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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Wednesday, 4 May 2016
Hi. The MUX that carries the channels such as Really, Sky News etc. is NOT working this evening, Weds 04th May. That is COM5 Arq A. All other muxes are fine. Our transmitter is Rowridge on the IOW and we live in Owslebury near Winchester. All has worked fine up till now. Any ideas what is going on?
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Thursday, 5 May 2016
Transmitter engineering
11:32 AM
11:32 AM
ROWRIDGE transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 10:02 today. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 10:02 today, Radio 2 FM Weak Signal from 10:02 today, Radio 3 FM Weak Signal from 10:02 today, Radio 4 FM Weak Signal from 10:02 today. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
2:32 PM
2:32 PM
ROWRIDGE transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 10:02 today to 11:49 today. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 10:02 today to 11:49 today, Radio 2 FM Weak Signal from 10:02 today to 11:49 today, Radio 3 FM Weak Signal from 10:02 today to 11:49 today, Radio 4 FM [BBC]
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Tony Dix8:28 PM
Bridport
I live at DT6 6AH and have problems with reception despite new yagi 16 element antenna and new cabling due I tink to hills behind the house. My best transmitter so far has been rowridge. Today out of the blue the TV said new channels had been found and a scan locked all the ITV channels on Channel 56. Which transmitter am I on r how can i find out ?
The antenna is pointing at rowridge !!
Thanks
Tony
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Friday, 6 May 2016
Transmitter engineering
5:32 AM
5:32 AM
ROWRIDGE transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 10:02 yesterday to 11:49 yesterday. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 10:02 yesterday to 11:49 yesterday, Radio 2 FM Weak Signal from 10:02 yesterday to 11:49 yesterday, Radio 3 FM Weak Signal from 10:02 yesterda [BBC]
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MikeP
10:31 AM
Trowbridge
10:31 AM
Trowbridge
Tony Dix:
It is definitely not Rowridge as all the signals from there are on channels below 40.
It may be coming from Huntshaw Cross or Mendip. Both use Channel 56 for a full multiplex. Mendip transmits at 100kW so is the more likely source. That means it it is being received via a back lobe of your aerial's receiving pattern.
I suggest you do a full manual tune of the channels listed for Rowridge at the top of this page.
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Saturday, 7 May 2016
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jb3812:06 AM
Tony Dix: Re: problems with reception from the Rowridge transmitter despite having installed a new aerial. Purely out of curiosity, as reception predictors etc would suggest that you reside in a virtually no-go area for Freeview reception, the only possible source of a signal being that of variable (very!) reception of Rowridge PSB muxes, I was wondering if you have ever enjoyed reasonably trouble free reception for any length of time?, as your area is one that Freesat was aimed at.
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Transmitter engineering
5:32 AM
5:32 AM
ROWRIDGE transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 10:02 on 05 May to 11:49 on 05 May. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 10:02 on 05 May to 11:49 on 05 May, Radio 2 FM Weak Signal from 10:02 on 05 May to 11:49 on 05 May, Radio 3 FM Weak Signal from 10:02 on 05 Ma [BBC]
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Tuesday, 10 May 2016
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TIMOTHY GAUNTLETT11:27 PM
Hi there and thanks for your replies. I have in part resolved the problem and it was down to my stupidity in forgetting that the TV is connected via a DVD recorder/player. Disconnecting this and connecting the aerial direct to the TV and carrying out a retune solved the problem and I was able to receive all the HD channels. After then connecting back to the player I was once again missing those same HD channels. The DVD recorder/player is a few years old now so am I likely to suffer the same problem if I upgraded to a new 2016? model.
I live in the BH11 area of Bournemouth/Poole.
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Wednesday, 11 May 2016
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jb3812:32 AM
TIMOTHY GAUNTLETT : Pleased that you have managed to find the reason for your problem. But though as far as your DVD recorder / player is concerned, if it still works OK then there is no reason to change it, as you can resolve the problem referred to by purchasing a small two-way powered splitter, this device supplying the DVD and TV with identical input levels isolated from each other.
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