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 02/10/2023 Pixelation or flickering 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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Thursday, 26 July 2012
SOLENT VIEWER
If you answer these few questions I may be able to help.
1. your location
2. does your system have an amplifier
3. how many connections on the system
4. age of aerial
5. when did your problems start
6. is the aerial mounted outside or in a loft
reception issues can be down to poorly sited aerials or connection and equipment issues.
regards
Jamie
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Rachel8:05 PM
Jamie,
The problem seemed to fix itself by about 22:00 last night. I noticed there was a bit of interference earlier this evening but again it is back to normal.
I live in Southampton city center in a flat with a communal aerial (SO14). The building is about 5yrs old.
The cables and connections appear to be fine.
No splitters or amplifiers.
Itv 1, channel 4 and E4 were the worst quality signal.
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Solent-Viewer9:25 PM
Jamie .. The aerial is only weeks old and was installed when we bought the new DVB TV set at the end of Feb this year. It was fine on analogue right up until switchover/off but often lost reception on digital. After full switchover the rigger came and changed polarity to vertical and digital became better on some of the channels but occasionally stuttered on ones such as Pick, Dave, Sky News and some others.
BBC 1,2,3,4 etc was fine until yesterday until all went off and again this evening with the whole lot going off at 21:00
The lead is direct from the aerial to the back of the set and is the same age as the new group A (red ended) aerial.
I called the aerial rigger this morning and left a message but as he has not bothered to reply I can only assume he does not want to sort anything out that is sortable.
If this is DVB than this is one viewer who will flatly refuse to pay his licence next year and it will be great to have my say in court ...GRRRRR!!!
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jb3811:33 PM
Solent-Viewer: Its really quite impossible to give any advice of a constructive nature without knowledge of your locality, this in the form of a post code or at least one from somewhere nearby, as only with this knowledge can the signal levels expected in your area be assessed.
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Friday, 27 July 2012
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Chris Verrinder1:56 PM
Please can you tell me why we get such a bad picelated reception from this stations transmitter. This has been like this since the change over. When I had the old cheap set top box with terestial transmission I had no problems but this service which is supposed to be the be all and end all is total rubbish.
This service should never been released until it was right.
I live over in West Sussex near Littlehampton and have always had good reception. The channels affected are 11, 12, 15, 19, 20, 21, and 24. At the change over a new areal had been installed and the BT Vision system. Everything comes back to the transmission of signals from Rowridge station. The digital sighnal is transmitted vertically as wel as horizontally so why the problem.
I look forward to you with a solution to this problem.
Regards.
Chris Verrinder.
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Solent-Viewer3:45 PM
Chichester
Post code PO20 0ER and its not just my set, but talking to neighbours either side and the four immediately behind us, we are all suffering loss and at the same time for the same duration.
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Chris Verrinder: The services you identify are carried on the Commercial multiplexes which have a lower transmission power horizontally, so your aerial should be vertical.
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SOLENT VIEWER
Hi,
in my experience your location had a very strong signal even prior to switchover.
As both you and your neighbours are experiencing the same issues I would imagine it is due to TOO MUCH signal being received.
This can only be determined by a system test, however you could try fitting a attenuator to reduce you signal level.
Are your aerials on yours and your neighbours mounted in the loft of externally? this could be another issue.
Information provided by a Digital Approved Installer.
The only true way to find out what is the cause is to have your system tested.
regards
Jamie.
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SOLENT VIEWER.
an after thought.....
as you have a new aerial vertically installed, it must have been fitted since switchover, maybe you should ask the original install company to come a rectify your signal issues.
regards
Jamie.
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SOLENT VIEWER
PLEASE FORGIVE ME, I DID NOT SEE YOUR PREVIOUS RESPONSE TO ME :)
In your area it should make absolutely no difference to your reception having a HP or VP installed aerial.
The fact that the installer has came out and changed your system to VP could indicate a couple of things, either
something is obscuring your reception or the install hasnt been done very well.
I would imagine that as your neighbours have the same issue it could be down to location.
Your aerial may need moving to a different part of the building.
Aerial location is key to good reception, sometimes I can spend 1 hour trying different parts of peoples homes to find the best location for reception (thankfully this is not common).
If you have had problems from day 1, I can only assume that the install company did not make much effort to check the aerial was being fitted in the best location!!
If you have no further luck with your original install company, I do cover your area should you require further assistance.
regards
Jamie.
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