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51.056,-1.807 or 51°3'21"N 1°48'26"W

SP2 8NZ

4G at 800MHz (at800) Freeview reception issues

Tests now show that SOME households that use masthead amplifiers (and some communal aerial systems) AND are in poor signal areas AND that are very close to a 4G phone mast MAY have their Freeview service disturbed: C59: ArqA, C60: D3+4
See Expecting 4G interference? Tests now show that you have a one in 300 chance.

This transmitter has no current reported problems

The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) transmitter. Click to recheck

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The symbol shows the location of the Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) transmitter which serves 31,000 homes.

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Meridian (South Coast micro region)

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

Radiation patterns withheld

What do the colours on the map mean?

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.

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Which Freeview channels does the Salisbury 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.

Mux	Aerial position	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	vertical max	C57 (762.0MHz)	153m	64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	2,000W
	1 BBC One South, 2 BBC Two England, 7 BBC Three, 9 BBC Four, 70 CBBC Channel, 71 CBeebies, 80 BBC News, 81 BBC Parliament, 301 BBC Red Button 1, plus 12 others
PSB2 D3+4	vertical max	C60- (785.8MHz)	153m	64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	2,000W
	3 ITV (Meridian (South Coast micro region)), 4 Channel 4 South ads, 5 Channel 5 Part Network ads, 6 ITV 2, 13 Channel 4+1 South ads, 14 More 4, 28 E4, 33 ITV +1 (Meridian south coast),
PSB3 BBCB	vertical max	C53 (730.0MHz)	153m	256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4	2,000W
	101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 ITV HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 303 BBC Red Button HD, plus 1 others 232 The Space,
COM4 SDN	vertical max	C50 (706.0MHz)	153m	64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	2,000W
	10 ITV 3, 20 G.O.L.D. (not free), 25 Dave ja vu, 26 Home (not free), 27 ITV 2 +1, 30 5, 31 5USA, 34 ESPN UK (not free*), 38 Quest, 39 The Zone, 44 Channel 5 +1, 72 CITV, plus 21 others
COM5 ArqA	vertical max	C59- (777.8MHz)	152m	64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	2,000W
	11 PICK TV, 12 Dave, 17 Really, 29 E4+1, 32 Movie Mix, 46 Challenge, 48 Food Network, 82 Sky News, 87 Community Channel, 302 BBC Red Button 2, plus 9 others
COM6 ArqB	vertical max	C55 (746.0MHz)	152m	64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	2,000W
	15 Film 4, 18 4Music, 19 Yesterday, 21 VIVA, 24 ITV 4, 41 Sky Sports 1 (not free), 42 Sky Sports 2 (not free), 47 4seven, 83 Al Jazeera English, 85 RT English , plus 22 others

Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Salisbury transmitter?

BBC South Today 1.3m homes 4.9%
from Southampton SO14 7PU, 32km east-southeast
to BBC South region - 39 masts.

ITV Meridian News 0.8m homes 3.2%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 44km east-southeast
to ITV Meridian (South Coast) region - 36 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian plus Oxford

How will the Salisbury (Wiltshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?

	years	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2012	2012-13	15/5/13-	2013-18
	aerial group	C/D E	C/D E	C/D E	C/D E	C/D E	C/D E
700	C50					SDN	SDN
	C51						local
	C52			-D
	C53	C4	C4	C4	BBCB	BBCB	BBCB
	C55			-1	ArqB	ArqB	ArqB
	C56			-2
	C57	BBC1	BBC1	BBC1	BBCA	BBCA	BBCA
	C59			-A	-ArqA	-ArqA	-ArqA
	C60	ITV	ITV	ITV	-D3+4	-D3+4	-D3+4
800	C62			-B	SDN
	C63	BBC2	BBC2	BBC2
	C65			C
	C68		C5	C5

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green background for transmission frequencies

lilac background for power levels in watts

800MHz band: 4G mobile to start in 2013

700MHz band: possible 4G in 2019 more

600MHz band: new or moved digital TV services more

Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W
Italics for analogue, digital switchover was Wednesdays 7th March and 21st March 2012.

Ofcom have projected that a local television service for Salisbury could use an Interleaved Frequency on the Salisbury transmitter using C51

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4	10kW
Analogue 5, SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-7dB) 2kW
Mux 1, Mux A, Mux B, Mux C	(-10dB) 1000W
Mux D*	(-11.9dB) 640W
Mux 2*	(-14.9dB) 320W

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

Aug 1958-Jan 1992	Southern Television
Jan 1982-Dec 1992	Television South (TVS)
Jan 1993-Feb 2004	Meridian
Feb 2004-Dec 2014	ITV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Salisbury 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.

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Briantist
Monday 25 July 2011 9:01AM

david: There are no analogue broadcasts of channels carried now in both formats. The change of mode on the Arqiva multiplexes at switchover will provide about four more TV channels.

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Transmitter engineering
Saturday 30 July 2011 4:40PM

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