Full Freeview on the Rowridge (Isle Of Wight, England) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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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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Friday, 6 May 2022
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Chris.SE10:11 PM
Paul Lacy:
The Rowridge transmitter is listed for Planned Engineering with Possible effect on TV reception "Screen may go black on all or certain channels".
This is likely what you experienced and presumably your signals returned later.
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Sunday, 3 July 2022
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Victor Delta10:30 PM
I gather Com 7 has recently been taken down, which would explain why we can't receive BBC4 HD and BBC News HD any more (in Poole). Does anyone know when these channels will return to Rowridge please? Presumably there must be a plan somewhere?
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Monday, 4 July 2022
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Chris.SE2:11 AM
Victor Delta:
It's not just Rowridge, it's the whole country.
See https://www.bbc.co.uk/rec…com7
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Victor Delta10:07 AM
Chris.SE
Many thanks. I hadn't realised these channels had ceased across the whole country.
I see the announcement says they will "return soon with a substantial increase in coverage". Do you have any idea when this might be - weeks, months or years? 'Soon' implies that it will not be too long, and builds an expectation to that effect.
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Chris.SE1:35 PM
Victor Delta:
There's not any detail (or even reliable speculation!) about at present. If something becomes available, I'll try and post it.
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John H4:06 PM
Bet the Beeb relocated Forces T V a bit smartish, clearly not wanting it up-em
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StevensOnln14:31 PM
John H: Forces TV was operated by the military charity BFBS, the decision to close the channel had nothing to do with the BBC.
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Chris.SE9:40 PM
John H:
See this previous post https://ukfree.tv/extras/…6659
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Tuesday, 5 July 2022
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Victor Delta9:40 AM
Anyone know why I don't get email updates when replies are posted? I've ticked the appropriate boxes below, my email address is shown correctly and the emails are not going being caught by my spam filter...?
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Chris.SE2:41 PM
Victor Delta:
There have been a number of bugs on the site since the site software (OS) was upgraded a while ago, the site owner has not had the time to iron out all the bugs, and mail wasn't being sent at all (well I wasn't getting any for a while), but now back to getting weekly updates albeit on a different day to previously.
I think the default setting is weekly, but you have to log-in to the mail setting using the icon on the menu bar top RHS of the page BUT last time I tried it produced an error, so I've no idea if it's working now (and I'm not going to tempt fate with my own, sorry!).
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