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, 30 August 2017
MikeP
10:35 AM
10:35 AM
Peter Ball:
The symptoms you describe are a classic indication that the PVR has a fault and needs internal attention. Alternatively, it may need to be replaced.
But try disconnecting it from the mains supply for at least five minutes. Then plkug in again and wait a further five minutes to let the box reset completely. Then try turning it on and checking its response.
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Transmitter engineering
5:32 PM
5:32 PM
ROWRIDGE transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 14:35 today to 15:05 today, HD Digital TV Wrong Region from 15:05 today to 15:37 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 14:35 today to 15:05 today, HD Digital TV Wrong Region from 15:05 today to 15:37 today. [BBC]
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Thursday, 31 August 2017
Transmitter engineering
5:32 AM
5:32 AM
ROWRIDGE transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 14:35 yesterday to 15:05 yesterday, HD Digital TV Wrong Region from 15:05 yesterday to 15:37 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 14:35 yesterday to 15:05 yesterday, HD Digital TV Wrong Region from 15:05 yesterday to [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
5:32 PM
5:32 PM
ROWRIDGE transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Wrong Region from 15:05 yesterday to 15:37 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 14:35 yesterday to 15:05 yesterday, HD Digital TV Wrong Region from 15:05 yesterday to 15:37 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 14:35 yesterday to [BBC]
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Friday, 1 September 2017
Transmitter engineering
5:34 AM
5:34 AM
ROWRIDGE transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 14:35 on 30 Aug to 15:05 on 30 Aug, HD Digital TV Wrong Region from 15:05 on 30 Aug to 15:37 on 30 Aug, HD Digital TV Off Air from 14:35 on 30 Aug to 15:05 on 30 Aug, HD Digital TV Wrong Region from 15:05 on 30 Aug to [BBC]
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Peter Ball9:48 AM
MikeP:
de Peter Ball
Thanks for the reply Mike.
I switched off, as you suggested, did a full retune and deleted the channels that I would not wish to view.
So far the response time is back to normal and at least two programmes have recorded as I selected in the guide.
The PVR had been behaving itself upto the time I did the previous retune which made me suspicious it was the retune that was at fault. So many useless channels these days.
Kind regards
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MikeP
10:43 AM
10:43 AM
Peter Ball:
Glad it's all working properly again.
A retune will never affect the PVRs ability to record unless the channel is not available because of either an aerial fault, quite common, or a 'lock up' of the PVR. The process of switching off, waiting 5 minutes and switching back on forces the PVR electronics to restart and usually, but not always, clears such faults. If the power supply in the PVR has developed problems the fault could occur again. That would then suggest a replacement would be needed.
You do not ned to delete any channels, even if you never watch them. Having 'unwanted' channels does not affect the way the device works and merelt serves to confuse the software system as it expects to have a full listing of the available channels. If there are channels you don't watch then don't select them on the remote. No matter what you do, they will always appear in the channel guides, but if you delete them you will never know what programmes they were offering thast some of your visitors might want to watch.
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Sunday, 1 October 2017
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Christine Green11:36 AM
There is no info at all about loss of ITS,C4 and others on mud from 9am ! ' on Rowridge or Ventnor transmitter,how do I find out for report it
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Christine Green11:37 AM
Flipping predictive text - MUX
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Tuesday, 17 October 2017
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John5:39 PM
why is it that nearly every evening cannels like Dave, Pick E4+1 and most +1 channels start to Pixelate it is so annoying yet when I check again in the morning everything is fine,, tid is very frustrating because if I retune I then lose half my channels and have to retune again the next day...
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