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

PO30 4HT

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?

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.

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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Frederick love
9:51 AM

My XP media centre PC tuned to can only get the program guide up to the end of this year.
In spite of retuning and reloading all stations the program guide loads no data for 2013 and therefore now has no search facility.

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10:01 AM

Frederick love: Well... one option is to take the cheap Windows 8
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Michael

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8:44 PM

: It's a problem with my Vista media centre EPG as well, seems a lot of people are reporting the problem on the internet - I doubt buying Win8 will solve the issue.

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8:21 AM

Michael: Doubt if you like but here is my and listings in Win 7 right now...

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Michael

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12:10 PM

: Win7 should be ok for a 7 day EPG as that uses broadcast data, unlike XP and Vista.

Found a thread on it, and it's also been reported to Microsoft: View topic - Guide Updates - Download Issues

Resorting to trying EPG Collector to see what happens (instructions at the end of that thread).

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5:01 PM

Michael: The Win7 (and Vista if you have installed the upgrades - Freeview news | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice ) Media Center can use either the internet-delivered (from DigiGuide) or -delievered listings.

From the "TV Programme Guide" screen, right click on a (like "1 BBC One") and choose "Edit channel". You then see...

And select "use listings from broadcaster".

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PaulD
8:44 PM
Portsmouth

Hi, I wonder if anyone can me out. I'm renting a house at PO1 5JP, and I'm trying to troubleshoot a problem with my . I seem to be missing PSB3, COM4 and COM5. COM6 lists a weaker than PSB1 and PSB2, but it does work fine. I tried a few things to check what the problem might be, like moving cables around so they were clear of the Coax, but no improvement. I even unplugged the pass-through RF lead from the back of my Freeview+ HD box but that actually made things worse, as I lost COM6 when I did that. Plugging it back in restored COM6. My alternative amplified indoor aerial couldn't get any signal at all when I pointed it straight at with the power all the way up. I doubt it's a problem with the box as I was able to tune all the multiplexes with it at my parents' house in . Is there anything that any of you can suggest might be the problem? I'm a bit stumped :/

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Dave Lindsay

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10:05 PM

PaulD: PSB3 is the HD one and if you try a manual tune for it, it is UHF channel 21. If there is a setting on the manual tune screen for the , ensure that it is set to DVB-T2 rather than DVB-T, the latter being that of definition broadcasts.

is unique as a main because it has used mixed polarisation since . In the days of analogue it was horizontally polarised, like all other main stations. However, following switchover all six are on the same of 200kW vertically whereas the COMs are restricted to 50kW horizontally (with PSBs being 200kW horizontally). The horizontal component is more for backward compatibility with existing aerials.

There is generally no requirement for Rowridge aerials to be replaced as all digital channels are Group A; only switch to vertical polarisation.

In some cases, such as with , some or all COM channels are outside of the group (which is a part [third] of the band) used for former analogue and hence outside of that which installed aerials work best.

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PaulD
1:05 PM
Portsmouth

Hi Dave, thanks for your. I've now managed to solve the problems by eliminating electrical and using a shorter lead, which enabled me to receive COM4 and COM5, and by installing a battery operated aplififier just before the box I was also able to regain access to PSB3. All the now working, and I'm a happy camper :D

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Christopher Martin James
3:39 PM
Winchester

I have a horizontally polarised fitted to the 3 years ago. is occasionally patchy on some . Would I do better to switch to vertical polarisation now? Would this require a new aerial,or can the existing one simply be rotated? Many thanks

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