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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Wednesday, 11 April 2012
Keith Smith: The Commercial multiplexes (which includes the on currently on C33) are on low power until 18th April when you will have to retune.
You may or may not need to switch your aerial to veritcal after that date.
Rowridge's transmission power for the Public Service channels is 200kW horizontally and vertically (and that is the case now). The Commercials will be 50kW horizontally and 200kW vertically. Therefore if reception issues are experienced with any of the Commercials, changing the aerial to vertical may help.
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Thursday, 12 April 2012
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David Brinkman10:34 AM
Poole
JB38
Thanks for your information, I went up into the loft bypassed the signal amplifiers on both aerials and problem sorted.
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PR MARTELL1:12 PM
since the change over, I have lost six or more praramms bbc programms plus 10 and a few more, of which I could receive before the swich over, and I keep retuining, but still I have trouble, what has gone wrong,?
PR Martell in southsea.
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jb385:11 PM
David Brinkman: Pleased to hear that you have sorted the "mystery" out insomuch that the problem was caused by the actual aerial amps themselves being overloaded. I would though be obliged if could let me know the brand of the devices involved, this to enable me to check on the circuitry / transistor type used in them.
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jb389:17 PM
PR MARTELL: As you havent provided your location (pref: post code or one from very near by) its impossible to verify this, but if its mainly the PSB channels thats missing then your TV or box could be getting overloaded by an excessively high level of signal so if you have any booster in line by pass it. If though you do not have a booster then for a test try a set top aerial or even a short piece (about 12") of copper wire pushed into the middle part of the aerial socket, and re-scanning (essential) after having fitted any of the mentioned as the programmes will not be in the receivers memory.
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Friday, 13 April 2012
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Pauline2:50 PM
Waterlooville
Hi I have a sky freeeview HD box and I have now lost all my channels and signal and I am not very tecky and have checked the cables, unplugged etc what am i doing wrong?????? I have been without a TV now since Wednesday when it just went off. PLEASE PLEASE any help will be welcomed...
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Mike Dimmick3:29 PM
Pauline: Do you mean Sky, through a satellite dish, or Freeview, through an aerial? When selecting BBC One, do you just press button 1 (which would be Freeview) or 101 (Sky, Freesat or cable)?
In either case the most likely explanation is a broken or disconnected cable, or a misaligned dish (for Sky) or aerial (for Freeview).
Sometimes the Sky box does need resetting: see What can I do when my Sky Digibox says 'No Signal' or 'Technical fault'? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice for how to do this.
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Sunday, 15 April 2012
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dave6:52 PM
Southampton
I have a discrepancy in freeveiw channel reception. dvd box is fine. But when tv is used without dvd connexion poor signal and different channels are received.
The strange thing is they are both on the same ariel.
Have tried retuning both separatly . No diff
The ariel is old analoge in the loft. Till retune no problems.
???
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A Everett7:19 PM
Chichester
We live in a estate of 45 flats and a number are having issues. Day time ok can switch channels, but come evening and say you are on 1 BBC and you press your handset for 5, nothing happens straight away then 5 appears, then you can wait 10 seconds and it will switch, sometimes nothing happens. This frustration has been since changes. Yes all our sets have been retuned two/three times!! There is a communal system which has been checked, but ours is on its own aerial. Our post Code PO20 9HJ
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i live in glasgow east end i've had no tv freevies reception all day, was ok last night about midnight when i went to bed, woke up about half 9 this morning and nothing not a single tv or radio channel. Tried retuning but no joy, any probs with the transmitter??
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