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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Rowridge (Isle Of Wight, England) mast?
Rowridge transmitter - Rowridge transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 22/04/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels 
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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.
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, 2 May 2012
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Mrs Thomas10:42 AM
Eastleigh
Yesterday 1st May we lost CITV72 and 5USA and cannel 5+1. We have gone down from 113 to 83 in all. Anyone know why?
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Geoff Smith9:07 PM
Hi there,
I live at Kingsley Green just south of Haslemere on top of Fridays Hill. My aerial is a type A and is pointed at Rowridge HP.
Since the DSO I am receiving the 3 PSB Muxes from Rowridge and the 3 Coms from Midhurst. All signal strengths and qualities are 90-100% most of the time. However from time to time, maybe a couple of times a week, I will suddenly lose all signal from PSB1 and PSB3 from Rowridge together with all 3 Coms from Midhurst. PSB2 always remains unaffected maintaining a 95% strength and quality. There is no slow deterioration of signal...it just goes off. It will also come back on as quickly as it goes off...all or nothing! I repeat that PSB2 always remains unaffected so I fail to see that there can ce anything wrong with my aerial connections otherwise everything would go.
My signal has just gone off on these 5 psb/coms at 8:30pm. Is anyone else having difficulties? I suspect there is some sort of transmitter problems. Do the personnel at the transmitters always keep us informed of ongoing problems? And finally I cannot comprehend why I should lose signal from both Rowridge and Midhurst at the same time in the same instance. Can anyone advise?
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Phil Alcock11:05 PM
Southampton
Get signal from Rowridge. Aerial is in loft. No problems with Freeview reception before the first retune. Since then many problems with picture/sound freezing, pixelation, etc. Had an 'aerial man' in. He said problem was low signal strength so fitted an amplifier and renewed the coax down from the loft to the set (its on the outside of the house). No improvement! Despite having a replacement amp with more 'boost' today we've still got the problems. Humax recorder shows around 76% on the signal strength with signal quality normally 100% but jumping around wildly when there's a problem
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Phil Alcock11:07 PM
Southampton
By the way its the coax that's on the outside of the house not my Freeview box! :-)
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Mark Fletcher11:17 PM
Halifax
Phil Alcock,Southampton.You may have too much signal.Also loft aerials generally perform poorly than external mounted aerials.Check your loft aerial too if it is either polarised horizontally or vertically and also if the tip of the aerial is coloured red which denotes a group A aerial or the tip is coloured black,denoting a group W wideband aerial.
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Thursday, 3 May 2012
ROWRIDGE transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 06:59 yesterday to 07:02 yesterday [BBC]
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ROWRIDGE transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 06:59 yesterday to 07:02 yesterday [BBC]
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Fraser4:45 PM
Durham
Mrs Thomas: If you do a firts time installation on the TV, at the end it will ask you to select your country, Primary and secondary region, if you set these to UK or GBR for the country, England for Primary region and where ever you are at present for the secondary region, the 3rd region should be left blank, you should get all the channels back, I am a TV technician for Argos and if you call 08456040105 and ask to speak to Fraser I can talk you through this over the phone.
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Julia Behn8:33 PM
Bognor Regis
I have lost all but about 6 channels despite retuning lots of times. I have no facility for manual retune and the above instructions are incomprehensible to me. I live in a small complex and I believe the aerial is on the roof of a tall building. I should be very grateful if you would tell me what I need to do whether it is a new box, new aerial or other. I have been told sevePleaseral different things including the fact that the reception from the transmitter is unlikely to improve.Please help. Julia Behn
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Martin D8:33 PM
Phil Alcock - I concur with Mark Fletcher. All you need to do is flip the aerial 90 degrees to vertical alignment (see my earlier post on 30 April - diagram here: http://bit.ly/IKM4PE ). This worked for my loft aerial and ancient cabling. 3 of the 6 multiplexes only broadcast at only 25% power on horizontal alignment, but full power on vertical. I usually get 90-100% strength, and no less than 80% on bad days (always 100% quality). So far no freezing or lost channels since I flipped to vertical.
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