Full Freeview on the Rowridge (Isle Of Wight, England) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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50.676,-1.369 or 50°40'35"N 1°22'7"W

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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.

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name

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Which Freeview channels does the Rowridge transmitter broadcast?

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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.

Mux	H/V	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	V max H max	C24 (498.0MHz)	320m	DTG-	200,000W 200,000W
	1 BBC One (SD) South, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others
PSB2 D3+4	V max H max	C27 (522.0MHz)	320m	DTG-	200,000W 200,000W
	3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian (South Coast micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Meridian south coast), 71 That’s 60s,
PSB3 BBCB	V max H max	C21+ (474.2MHz)	320m	DTG-	200,000W 200,000W
	46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others 66 TBN UK,
COM4 SDN	H -6dB V -6dB	C25 (506.0MHz)	299m	DTG-8	50,000W 50,000W
	20 U&Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 U&Dave ja vu, 58 ITV3 +1, 59 ITV4 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 91 WildEarth, 93 ITVBe +1, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 251 Al Jazeera English, 255 FRANCE 24 (in English), 265 Rok Sky +1, plus 29 others
COM5 ArqA	H -6dB V -6dB	C22+ (482.2MHz)	302m	DTG-8	50,000W 50,000W
	11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 U&Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 U&Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 &UYesterday +1, 76 That's TV 2 MCR, 233 Sky News, plus 13 others
COM6 ArqB	H -6dB V -6dB	C28 (530.0MHz)	302m	DTG-8	50,000W 50,000W
	12 Quest, 25 U&W, 27 U&Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 63 GREAT! romance mix, 73 HobbyMaker, 75 That's 90s, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others
LSO	H -13dB	C37 (602.0MHz)	299m	DTG-12	10,000W
	from 22nd December 2014: 7 That's Solent,

DTG-8 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	BBCtv_waves
C21		C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves	+BBCB	BBCB
C22					+ArqA	ArqA
C24		BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBCA	BBCA
C25					SDN	SDN
C27		ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	D3+4	D3+4
C28					ArqB	ArqB
C29						LSO
C31		BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves		com7
C37						com8
C55_{tv_off}						com7_{tv_off}
C56_{tv_off}						COM8_{tv_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

Aug 1958-Jan 1992	Southern Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992	Television South (TVS)
Jan 1993-Feb 2004	Meridian
Feb 2004-Dec 2014	ITV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Rowridge was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

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Honest John
6:14 PM
Poole

For the past few days my father at BH15 2QE and I at BH14 8HJ () have both lost all BBC TV and radio for long periods of time. We both have new Panasonic Viera TV's, his connected to a newish communal - not sure where it is pointing, and mine to a newish aerial which I thought was picking up . Strangely my old Sony connected to a small aerial sticking through the bedroom is much less affected. I have been told the problem is because the French have turned up their strength and there are no plans for us to do likewise until next year. In the meantime it may be possible to retune on to aerial but this means I will lose local news programmes. This seems no way to run a . It would have been nice if someone official had publicised what is going on - but perhaps this was done on the News when I couldn't receive it!

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KMJ,Derby

_{sentiment_satisfied}Gold

8:43 PM
Poole

Honest John: According to the UK postcode checker from is marginal to poor at your location with no reception at all shown for MuxB. As you say, is shown as offering good reception on all six muxes. It is interesting to note that after you are not expected to receive the COM muxes at all from Rowridge due to co- . You might find that an on Mendip linked via a group A to E diplexer to a second aerial on Rowridge will be needed to receive all and the correct local news! Regarding your father's location reception from Rowridge is somewhat better after switchover,the COM muxes being shown as variable, although if he still has reception problems then, his aerial could benefit from being set to a new vertically polarised signal which is due to be added at Rowridge after switchover in 2012. There is no alternative signal from Mendip shown for BH15 2QE.

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Honest John
10:42 AM
Poole

Thanks for your comments, KMJ . I guess what is hard is when a service we had invested time and money to achieve, in an admittedly marginal situation, is taken away from us without warning. In our innocence we thought the process would be a series of improvements, with an occasional retune necessary, until we reached the promised land. In my father's case, the communal on his block of sheltered flats was only installed a few months ago and is currently pretty useless. If I had known what the Freeview switchover had in store for us I would have definitely gone down the route.

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Mike Dimmick

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4:02 PM
Reading

Honest John: The problem is that because they're doing the piece-by-piece, some previously working sites are compromised when others switch over. Where possible these are being balanced with increases, but it's not happening everywhere. Also, the commercial power increases are often being delayed until later stages in switchover. Six multiplexes into four radio doesn't go, especially when you're also releasing about one-third of the channels. (The UHF TV channel allocations were designed for four networks only.)

In addition we're getting extra from the continent, as in many cases they're launching digital TV for the first time. France seems to have completely reorganized its map, rather than reusing channels that they had used before. There has been co-ordination for the final assignments, but I don't think there has for the current low-power Freeview channels.

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Michele Slater
5:28 PM

I live in Worthing and have had no on for itv programs other than itv4 since tuesday 12th at 1830 hrs.

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Briantist

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8:08 AM

Michele Slater: Please see Freeview reception has changed? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .

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Michele Slater
8:38 AM
Worthing

thanks ,I'm checking all my cables.

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Rob
8:08 PM

I can get all except for bbc1, bbc2 and bbc3 (might be some others not sure). This has happened since the switch over

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Briantist

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6:37 AM

Rob: I can't without a postcode, you clearly are not using this .

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karenaksoyweeks
8:25 PM
Lyndhurst

Is anyone else having problems with the in the southampton area? I have tried two different boxes, rebooted my , and I have lost bbc1, bbc2, itv, and loads of other ! help!

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