a pound. Scarts are really cheap because they are going out of fashion. As long as its decently shielded, it should be fine.
When we get a flat screen, it will want to use HDMI, which are less prone to this sort of thing. Its strange how its often the small things which cause the most hassle - glad you got it sorted.
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Wednesday, 16 July 2014
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Ken Peck6:08 PM
Hi there,
Do you know why the Rowridge transmitter channel 31 (BBC News HD, BBC4 HD etc) is polarised horizontally and only 10kW as opposed to the majority which are vertical and 200kW?
Regards,
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KMJ,Derby8:57 PM
Ken Peck: Officially the COM7 mux is intended to encourage viewers to equip themselves with receivers that support DVB-T2 ready for a possible transfer of some or all services to DVB-T2 transmission from possibly as early as 2018. It is a low cost network which re-uses equipment taken out of service at DSO. The power of the transmitters at each site, I suspect, is somewhat experimental, but is set to cover the largest section of the population served by the chosen transmitters, whilst causing the minimum level of interference to other areas using the same frequency. In the case of Rowridge, most viewers living reasonably close to the mast will still be using horizontal polarisation, so it was decided to use horizontal polarisation only, thus saving the considerable extra cost that would have been incured by transmitting an additional vertically polarised signal. The lower power of C31 is necessary as Oxford shares this frequency for Com7.
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Ken Peck9:02 PM
KMJ,Derby:
Thank you very much for the informative reply. All is clearer now thanks.
Regards,
Ken.
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Tuesday, 26 August 2014
My Sister who has recently moved to Bournemouth rang me today (I live in Berkshire) to say that all of her BBC channels have disappeared !!!!
Further telephone investigation including appropriate retuning shows that it is only channel 23 channels that seem to be missing, all others from the Rowridge transmitter are working correctly with good (85%) signal strength. Whereas channel 23 has on 5% signal strength.
Does anyone have any clue what might be the problem please.
Regards
Mike
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Thursday, 28 August 2014
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TomS1:02 PM
Lyndhurst
I live in SO40, receiving from the Rowridge transmitter. At some point on Tuesday (26th August) I lost signal from all channels in COM7 and when I retuned my digibox (Panasonic DMR-BWT720) the channels were removed from the guide entirely.
I was pretty annoyed because I had a timer set to record a programme on BBC Four HD in the early hours of Wednesday morning. When I turned the box on last night, however, I found that the programme *had* recorded! If someone could explain to me how this is possible when the tuner is showing no live information from those channels *at all*, I'd be very grateful.
I'd also appreciate any advice on how to reinstate those channels because as they don't appear in the tv guide I am unable to watch them live or set any new timers.
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Thursday, 11 September 2014
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Mike McNamara12:49 PM
Update to previous post....
Seems the issue was 4G interferance blocking out random channels. Used a 4G filter and problem has now been solved.
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Sunday, 14 September 2014
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colin Lambert10:39 AM
13 & 14 th September 2014 NO HD signal received from Rowridge. What's going on?
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MikeB5:17 PM
colin Lambert: have a look at R & T Investigations, there seems to be no reported problems. Logically, its your system which has the problem.
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Saturday, 20 September 2014
BH23 4BB
For years I've used a Goodmans set-top box to receive digital television signals.
Now recently the television image either freezes or will stay on one station, with an inability for one to switch channels.
Since then I have bought 2 new Goodmans GD11FVZS2 digital boxes to no avail.
I have also installed a UHF 0-20dB variable gain attenuator which didn't resolve the problem.
With further testing over the best part of 2 weeks I've tried to receive a signal from 2 local transmitters and have used different 2 television sets.
The total equipment used in various combinations has been 2 x TVs, 3 x digital boxes and 1 gain attenuator.
Curiously this problem only affects all BBC channels I've tried them all. All other stations work perfectly as they have done since the digital switch over.
My aerial is the same UHF situated in the attic where it has resided for years with no problem.
A neighbour has recently told me that he is having similar problems.
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