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 29/04/2024 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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Saturday, 7 April 2012
M
MC482:19 PM
@ Solent-Viewer. I am in Totton with an external aerial. Sky News is almost unwatchable here because the signal keeps on pixellating or not being there (No Signal msg). The odd thing is that this has only developed in the last week. I wonder if power has been reduced since Crystal Palace began the switchover on Wednesday.
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Idris
10:04 PM
10:04 PM
I live in Weymouth & we get a reduced Freeview service from a local transmitter on Wyke hill.
I purchased a Triax 52 element group a aerial & mast head booster installed them myself I am a qualifed electrician & as part of my apprentiship back in the 1960's did a few months aerial rigging so I have a little experiance in this field, lined up the aerial using the meter in the settings menu on the tv & like magic on channels 21 & 27 receive a 77% signal.
Look forwards to 18th of April when if my info. is correct channels 30 33 & 37 are also boosted to 20k as well.
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jb3811:45 PM
Idris: If you are referring to reception from Rowridge then its with an extreme bit of luck, as you are predicted as at no time being able to receive any commercial muxes from this station, even after switchover, but however the best reception on the PSB muxes is indicated as being by far the best from the vertically polarised transmissions from Rowridge, so if the aerial is not presently on that polarity maybe you could turn it around 90 degrees to the vertical position.
By the way the channels after switchover are 24 - 27 - 21 - 25 - 22 - 28, the latter three presently being on 30 - 37 - 33 until the 18th.
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jb3811:47 PM
Weymouth
Idris: Forgot to qualify this by saying that the predictions seen are from a test code being used of DT4 8HA, Weymouth post office.
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jb38's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 8 April 2012
K
KMJ,Derby12:35 AM
Idris: Further to the comments from jb38; the main problem for reception of the COM muxes from Rowridge will be interference from Stockland Hill, which uses the same frequencies. Stockland Hill uses horizontal polarisation, so using vertical polarisation for Rowridge as well as careful aerial positioning so as to null out Stockland, if there is an unwanted signal from there, might be necessary.
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Idris
4:34 AM
4:34 AM
Hi
Will turn the aerial 90 degrees after the 18th of April
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Idris
8:45 PM
Weymouth
8:45 PM
Weymouth
Hi Again
A request from some who may have the info I want.
The Digosville transmitter near Cherbourg is almost direct line of sight south from my house in Weymouth.
A couple of years ago I by chance while searching for the Beacon Hill transmitter near Plymouth locked into some France channels,from Cherbourg I presume I am currently undertaking a French course at a local college & would like to find them again if at all possible does anyone know what channels they transmit on so I can try a manual search.
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Idris's: mapI's Freeview map terrainI's terrain plot wavesI's frequency data I's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Idris: Is this what you're looking for?
Rowridge Transmitter
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Idris
11:37 PM
Weymouth
11:37 PM
Weymouth
Cheers Dave
Looks more like I was locked into Caen than Cherbourg.
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Idris's: mapI's Freeview map terrainI's terrain plot wavesI's frequency data I's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 9 April 2012
K
Kim V 11:55 AM
Hello,
I have tried retune, tv is working a bit better but I have lost about 15 channels since switchover, TopupTV box isituation is worst than TV, and no matter how many times I retune, the box doesn't download nor records what it is set up to record. No signal popup appears now and then, while stil able to see some thing ( on some channels). I'm in BH20 DW, smack in the Rowridge green patch. BBC jerky, channels on tuners are 24 27 30 33 37, tuner 1 on 24 tuner 2 on 30 topup tv channels . I am at lost as to what to do. (50.6760,-2.2298)
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