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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Sunday, 8 October 2023
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Davem9:03 AM
No Freeview in Southampton from Rowridge. It has been blocky most of Saturday and Sunday. TV now showing No Signal.
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melvyn mouland7:35 PM
Lost virtually all the channels 20.30 nothing showing at all on Freeview tv
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Fred Hotchen11:23 PM
melvyn mouland: lost all channels on Sunday evening.
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Chris.SE11:29 PM
Christopher woodnutt :
As you haven't given a full postcode I've no idea what your normal predicted reception would be. If you are in a marginal area then engineering work may give you a weak signal that your set thinks it's no signal.
One thing that is never advised is retuning if you have no signal or badly pixelated pictures as this will often just clear your correct tuning. Did you perhaps do that thinking it would help?
Planned Engineering work is periodically essential to ensure that you continue to have reliable reception especially when weather conditions become inclement. Work may be required on the antenna etc on the mast and most such work can only be carried out when the weather is not very wet/windy.. It's also worth pointing out that it's a good 10 years since DSO and a lot of main transmitters have been having extended essential engineering - items may need repair or replacement.
Another possibility is you may be suffering some interference which may only affect you when engineering work give you a weaker signal. If you provide a full postcode we might be able to advise further.
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Fred Hotchen11:30 PM
Fred Hotchen: I should have said my location is Broughton, Hampshire where signal is normally good on PSB muxes but marginal on some of the COM muxes, esp the one that has TPTV on it. Signal very down even on main Muxes and a lot of the time this evening, nothing at all.
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Monday, 9 October 2023
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Chris.SE12:07 AM
Fred Hotchen
You may or may not have noticed the Planned Engineering post for the week commencing 2/10/23, now on the previous page 2nd from last.
"Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 02/10/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels "
When you are in a weaker signal area, such work could involve using the reserve antenna or operating at reduced power for periods of time which may reduce you signal sufficiently it looks at though you have No signal. Do NOT retune as this may just clear your correct tuning, you'll then have to retune again when signals are normal, possibly several times as you won't know when that might be.
From your comments about reception of the COM muxes and doing a random check in your area, I'd guess that the rods (or squashed Xs) on your aerial are horizontal.
Rowridge transmits both horizontal and vertical polarisation but in HP the COM muxes are 50kW compared to the PSBs 200kW., however in Vertical polarisation they are also 200kW so re-orientating your aerial should significantly improve that reception BUT if you also happen to receive the Local mux, this is HP only, so you'd lose it BUT you aren't predicted to receive it although that doesn't mean you can't.
No faults are been currently reported, so it's the Planned Engineering currently affecting you.
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Chris.SE12:21 AM
Ashley: Davem: melvyn mouland: Fred Hotchen :
See my previous 2 posts just now as much of it could apply BUT also applicable to Fred Hotchen -
NOTE ALSO current weather conditions have been causing Tropospheric Ducting affecting much of the south coast and southern parts of the country on Saturday and more of the south of the country through Sunday. This causes interfering signals from distant transmitters in Europe or the UK to affect reception of your wanted signals. This can periodically last, seconds, minutes and sometimes much longer - Do NOT Retune.
There is nothing you can do about this apart from wait for conditions to change, or use online streaming if available.
The BBC have issued warnings -
High pressure weather conditions impacting TV & Radio services - 6th October | Help receiving TV and radio
Christopher woodnutt this may also be affecting you but see previous reply.
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Our TV reception has been interrupted since Saturday 7th of October, signal strength seems ok but signed quality keeps dropping very low or even out to 0.
My postcode is BH177HQ Poole Dorset, the Arial is on the chimney stack and has never been an issue. Please could somebody tell Me if this is due to ongoing maintenance on the Freeview Isle of Wight transmitter
Many thanks
Daron
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Chris.SE1:51 PM
MR D M ROWE:
In your location you should get the best reception from Rowridge with your Aerial rods (or squashed Xs) vertical rather than horizontal as Rowridge transmits both but with higher power for the COM multiplexes.
Depending on the beamwidth of your aerial, with it vertical you may also get a reliable signal for the 3 PSB multiplexes only from the Poole relay, but if you currently get the Local multiplex from Rowridge and wish to continue, your aerial needs to remain horizontally polarised.
As far as disruption to reception, yes the ongoing engineering will not help but also see the last post of mine here just before the engineering one, about current weather conditions.
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Matt Coombes6:59 PM
No signal on free view or fm in blandford area
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