Full Freeview on the Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) transmitter which serves 31,000 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 Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) mast?
Salisbury transmitter - Salisbury transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 18/11/2024 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which Freeview channels does the Salisbury 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Salisbury transmitter?
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 32km east-southeast (120°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.6%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 44km east-southeast (116°)
to ITV Meridian (South Coast) region - 39 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian plus Oxford
How will the Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 18 Apr 2018 | |||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | C/D E T | K T | |||
| C23 | _local | ||||||||
| C29 | SDN | ||||||||
| C31 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C37 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C41 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C44 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C47 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C51tv_off | _local | _local | _local | ||||||
| C53tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||
| C55tv_off | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | ||||||
| C57tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | |||
| C59tv_off | -ArqA | -ArqA | -ArqA | ||||||
| C60tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | |||
| C62 | SDN | ||||||||
| C63 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C68 | C5waves | C5waves |
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 | 10kW | |
| Analogue 5, SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 2kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C* | (-10dB) 1000W | |
| Mux D* | (-11.9dB) 640W | |
| Mux 2* | (-14.9dB) 320W |
Local transmitter maps
Salisbury Freeview Salisbury DAB Salisbury AM/FM 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, 8 January 2011
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Chris10:01 AM
Ringwood
I have lost freeview channels for the Meridian Region, it had been working reasonably with Hitachi TV, now changed to a Toshiba.
All the BBC & related channels are fine it just seems to be those in thge ITV group, I have a Sky receiver and a freesat box.
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Chris's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 17 February 2011
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david6:39 PM
ive heard that the salisbury freeview muxes increase power in september 2011 is this true
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Mike Dimmick8:23 PM
david: for switchover, Salisbury remains part of the Rowridge transmitter group: Digital UK - Rowridge -
However, Digital UK's trade view *is* showing an 'Existing DTT Power-up' event on 28 September 2011. Postcode Checker - Trade View - No details of exactly what's happening are yet available. (RG47SH)
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Friday, 18 February 2011
Mike Dimmick: If I were guessing about this - and there is nothing listed in the official documentation - they might be able to up Multiplex 2 and D, which are at only 320W to 1kW.
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Tuesday, 22 March 2011
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Colin2:12 PM
Christchurch
Despite your prediction, Salisbury is NOT receivable at BH23 8AE. Rowridge is predominant and poor. I would expect Rowridge to be fine after switchover - I doubt Salisbury will be better!
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Colin's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Mike Dimmick5:30 PM
Reading
Colin: The predictor here doesn't have the detailed terrain information or the radiation pattern information that the broadcasters' predictor has. Try the Digital UK tradeview link next to your post.
In this case the problem is that this website assumes omnidirectional transmission, while in fact it appears that the digital aerial array points north-west to fill in the west side of Salisbury itself. It uses four log-periodic aerials in an array to restrict the radiation pattern to a fairly narrow beam.
It could be that the main aerial is used as well as these four smaller aerials and there is an omnidirectional component. The published documents don't say, and the radiation pattern for Salisbury was redacted from Brian's Freedom of Information request.
At switchover, digital services move to the omnidirectional aerial at the top of the tower, but there's still a problem
At your postcode, it shows that your best bet for a full 6-multiplex service is actually the Mendip transmitter (West region). The prediction is for 'marginal' or 'variable' results though. You might get slightly better results from Rowridge (vertical polarization) on the public-service multiplexes, but worse results on the commercial multiplexes. It's likely that it won't work a lot of the time, though, so you may want to consider getting Freesat or Sky.
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Mike's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 31 March 2011
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Saul Warren-Howles2:05 PM
I live in stratford upon avon the digital switchover is on the 31/3.
My wife's mother who is 73 lives in Salisbury, when will their switchover be.
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Mike Dimmick5:30 PM
Reading
Saul Warren-Howles: The Salisbury transmitter switches over starting on the 7th of March 2012 and completes on the 21st of March.
There's a chance that additional retunes may be required before and after switchover, depending on whether there are clashes with other transmitters and whether the plans are updated to release C62 at switchover.
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Mike's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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