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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Sunday, 10 November 2013
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Michael7:20 PM
jamie stevens: If you're that bothered, why not get in touch with Ofcom or Digital UK? That's where this site gets its information from, and it seems like the postcode checker only has Com7 on HP.
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Monday, 11 November 2013
Michael-
I have been onto Digital UK and they are not sure.
They will investigate.
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Wednesday, 13 November 2013
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Peter5:17 PM
Emsworth
I am unable to get ITV, C4, 5 (10 services missing in all) etc in Emsworth since yesterday. Have tried re-tuning, no luck at all. Any idea why?
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Peter:
You seem to have issues with UHF 27.
Are all other channels working without issue??
Are you having the same issue on multiple tvs?
What is your postcode?
Where is you aerial mounted?
Generally Emsworth has very good reception ( I am local to you)
Your issue is likely to be some part of the system or your tv as the transmitter is working fine.
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Monday, 18 November 2013
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Steve8:11 PM
Waterlooville
No BBC since Sunday.1,2,7 and 9 all gone. Do I still have to pay my licence fee for this non existent so called service? PO8 9UW is post code.
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MikeB9:04 PM
Steve: Before complaining about the licence fee (a frequent complaint on these pages, however unwarrented), have you actually checked your equipment (any loose connections, etc) and signal strength?
Although your terrain plot shows an obstruction some 7km away from you, your not that far from the transmitter, which is apparently working normally. Are you getting the BBC channels, yet they are breaking up? or are they entirely gone?
If its the first, your signal strength is perhaps too high, and if its the latter, your missing the mux, which might be due to any number of reasons.
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Friday, 22 November 2013
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andrew burroughs8:35 PM
Ventnor
I live in south Isle of Wight and can see clearly the lights of Rowridge. But anything on channel 25 is not available. The tuner doesn't even pick it up. Other channels are v strong. I have three tvs, one withmasthead amplified aerial (shouldn't need it !),other 2 are indoor variable gain.
Why is channel 25 so weak - the stats on signal strength don't suggest this, but I am due south of the transmitter.
Anything obvious ?
House is PO382LP
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Saturday, 23 November 2013
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Steve Baker9:53 AM
So the Rowridge VP COM7/8 mystery continues.
I suppose all will become clear in January, so fingers crossed VP is included.
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andrew burroughs: It is the case that the COM channels provide inferior coverage to that of the PSBs.
One of your neighbours reported that he could not receive C28, even with vertical polarisation:
Rowridge (Isle Of Wight, England) transmitter | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice
Unfortunately the powers that be won't release the radiation patterns - these show how the transmitter throws out the signal in each direction. My suspicion is that the COM channels from Rowridge are directional with little or nothing to the south, whereas the PSBs are not. If this is the case then it is an example of where the COM channels are inferior in coverage terms.
It may be that the COM channel antennas don't point in your direction and that the "bits" of signal you are getting are off the back or edge of them. With that in mind, it is to be expected that the way in which these "bits" are scattered may vary by channel (frequency).
You can try turning your aerial for vertical polarisation, but this didn't help for Colin up the road.
Rowridge broadcasts horizontally and vertically (this being unique among the main stations). The PSBs are 200kW horizontally and vertically whereas the COMs are 50kW horizontally and 200kW vertically. A wideband aerial is not needed for Rowridge. Yagi widebands aren't as good on Group A channels, which Rowridge uses exclusively. If a yagi aerial is used it should be a Group A one.
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STEVE po8 9uw
Im am local to you and know your location well.
Reception in this area is very good, not likely to be too strong unless you have an amplifier on the system.
The issue is not the transmitter or anything to do with you paying a license fee.
The issue must be with your system or equipment.
regards
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