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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Monday, 5 March 2012
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Adam B5:10 PM
Dunstable
Solent-Viewer:
Rowridge should be switched (barring disaster!) by 6AM on the 7th. In practise,
it will probably be before that. Don't forget to retune before setting your recorder, as the BBC channels will move to the frequency currently occupied by BBC2 analogue.
Hope this helps,
Adam.
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Adam B5:13 PM
Dunstable
Dave Lindsay:
Sorry about that, our postings overlapped!
Cheers,
Adam.
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Vialli5:51 PM
Fareham
When will the HD channels become available to the Rowridge area is it the 7th or 21sty March?
Apologies if this has been answered already, I couldn't find an answer.
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Vialli: As it says above
"Wednesday 21st March 2012 ... Multiplex Freeview HD (BBCB) starts on C21. "
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Tuesday, 6 March 2012
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Kev3:22 PM
I currently have a class A horizontally polarised aerial picking up freeview from Rowridge along with a diplexer (switching at c38) connected to a vertically polarised aerial to pick up analogue from the Poole transmitter (which I can physically see.. the analogue from Rowridge is bad).
After the switchover I guess this will still work, but would it be sensible switching my Rowridge aerial to vertical polarisation to get the higher power or leave as-is..?
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Mark Fletcher6:37 PM
Halifax
Kev.I take it you reside near Poole itself as you did not leave a full postcode or nearby town/city to ascertain your situation as such.Your best bet for now is to leave it as it is until Wednesday 18 April 2012 once Crystal Palace goes all digital TV,and from then onwards you may consider that realigning your presently horizontally polarised diplexed aerial on Rowridge to vertical will be the better option.By the way is your class A (Yagi or X-Beam) aerial which is horizontally polarised at present (the diplexed signal aimed at Rowridge) a group A antenna (tipped red facing Rowridge).If it is black tipped (the one facing Rowridge that is) then it is a group W wideband aerial and the wrong antenna to use on Rowridge (all group A mast) hence the bad analogue reception on the Rowridge diplexed signal you stated as such.On no account should a group W wideband aerial (tipped black) be used on an all group A transmitter/relay such as Rowridge as an example within a bad/marginal signal area of that particular mast itself due to their poor/inferior performance.If you decide to realign the diplexed Rowridge received antenna from horizontal to vertical check that the tip is coloured red if it is then it is a group A aerial and retain this aerial as such,if it is coloured black (facing Rowridge that is) then it is a group W wideband aerial and the wrong aerial.
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Wednesday, 7 March 2012
BBC 2 gone at 0.08:07 this is 12 seconds AFTER my local relay though !
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jay2:04 AM
Brighton
what a mess.. now getting psb1 from rowridge (24) and whitehawk hill..
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Kev8:08 AM
Poole
Thanks Mark.. Yeah it's a group a (not class a pointing at rowridge).. Guess I'll best just wait and see how things work out, but if power or quality lacking, I'll try realigning it vertically. BH15 3RH by the way.. My aerialpoints at rowridge to the left of constitution hill.. Luckily.. Figured out using Google earth :)
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