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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 25/03/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels Digital tick


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Which Freeview channels does the Rowridge transmitter broadcast?

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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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
 H max
C24 (498.0MHz)
320mDTG-200,000W
200,000W
Channel icons
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
 H max
C27 (522.0MHz)
320mDTG-200,000W
200,000W
Channel icons
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
 H max
C21+ (474.2MHz)
320mDTG-200,000W
200,000W
Channel icons
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

COM4
SDN
 H -6dB
 V -6dB
C25 (506.0MHz)
299mDTG-850,000W
50,000W
Channel icons
20 Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 Dave ja vu, 58 ITVBe +1, 59 ITV3 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 78 TCC, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 89 ITV4 +1, 91 WildEarth, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 267 Al Jazeera English, plus 30 others

COM5
ArqA
 H -6dB
 V -6dB
C22+ (482.2MHz)
302mDTG-850,000W
50,000W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 Yesterday +1, 75 That's 90s, 233 Sky News, plus 11 others

COM6
ArqB
 H -6dB
 V -6dB
C28 (530.0MHz)
302mDTG-850,000W
50,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 W, 27 Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! romance, 56 That's TV (UK), 61 GREAT! movies extra, 63 GREAT! romance mix, 71 That’s 60s, 73 HobbyMaker, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

LSO
 H -13dB
C37 (602.0MHz)299mDTG-1210,000W
Channel icons
from 22nd December 2014: 7 That's Solent,

DTG-8 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?

regional news image
BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 26km north (354°)
to BBC South region - 39 masts.
regional news image
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 DocksTransposer2 km N city centre50 homes Estimate. Group of houses'

How will the Rowridge (Isle Of Wight, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

1950s-80s1984-971997-981998-20122012-132 May 2018
VHFA K TA K TA K TA K TW T
C3BBCtvwaves
C21C4wavesC4wavesC4waves+BBCBBBCB
C22+ArqAArqA
C24BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCA
C25SDNSDN
C27ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C28ArqBArqB
C29LSO
C31BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavescom7
C37com8
C55tv_offcom7tv_off
C56tv_offCOM8tv_off

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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

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Rowridge transmitter area

Aug 1958-Jan 1992Southern Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992Television South (TVS)
Jan 1993-Feb 2004Meridian
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Rowridge 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.

Comments
Saturday, 7 January 2017
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StevensOnln1
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11:05 PM

kim: No one else has reported any problems with Rowridge on this website, are these local reports of problems? I'm not sure what you mean about digital being secretive?

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Monday, 9 January 2017
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Dan
2:30 PM

Hi
Please can anyone tell me if there are any problems receiving COM7, (BBC News HD, Al Jazeera English HD and RT HD) In Portsmouth PO1?

This website suggests it should be ok but Freeview.co.uk suggest you cant receive those channels.

Thank you for your help.

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MikeP
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4:09 PM

Dan:

To be able to assist we need a full post code, PO1 is not accurate enough as it covers such a wide area.



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Dan
7:57 PM
Portsmouth

Hi Mike P

Postcode is PO1 3PA

Thanks for your help.

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ColinK
8:08 PM

kim: I like you live in Eastleigh and am not having any problems with COM4 or the other Muxes.

If you're not receiving it but are getting everything else it sounds like a re-tune of your tv/box might get you fully running.

Hope it helps.

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Tuesday, 10 January 2017
MikeP
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7:01 PM

Dan:

Before you try to retune, you must check all your aerial connections first. They must be clean and tight with no chance of slipping out.

You should also check the signal strength reported by your TV set (the User Manual will tell you how to do that on your particular TV) and then report them back to us. The reason for this check is that having too strong signal often appears as you describe.

Let us know how things are after all that and without doing any retuning (that is a last resort and is likely to cause a loss of more channels!



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Wednesday, 11 January 2017
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Dan
11:20 AM

MikeP:

Sorry if I've confused you.

We don't have an installation yet but am planning one in the next few months. So it will be brand new by a good company.

What i'm trying to work out is if we should receive COM7 or not. This website suggests it is being broadcast from Rowridge at 24KW but when you type the postcode into freeview.co.uk it HD channels on COM7 do not appear.
We are on the waters edge in Portsmouth so don't have any obstructions between us and Rowridge. Does anyone else in Portsmouth receive COM7 and more specifically BBC News HD, Al Jazeera English HD and RT HD?

Thanks

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MikeP
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4:23 PM

Dan:

If you click on the 'digitaluk trade' link at the bottom of your post, or try Coverage Checker - Detailed View yiu will see that your post code should get COM7 easily despite the lower power than the 'main' services. It is on the horizontally polarised service but is not on the vertically polarised service. So any new aerial should be set for horizontal reception to get these channels.

Hope that helps?



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kim
9:24 PM
Eastleigh

kim: served: Rowridge, area: Eastleigh, Hants: 9 January, and the channels 'which said no video' (10,20,21,26,etc) from Com4 are all back. I did nothing.
Many thanks for the quick response to my query. I only mention secretive, as there are no announcements that something (eg atmospheric conditions) may be affecting some reception areas.. it just seems, they die - and we wait in hope, till they come back.

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Thursday, 12 January 2017
MikeP
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4:15 PM

Kim:

In my many years of experience with both analogue and digital TV, the broadcasters have never announced anything about atmospheric conditions as that is not in their remit - it is a matter for weather forecasters such as the Met Office to report about. In the days of Ceefax/Teletext, booth BBC and ITV had pages reporting about transmitter issues and often included weather effects. Sadly, they got rid of what was a very useful service and replaced it with a very truncated attempt that had nothing about transmissions and conditions.

So the broadcasters are not being secretive at all. It is up to you, me and other viewers to do the research and then to understand the implications of the results.



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