Full Freeview on the Rosneath (Argyll and Bute, Scotland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Rosneath (Argyll and Bute, Scotland) transmitter which serves 41,000 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 Rosneath (Argyll and Bute, Scotland) mast?
ROSNEATH transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to a fault from 29 Oct 02:17 until 29 Oct 05:07. . 
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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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Rosneath (Argyll and Bute, Scotland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
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 Rosneath 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Rosneath (Argyll and Bute, Scotland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
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 Rosneath transmitter?
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 35km east-southeast (117°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
STV News 1.3m homes 4.8%
from Glasgow G51 1PQ, 35km east-southeast (117°)
to STV Central (Glasgow) region - 94 masts.
How will the Rosneath (Argyll and Bute, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1968-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 5 Sep 2018 | ||
| VHF | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | C/D E T | W T | ||
| C2 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C13 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C33 | SDN | ||||||||
| C36 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C39 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C42 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C45 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C48 | _local | _local | _local | _local | |||||
| C49tv_off | BBCA | BBCA | |||||||
| C53tv_off | SDN | SDN | SDN | ||||||
| C54tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||
| C57tv_off | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ||||||
| C58tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||
| C60tv_off | -ArqB | -ArqB | ArqB | ||||||
| C61 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | |||||
| C64 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
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 11 May 11 and 25 May 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 10kW | |
| COM4||, COM5||, COM6||, PSB1||, PSB2||, PSB3|| | (-7dB) 2kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 200W | |
| Mux A* | (-20dB) 100W | |
| COM4≡, COM5≡, COM6≡, PSB1≡, PSB2≡, PSB3≡ | (-31dB) 8W |
Local transmitter maps
Rosneath Freeview Rosneath DAB Rosneath AM/FM Rosneath TV region BBC Scotland STV Central (Glasgow micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Rosneath transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldTuesday, 6 November 2018
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Martin B3:37 PM
sarah macrae: Im afraid something has changed with your aerial system - its failed. The fact that its worse when raining suggests water ingress - that is, the seals have failed and rainwater is getting into the aerial and its downlead cable (coaxial cables suck up water!)
You need to have the aerial and cable checked by an installer or other competent person, and probably either the cable, aerial, or both, will need replacing.
When TV aerial systems start to fail, they dont just stop working, they do die slowly, and the effects on reception get slowly worse. At least youve noticed it now and can get it sorted before the weather gets really bad!
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thank you will look to getting loft aerial as the west of Scotland is always wild
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Martin B4:52 PM
sarah macrae: It can indeed be!
At the same time, the installer can check the condition of the mast and brackets/lashing kit etc, and those can be replaced if worn - it wouldnt be very good if you had a shiny new aerial only for the lashing to snap and the whole lot fall off the roof in the next storm!
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Tuesday, 25 May 2021
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RONALD MCKENZIE12:38 PM
For the last few days I have had problems with picture quality - pixelating - and at the same time sound disappears. Are these indicative of fluctuations in signal strength/quality from the Rosneath transmitter?
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Chris.SE3:52 PM
RONALD MCKENZIE:
The simple answer is yes, possibly. However, I can't find any reports of any current or recent faults at Rosneath by the BBC or Freeview and it hasn't been recently listed for Planned Engineering.
Depending on your location, you might be able to receive other transmitters and if you retuned at all if there was any brief interuption due to weather conditions etc., you might have inadvertently got tuned to the wrong transmitter. Check in your TV's tuning section that you are tuned to the UHF channels listed at the very top of the page. Those in the 5 Sep 2018 listing lower down are not up-to-date.
If you are correctly tuned, check that your downlead looks undamaged and that your aerial seems intact and pointing in the correct direction. Also check all you coax plugs, connections, flyleads etc, unplug connectors check for corrosion or other problems and reconnect them. Flyleads can be a common problem, try swapping them. See what signal strengths (if any) and quality you are getting for the multiplexes shown in your TV's tuning section, this might indicate potential issues with your aerial or downlead.
Aerial mis-alignments, problematic connections, water ingress etc. can seem to affect reception of just AN individual or several multiplexes.
If you've altered anything around in your installation, check that you don't have any HDMI leads close to any aerial or flyleads, especially if the aerial and flyleads aren't high quality double screened types. HDMI is known to sometimes cause interference.
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Saturday, 30 July 2022
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Dougie Blackwood1:49 PM
I have problems with the signal from the Rosneath transmitter. Several stations are either not contactable or unwatchable. Diagnostics on my TV (LG) tell me that the signals are varying depending on the carrier channel. Channels 36 and 39 are 100% stregnth and quality; channels 42 and 48 are good to fair. Channel 33 which carries Quest varies from next to no signal to fair from moment to moment. I've retuned the channels several times, only seldom is Quest picked up; when it is openable it comes and goes and is unwatchable. the same problem persists in several TVs in my house. I can see the TV mast from my window and have had a new arial professionally installed.
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Chris.SE4:48 PM
Dougie Blackwood:
Apart from the fact that current weather conditions might periodically be causing some disruption to reception, it's never a good idea to retune if you have low signal quality or large errors, it can result in clearing your correct tuning and possibly tuning to incorrect channels from more distant transmitters receivable because of the weather.
There are currently no listed faults for the Roseneath transmitter that I can find and it doesn't appear to be listed for Planned Engineering.
That said, you mention the correct UHF channels, but not C45 which is the PSB3/BBCB HD multiplex, so am I correct in thinking you don't get the HD channels on 101-105 etc. (your sets don't have a T2/HD tuner) ?
You say you can see the mast but how far away is it?
Are your aerial rods (or squashed Xs) horizontal or vertical?
How old (roughly) is the aerial?
Was the coax from the aerial replaced at the same time as the aerial?
You presumably have a splitter if feeding more than one TV, is it just a passive splitter or an amp/splitter, if the latter, how old?
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Thursday, 3 October 2024
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
Rosneath transmitter - Rosneath transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 30/09/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 7 October 2024
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
Rosneath transmitter - Rosneath transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 07/10/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Tuesday, 29 October 2024
Transmitter engineering
5:10 AM
5:10 AM
ROSNEATH transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to a fault from 29 Oct 02:17. . [BBC]
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