Freeview Light on the Peebles (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Peebles (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmitter which serves 4,500 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 Peebles (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) mast?
Peebles transmitter - Peebles transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 18/11/2024 Screen may go black 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.
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Peebles (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which Freeview channels does the Peebles 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 | H/V | Frequency | Height | Mode | Watts |
| PSB1 BBCA | V max | C28 (530.0MHz) | 400m | DTG- | 20W |
 1 BBC One (SD) Scotland, 2 BBC Two Scotland, 7 BBC Alba HD, 23 BBC Three, 24 BBC Four (Scotland SD), 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 13 others | |||||
| PSB2 D3+4 | V max | C25 (506.0MHz) | 400m | DTG- | 20W |
 3 STV (SD) (Border (Scotland)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) Scotland ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 Scotland ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Yorkshire Emley Moor), 35 STV+1 (Yorkshire Emley Moor), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C22 (482.0MHz) | 400m | DTG- | 20W |
 46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Scotland, 102 BBC Two HD Scotland, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Granada), 103 STV HD (ITV Granada), 104 Channel 4 HD Scotland ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 108 BBC Scotland HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others | |||||
Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?
The Peebles (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Peebles transmitter?
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 70km west-northwest (290°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
ITV Lookaround 0.1m homes 0.4%
from Carlisle CA1 3NT, 89km south-southeast (167°)
to ITV Border Scotland region - 27 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with Tyne Tees
How will the Peebles (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2008 | 2008-13 | 31 Mar 2017- | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | |||||
| C22 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C25 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C28 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C32 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 6 Nov 08 and 20 Nov 08.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 100W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20W |
Local transmitter maps
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Monday, 27 March 2017
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Bob Abbot12:51 PM
Peebles
Forgot to add my postcode - EH45 8EF.
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Bob's: mapB's Freeview map terrainB's terrain plot wavesB's frequency data B's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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StevensOnln12:00 PM
Bob Abbot: There's been no advanced warning of planned engineering work on the Peebles transmitter so it's reasonable to assume that there is currently a fault (services off air since 9:22 this morning according to the engineering post above yours). If your phone signal normally comes from a mobile base station on the same transmitter mast (most TV and radio transmitter masts also host base stations for the mobile networks) then it could be that either the mobile services have been switched off to allow engineers to safely work on the mast, or possibly that there has been a loss of mains power at the transmitter and any backup battery supply has been exhausted.
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3:10 PM
Peebles
Bob Abbot: thanks bob, no notification, all channels off, radio off. Any update on completion? Why is my transistor radio still picking up borders radio? That just confused everything. Eh45 8qq. I can see the mast from my window.
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Perkins's: ...
Tuesday, 20 November 2018
Post code EH45 9DX Over the past couple of weeks my Freeview signal has been poor with Low Signal' constantly displayed on screen. The aerial is in the loft pointing towards PEEBLES transmitter. Interestingly when I do a manual retune only the SELKIRK and Black Hill transmitters come up as an option. I can only conclude the PEEBLES transmitter has been switched off. Is this correct?
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Friday, 4 June 2021
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Brian11:05 AM
We have had no freeview signal since 9.15 this morning. It happens far too often to make the licence fee worth paying. We don't get a full freeview service at the best of times, but this is very annoying. We don't even get digital radio!
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Chris.SE11:34 PM
Brian:
As you have no doubt discovered by now, your signals are back. The BBC have reported that the transmitter was Off the air due to essential engineering from 9:02am to 1:32pm on 4th Jun 2021.
Just so you know, advice is not to retune if you lose signal (for whatever reason) as this usually just clears the correct tuning.
Going by previous reports, the transmitter doesn't appear to be off-air on a frequent basis.
There are DAB radio transmissions from the Peebles transmitter, it transmits the BBC National multiplex Block 12B: 225.648 MHz. If you provide a full postcode we may be able to provide some reception advice. We might also be able to advise if you may be able to receive the commercial TV multiplexes from another transmitter. Other options are Freesat, if you have an unobstructed view to the Astra 2 satellite 28.2 deg E. A lot of modern sets have built in satellite tuners, so all you need is the Dish and LNB.
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Friday, 3 September 2021
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B French6:37 AM
We can only get bbc channels on freeview since 9.30 yesterday morning.
What is going on in Peebles.
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Saturday, 4 September 2021
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Chris.SE2:03 AM
B French:
The Peebles transmitter is a relay of Selkirk and some viewers have been having problems with it but I can't find any "official" fault reports! Based on comments I've seen you should be getting the HD channels (if your set has an HD tuner) so you should have ITV, Ch4 and Ch5 in HD.
Do not retune as this will just generally clear your correct tuning and you'll just have to repeat the process when signals are back to normal.
If you are still having issues, please provide a full postcode so we can look at predicted reception in your locale.
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Sunday, 24 October 2021
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Chris.SE9:15 PM
Malcolm:
Have the channels returned?
I can't find any faults or outages listed for the Peebles Relay Transmitter either by Freeview or the BBC.
Was it a case of the channels disappearing but signal was still present, or did the No Signal message pop-up?
If it was the latter, I hope you didn't retune!
Retuning when you have no signal or badly pixellated pictures will usually just clear the correct tuning. There should be no need to retune these days unless a commercial operator has made some changes to their channels and you'll usually get a pop-up message to that effect.
If you did retune and you haven't got the channels back, you'll need to repeat the retune when signals are normal, you may have to try several times as you won't know when that will be.
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