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 29/05/2023 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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Saturday, 18 January 2014
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Steve Baker11:21 AM
Well in my experience, kids don't give a hoot about HD.
So long as they can watch the programme that's all they care about, and it's only really because of timesharing with BBC3 & 4 that the kids stuff is in HD anyway.
As a VP user I'd have preferred BBC4-HD on the PSB-B mux, but sadly that's not to be, which is why I'm going Freesat instead.
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TimW: Read postings above yours, including the reply from Arqiva, which is the company that runs the transmitters.
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mort9:48 PM
in the same state as SolentViewer
I have lost chanel 19 and everything from that Mux
live near selsey
any ideas?
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Sunday, 19 January 2014
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Solent-Viewer8:43 AM
Chichester
Having seen your message Mort, I checked all of mux that serves 19 and all of that section has gone for me too. I did a full retune and the TV could not find any of them. Summat must have gone wrong at the transmitter!
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Sean9:22 AM
Ch19 OK in Horndean. I'm on VP, you didn't say if you're VP or HP.
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Solent-Viewer9:24 AM
Chichester
I'm working from a HP aerial and it was new just a year ago. Everything has been fine until yesterday.
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Solent-Viewer9:27 AM
Chichester
CORRECTION>.> strike yetsreday and replace with Friday. That mux went missing Friday.
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steve baker8:36 PM
No problems with 19 (or any of that mux) here either, but I'm also on VP.
I did always have reception problems with Com6 when I was on HP though, which is why I changed.
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Monday, 20 January 2014
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Solent-Viewer3:19 PM
Another full retune this afternoon and that 19 and the rest of mux C28 (530.0MHz) is still entirely missing.
My TV licience is due 28/2/14 and this is one viewer who will not be paying and I'll have my time in court to explain why.
A new aerial and lead with a new TV only a year ago so we should expect better than this p-poor service or rather lack of it!!
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Solent-Viewer: Just to make it clear: you are required to pay the Licence if you can watch any live TV. The law makes no exceptions.
Reception is down to you as a viewer. If you can't get a commercial multiplex properly, then your duty is to pay the TV LIcence and pay an engineer to visit your home.
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