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
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Tuesday, 20 September 2011
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Heavenscentrose9:03 PM
Brighton
Thank you for letting me know, Mike.
Hope they soon sort out the engineering works and we can see all the channels again!
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Heavenscentrose10:17 PM
Brighton
Hi
I've just re-tuned and everything appears to be OK.
Once again, thank you for your help, Mike.
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Friday, 23 September 2011
Hello Brian and everyone here. My aerial has only 7 out of 8 reflectors, but this SHOULDN'T change anything. But it has. When I had all 8 reflector bars, BBC News on DVB-T was watchable - a few freezes and blocks now and then, but on the whole pretty good. Now, I know how MPEG-2 works (thanks to WP and ukfree.tv and YT), but I cannot receive a DVB-T multiplex anymore. I used to have multiplex 1 and one of the COM multiplexes, but now, on C34/1, Signal Quality is poor and signal strength is low. Mind you I can no longer receive anything after the aerial damage (which also required a few clips lopped off). I still get analogue, by the way, so DSO is not here yet.
My aerial is in a strange place - on top of a wheelie bin - because that worked until the damage! The aerial is an X-Clip type.
Can anyone give me any advice on aerial placement for a damaged aerial that still receives a nearly usable analogue picture?
Should I remove the boom with the damage?
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Sunday, 25 September 2011
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John Ormerod1:30 PM
HD on Freeview
Hello
Until a few weeks ago, I'd assumed that HD would need extra bandwidth and was limited to satellite. It seems that's not the case. What I am not clear about is what exactly is available? Yes, I have just looked at the FreeHD page, and am not much the wiser.
We don't have a HD-capable TV or digibox, but we could make the move, if the content is worthwhile.
We just had a couple of weeks holiday in France, and the TV in the flat had 4 or 5 of their main freeview channels in HD and standard.
The impression I have been under is: there is just one BBC HD channel that shows selected programmes from BBC1 and 2. Though a glance at this week's listings showed some programmes in HD on 1 and 2 being broadcast at the same time... hence my confusion.
The FreeHD page suggests that there will be a BBC1 HD service starting in Nov... so now am even more confused (and disappointed as there is little worth watching on BBC 1 these days). How about BBC4 HD - if the French can do it...
If this is explained somewhere, I'd be grateful if someone could provide a link to the site.
Regards, John
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Monday, 26 September 2011
Also, I can only receive freeview at night. And only 30-so channels of it. I'm not in a Lite area, so I do not get this. My aerial at so50 9ns is on a wheelie bin at no. 12.
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Tuesday, 27 September 2011
ROWRIDGE transmitter - Analogue BBC TWO Weak Signal from 02:37 today to 02:44 today [BBC]
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ROWRIDGE transmitter - Analogue BBC TWO Weak Signal from 02:37 today to 02:44 today [BBC]
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They should make Fawley a retransmitter of Rowridge, for all muxes and channels.
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Mike Dimmick6:01 PM
Jack Johnson: There will be no need whatever to do that after switchover, and there is no prospect of any changes being made before switchover.
There are no free channels in this area - Fawley Channel 5 had to close to allow Rowridge to take over C37 - and the 2K mode doesn't lend itself to Single Frequency Network operation.
You should replace the aerial entirely. They are not designed to work with elements missing and are not designed to have parts replaced, either.
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Mike Dimmick6:08 PM
John Ormerod: HD services start from Rowridge at the second stage of switchover, 21 March 2012. I don't know where the November date has come from, perhaps you are close enough to a West or Westcountry transmitter that the Freeview HD site (which scrapes the Digital UK predictor results) thinks you can get it from there - though this would be November 2009 or November 2010. The only transmitter site switching over *this* November is Tacolneston near Norwich.
The line-up for regions that have switched over is currently:
BBC One HD
BBC HD
ITV1 HD
Channel 4 HD (4hd)
BBC One HD, ITV1 HD and 4hd are all simulcasts - they broadcast exactly the same as the SD version of the channel. If the programme was made in HD, the HD version is broadcast, otherwise the SD programme is 'upscaled' to 1080 lines. The exception is that BBC regional news is not yet carried on BBC One HD - when this is on, BBC One HD broadcasts a caption telling you to switch to BBC One.
BBC HD always broadcasts HD content. This might be a simulcast of something on BBC Two, BBC Three or BBC Four, or it might be another programme made originally for one of those channels in HD.
It is expected that by the time Rowridge switches over, a fifth HD channel will have been squeezed in, but the decision process of what it will be has only just started.
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