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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Saturday, 7 December 2013
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David Cromwell7:09 PM
Southampton
Dave Lindsay & jb38: many thanks for your helpful explanatory comments. Much appreciated.
Best wishes, David
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David's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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MikeB8:55 PM
David Cromwell: Its always wise to look at a TV, especially one at this price, to see if its actually Freeview HD.
I notice that a number of the customers had bought that model via Argos or Asda Direct, and often these places tend to feature the 'Full HD' part on their websites, without explaining what that actually means. The TV itself looks fine, and if you have an HD equiped recorder, then you should be fine using that for the HD (which is exactly what my parents do).
An excellent Smart LG 32in with Freeview HD and wifi would be the N575, which is currently available for £299.95.
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Sunday, 8 December 2013
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David Cromwell8:04 AM
Southampton
Thanks MikeB - good suggestion about using an HD equipped recorder. As you say, the LG TV is itself fine. Hadn't really thought in advance about Freeview HD but will be "fully" aware next time I replace our TV. :)
Thanks again everyone.
David
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David's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 9 December 2013
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Steve Baker10:40 AM
If Rowridge VP isn't actually getting the new T2 COM muxes, why is the site still showing them as coming from Jan 2014?
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Tuesday, 10 December 2013
STEVE BAKER
That is because this site is WRONG.
:)
Apparently I receive my signal from FINDON, lol, I can only see Rowridge from my location.
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jamie's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 15 December 2013
Thursday, 19 December 2013
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Teddy9:12 AM
I live in Christchurch Dorset and I, since the high winds last night have had no tv signal. My aerial is fine, is anyone aware of an issue?
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Teddy: If you are using the Rowridge transmitter then no there are no issues. If there had they would have meant people posting about it, but you're the first. I suggest that the issue might lie with your own installation.
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Saturday, 28 December 2013
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John Procter3:15 PM
Poole
Suddenly on Christmas Eve about 5pm lost pick tv and a few others are unwatchable before that everything was good. Rest of the channels and hd are good so don't think it is my aerial pointing at rowridge post code bh12 2en .
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John's: ...
Tuesday, 7 January 2014
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Sean10:44 AM
I am the individual that submitted a response to the Ofcom consultation, including the following:
"I see from your Annex 11 document that in Table 1 you specifically list Rowridge HP (Horizontally Polarised), but no mention is made of Rowridge VP (Vertically Polarised). Since DSO, I have spent money on having my aerial changed for a VP aerial to ensure I get the best possible reception. Is it the intention that, in order to receive the new muxes, I would then need to spend more money on having my aerial turned back to a horizontal position, and lose the signal strength on other muxes that I gained when I switched to VP? If I was to switch to HP then at what point should I switch back to VP, and who will pay for all this switching? It's not a trivial task to go on the roof and rotate a chimney-mounted aerial."
It was quite funny to see my nag among the submissions from multi-million pound broadcasters! Anyway, their response included the following:
"The choice of whether to use vertical or horizontal polarisation or both will be for the interim multiplex licensee to determine."
So they threw the hot potato at Arqiva (the licensee). I haven't seen any info directly from Arqiva to say either yes or no to VP.
The DigitalUK site says that the two new muxes are HP only. However, I notice that this site shows the new muxes as being for both HP and VP. Do you have some information from Arqiva to confirm this as being the case? I hope so...
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