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 05/06/2023 Pixelation or flickering 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, 8 November 2013
Steve Baker:
I would find it strange for them to invest in the introduction of VP to only give HP more channels.
Especially as all new aerial installs are being fitted with VP rather than HP.
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HELP
there seems to be conflicting information on different sites
New HD services com7 and com8
Are they going to only be on Rowridge HP or both HP and VP????
As all new installs are being fitted on VP and some old installs being changed from HP to VP due to its far superior reception, it is a bit of a concern that they would not include the new HD channels on VP even with it being outputted at a rubbish strength.
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Saturday, 9 November 2013
HELP
there seems to be conflicting information on different sites
New HD services com7 and com8
Are they going to only be on Rowridge HP or both HP and VP????
As all new installs are being fitted on VP and some old installs being changed from HP to VP due to its far superior reception, it is a bit of a concern that they would not include the new HD channels on VP even with it being outputted at a rubbish strength
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Sunday, 10 November 2013
why is it that I and many others spend lots of time giving people advice but when it comes to having my questions answered NOBODY can be bothered!!!!
:(
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Michael7:20 PM
jamie stevens: If you're that bothered, why not get in touch with Ofcom or Digital UK? That's where this site gets its information from, and it seems like the postcode checker only has Com7 on HP.
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Monday, 11 November 2013
Michael-
I have been onto Digital UK and they are not sure.
They will investigate.
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Wednesday, 13 November 2013
P
Peter5:17 PM
Emsworth
I am unable to get ITV, C4, 5 (10 services missing in all) etc in Emsworth since yesterday. Have tried re-tuning, no luck at all. Any idea why?
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Peter:
You seem to have issues with UHF 27.
Are all other channels working without issue??
Are you having the same issue on multiple tvs?
What is your postcode?
Where is you aerial mounted?
Generally Emsworth has very good reception ( I am local to you)
Your issue is likely to be some part of the system or your tv as the transmitter is working fine.
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Monday, 18 November 2013
S
Steve8:11 PM
Waterlooville
No BBC since Sunday.1,2,7 and 9 all gone. Do I still have to pay my licence fee for this non existent so called service? PO8 9UW is post code.
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MikeB9:04 PM
Steve: Before complaining about the licence fee (a frequent complaint on these pages, however unwarrented), have you actually checked your equipment (any loose connections, etc) and signal strength?
Although your terrain plot shows an obstruction some 7km away from you, your not that far from the transmitter, which is apparently working normally. Are you getting the BBC channels, yet they are breaking up? or are they entirely gone?
If its the first, your signal strength is perhaps too high, and if its the latter, your missing the mux, which might be due to any number of reasons.
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