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 25/09/2023 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
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Wednesday, 4 April 2018
MikeP
1:16 PM
1:16 PM
Jeddy S:
A number of people have reported this. It is because they have a Group A type aerial that will not receive channels 55 or 56. Your aerial needs to be changed to a wideband type. Look at https://www.freeview.com/…nges and look in the FAQ section. They may well inspect your aerial and if you qualify they will offer you a free replacement using a wideband type. If you have a cable service or satellite they they will not off a free aerial change.
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Thursday, 5 April 2018
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Gary Calder9:44 AM
@JeddyS
I was not able to register any signal on my Humax Fox T2 when doing a manual retune on 56 (despite it being a wideband antenna). I put it down to us being in the reception hole that is Chandlers Ford. However, on reading your comment about setting DVB-T2, I Googled and found this:
specifying DVB T2 on manual retune
"My Humax HD FOX T2 will not return any signal/quality from a HD mux using manual tune until you select DVB-T2.
Autotuning however (not acceptable where I live) scans for both DVB-T and DVB-T2."
That may account for the fact I saw zero signal registering - I'll check again tonight and select DVB-T2 with manual tune to see if there really is any signal registering, but it's all a bit moot anyway as I already have a cheap ex-Sky satellite box coming from eBay to serve as a BBC4 HD tuner.
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Jonathan Barham12:35 PM
We are unable to receive our favourite channel BBC 4HD, presumably because we have type A aerials (for both our tv sets) which have worked well up until now. I am informed that I will need to spend 88 on two high gain, T band aerials .Such changes throw an additional expense upon consumers.Why could not a less watched channel
be moved to 56? We do not qualify for any rebate as we have potential for freesat if we spend 100 on a freesat box.
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MikeP
12:51 PM
Kettering
12:51 PM
Kettering
Jonathon Barham:
You may not need to spend anything, just contact Freeview at Important changes to Freeview TV signals | Freeview and look in the FAQ section. They have an advice service, or ring 03456 505050 to discuss having your aerial checked and maybe getting it replaced free of charge.
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MikeP's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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R Murchie1:53 PM
Eastleigh
MikeP: You can call the Freeview advice line free on 0808 100 0288, but they will only install a new aerial if you have no access to cable or satellite TV. Like the majority of the UK population, I use Freeview and received all stations from Rowridge until 11 January when BBC4 HD was moved from COM7 at 24.4kW power to COM8 on C37 at 18.4kW. The more recent move to C56 has prevented anyone I know in south Hampshire from receiving it with a group A aerial. Given the amount of money changing hands during the sale of UHF frequencies (the 4G auction raised 2.3 billion for the Treasury, I believe), I think this is poor behaviour by Ofcom. I pay for the privilege of watching TV via the licence fee, I regard the RF spectrum as a public asset, yet I am expected to spend money on a new aerial to help the mobile phone companies expand their revenue-raising operations.
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StevensOnln12:07 PM
R Murchie: How exactly is it poor behaviour when the money raised from the spectrum will repay the cost of providing free replacement aerials to affected households? If you only have Freeview you aren't being expected to pay for a new aerial.
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Jeddy S2:53 PM
@Gary Calder, it was my Humax Fox T2 which I had to manually tune to channel 56 with DVB-T2 to get BBC Four HD - no idea why the auto tune didn't pick it up, but it didn't, it went through the channels twice.
@Jonathan Barham - 88 for two new aerials? I spent around 12 (although I see it's no longer discounted so is now 17 for a Labgear TV Aerial High Gain 48-Element from screwfix. I'm supposedly in a 'good' signal area - although that's up for debate if you ask me.
Having said which I'm still annoyed that a BBC HD channel was moved to a non band A channel - as has been said before, why not move 'the trash' which few watch to the high channels. BBC, ITV, C4 and C5 should be left alone. Also Dave, More4 and Quest but I'm prepared to accept others regard those as trash.
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it would seem that com 8 on channel 56 has been off air since Wed evening, I phoned Freeview helpline to query and they confirmed it.
Their suggestion was that I do a manual re-tune on that frequency , a bit daft since there was NO signal to tune to, however the signal returned about 4pm today
It would be nice if problems like this could be flagged better to prevent viewers rushing to replace aerials and/or down-leads. we used to get a message on-screen informing us of signal problems or engineering work, as it was all websites continued to say there were no faults or work on Rowridge.
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Gary Calder6:18 PM
Tim Wardlaw:
I don't bleeding believe it. <SCREAM!!!!>.
Well that explains all my problems.
One might have assumed that after the frequency switchover they (Ofcom, UKDigital, Arqiva, BBC etc. etc.) would have made sure that everything was running 100% to minimise any possible problems for viewers while they were having to retune. Clearly not - I expect they were far too busy slapping each other on the back, raising a glass or two and counting the millions from the 5G auctions.
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Friday, 6 April 2018
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Jeddy S12:11 PM
It looks like we'll all need to retune again on 2nd May, well, unless you don't need
BBC News HD, 4+1HD, 4-7 HD plus another 16 stations which I don't watch.
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