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
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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Saturday, 23 January 2021
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Chris.SE5:10 PM
Alan Bromage:
The Sony Classic channels (and some of their others) are on Local multiplexes, see Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview for which channels are carried on which multiplex.
The Local multiplex at Rowridge is on UHF C37 and your aerial needs to be horizontal polarisation. The Local multiplex is not transmitted in vertical polarisation from Rowridge (neither is COM7).
It will depend on your location as to whether you can receive the multiplex. Try a manual tune on C37, if the signal is weak, an automatic tune may not find it.
If your provide a full postcode, we can look at the predicted reception in your locale.
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Monday, 29 March 2021
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Nick2:56 PM
Ch22 and others out of Rowridge IOW are completely dead
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Tuesday, 30 March 2021
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Chris.SE6:05 AM
Nick:
Have your signals now returned?
If not, check all your connections etc. and that your aerial is still intact and pointing in the correct direction.
There is currently some variable "Tropospheric Ducting" around due to current weather conditions which is affecting reception for some viewers. You might be getting interference from the Crystal Palace transmitter.
Have a look in your TV's tuning section and look for the signal strength and quality figures and compare each of the multiuplexes which may help identify any issues.
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Friday, 7 May 2021
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PJS5:06 PM
My elderly aunt in Emsworth has lost all the channels transmitting on channel 27 on her human box. They were fine last week but now say channel scrambled or unavailable. Her TV is fine as are all the other multiplexes on the humax. Any ideas?
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Chris.SE7:09 PM
PJS:
According to a Freeview report I've just seen, there is apparently Planned Engineering at Rowridge although it's not on the main list!!
This is the most likely cause of the channel loss. These sort of things don't normally last for very long, have her channels returned?
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Monday, 10 May 2021
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Chris.SE12:58 PM
PJS:
Update - Rowridge has now appeared on the Planned Engineering list, is your aunt still affected?
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Tuesday, 11 May 2021
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PJS5:37 PM
Chris.SE: yes and now TV having problem with PSB2 ch27 too
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Wednesday, 12 May 2021
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Chris.SE11:17 PM
PJS:
With the Planned Engineering, any one or several multiplexes could be affected at any time depending on the nature of the work being done. There could be service interruptions or reduced power (the latter possibly causing picture or sound break-up).
You should NEVER retune when this sort of work is going on as it can usually end up just clearing the correct tuning, or even getting tuned to some more remote transmitter whose signals will not be stable.
If you do so, you'll end up have to retune again when the signals are back to normal, and as you can't be certain when that might be, you may have to try several times. If necessary, manual tuning on the affected multiplex(es) would be better than a full auto-retune as you don't run the risk of messing up those multiplexes that are ok.
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Friday, 11 June 2021
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Stuart3:34 PM
Bognor Regis
PO22 6BT
Used to get all Freeview channels from Rowridge where the aerial is pointed. For last 18 months or so, signal is from Findon. from which we get only Freeview Light. This is true of a corridor about two miles wide acress Bilsham, Middleton, Felpham, Bognor. Half a mile south of me get Rowridge, a mile north they get Rowridge. Why do I NOW only get the Freeview Light from Findon. This certainly affects several thousand people in the area all of whom seem to have aerials pointed at Rowridge from whence they used to recieve the signal.
Can you explain what happened to necessitate the change?
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Stuart's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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