Full Freeview on the Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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51.056,-1.807 or 51°3'21"N 1°48'26"W

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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 02/10/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name

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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.

Mux	H/V	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	V max	C41 (634.0MHz)	153m	DTG-	2,000W
	1 BBC One (SD) South, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 17 others
PSB2 D3+4	V max	C44- (657.8MHz)	153m	DTG-	2,000W
	3 ITV 1 (SD) (Meridian (South Coast micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) South ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Meridian south coast),
PSB3 BBCB	V max	C47 (682.0MHz)	153m	DTG-	2,000W
	46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD South, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others 66 TBN UK,
COM4 SDN	V max	C29 (538.0MHz)	153m	DTG-8	2,000W
	20 Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 Great! Movies Action, 57 Dave ja vu, 58 ITVBe +1, 59 ITV3 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 CBS Reality, 68 RealityXtra, 78 TCC, 81 Blaze +1, 89 ITV4 +1, 91 WildEarth, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 267 Al Jazeera English, plus 35 others
COM5 ArqA	V max	C31- (553.8MHz)	152m	DTG-8	2,000W
	Smithsonian Channel, 11 Sky Arts, 17 Really, 19 Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 pick, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 Drama +1, 65 That's 60s, 70 Quest +1, 74 Yesterday +1, 75 That's 80s, 233 Sky News, plus 11 others
COM6 ArqB	V max	C37 (602.0MHz)	152m	DTG-8	2,000W
	Quest Red +1, Classic Hits, 12 Quest, 25 W, 27 Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 Great! Movies Christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 61 GREAT! movies +1, 63 Great! Movies Christmas 1, 71 That’s 60s, 73 HobbyMaker, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 83 Together TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 20 others

DTG-8 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
C50_{tv_off}					SDN	SDN
C51_{tv_off}				_local	_local	_local
C53_{tv_off}	C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves	BBCB	BBCB	BBCB
C55_{tv_off}				ArqB	ArqB	ArqB
C57_{tv_off}	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBCA	BBCA	BBCA
C59_{tv_off}				-ArqA	-ArqA	-ArqA
C60_{tv_off}	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	-D3+4	-D3+4	-D3+4
C62				SDN
C63	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves
C68		C5_waves	C5_waves

_{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

Aug 1958-Jan 1992	Southern Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992	Television South (TVS)
Jan 1993-Feb 2004	Meridian
Feb 2004-Dec 2014	ITV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Salisbury was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

Transmitter engineering

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11:09 AM

- Freeview: BBC TV Off Air; related from 09:26 today, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 09:26 today. : BBC National DAB Radio Weak from 09:07 today. [BBC]

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js

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12:17 PM

Dorothy Bunsee: There's a report at the top of the page now:

" - Freeview: BBC TV Off Air; related from 09:26 today,"

It doesn't say when it's coming back though.

I thought we'd done DSO already.

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Transmitter engineering

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2:09 PM

- Freeview: BBC TV Off Air; related from 09:26 today to 11:10 today, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 09:26 today to 11:10 today. : BBC National DAB Radio Weak from 09:07 today. [BBC]

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Bill D
3:59 PM

SpireFM say that work is taking place on the from today (9.11.17) until Monday. Work will take place between 9am and 5pm, and the transmitter may be down for up to an hour at a time during that period.

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5:09 PM

- Freeview: BBC TV Off Air; related from 14:25 today, BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 14:25 today, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 14:25 today. : BBC National DAB Radio Weak from 09:07 today. [BBC]

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8:09 PM

- Freeview: BBC TV Off Air; related from 14:25 today, BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 14:25 today to 16:00 today, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 14:25 today to 16:00 today. : BBC National DAB Radio Weak from 09:07 tod [BBC]

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2:09 PM

- Freeview: BBC TV Off Air; related from 14:25 yesterday to 16:00 yesterday, BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 10:13 today to 12:46 today, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 10:13 today. : BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 10:13 [BBC]

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5:09 PM

- Freeview: BBC TV Off Air; related from 14:25 yesterday to 16:00 yesterday, BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 10:13 today to 12:46 today, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 10:13 today to 12:46 today. : BBC National DAB Radio Off [BBC]

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Jackie tothill
8:10 PM

I live in wiltonand I've not had any TVs for 3 days I have tried the unplug and leave for a few minutes but nothing ,I would just like to know when I can expect it back on

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StevensOnln1

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11:18 PM

Jackie tothill: work at has been taking place during daytime only and won't be taking place over the weekend. Have you attempted to retune your TV whilst you had ? If you did, this will have deleted all of your (retuning when there is a problem is always a bad idea).

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