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 22/04/2024 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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Friday, 29 June 2012
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Stu Seddon4:34 PM
Lymington
Is it normal for Lymington not to receive any of the Five channels?
My girlfriend needs her Home & Away fix :/
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KMJ,Derby6:19 PM
Stu Seddon: You should be able to receive the full set of Freeview channels. If you have ITV1 and C4 you should also have Channel Five as this is on the same mux, available from all UK TV transmitter sites after DSO, Additionally, if you can receive QVC you should have the remaining Channel Five group channels. Try a manual tune on C27 for D3+4, and C25 for SDN from Rowridge. If you have a non functioning Channel Five in the channel list, do a factory reset to clear the old data before retuning.
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Snarf9:09 PM
I guess the Rowridge engineering works are affecting Film4? It's disappeared off channel 15 and reappeared on channel 810 with a really weak signal.
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KMJ,Derby9:36 PM
Snarf: What do you now have stored in position fifteen of the channel list? I would suspect that the inversion effect could have been at work delivering out of area signals, unless an automatic retune took place which coincided with Rowridge being off the air, resulting in an alternative frequency being stored for ArqB.
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Wednesday, 4 July 2012
Can anyone tell me whether it would be possible to broadcast a digital TV channel from the satellite or repeater station on St Boniface Down, Ventnor, Isle of Wight? OFCOM is a bit vague on this.
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Wednesday, 18 July 2012
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Taras1:39 AM
Hi,
I've lost the COM6 mux completely, I'm in the bh23 area.
itv4 seemed to be choppy and in the last week or so it went completely.
Is it worth doing a swap from horizontal polarization to vertical ?
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Friday, 20 July 2012
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Keith5:09 PM
Worthing
I live in BN12 6QA with a roof top aerial pointing to Rowridge. I am experiencing occasional picture break up of varying severity on sky sports and other commercial channels through my BT Vision box. I was wondering if I should switch the aerial to vertical polarization or would this cause other problems with interference from France, or possibly the Midhurst Transmitter ? Many Thanks.
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Sunday, 22 July 2012
KEITH--------------
If you have a red tipped aerial which is grouped for rowridge, then you should not be getting interference from midhurst, only if you have a black tipped aerial which is wideband, would you receive interference from other transmitters.
Changing to VP for the aerial could cure your problems, however this is not always the case, although you need enough power for the signal to work correctly, you also need the quality of that signal to be good.
As an aerial installer I usually fit aerials now on VP, but have found the odd job that requires HP install.
So I would say give it a try and see if it helps.
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jb387:18 PM
Keith: If your aerial is still mounted horizontally then please note that the commercials only transmit on 50Kw on that mode whereas the vertically polarised transmissions are radiating on 200Kw.
By the way Midhurst cannot cause interference to signals from Rowridge as the latter spans channels from 21 - 28 whereas in the case of Midhurst its 50 - 62, and so if you do get interference at any time it has to be from somewhere else or possibly even from continental stations, your reception of commercials being much more susceptible to being interfered with as you are predicted as only being able to receive them with the status of variable even although they are radiating on 200Kw.
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Barry Quinn10:57 PM
I have lost many of my Freeview channels from the Rowridge transmitter. All seemed to be ok till late last night 21 July..
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