Full Freeview on the Black Hill (North Lanarkshire, Scotland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Black Hill (North Lanarkshire, Scotland) transmitter which serves 940,000 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 Black Hill (North Lanarkshire, Scotland) mast?
Black Hill transmitter - Black Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 11/11/2024 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.
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 Black Hill 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 Black Hill transmitter?
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 26km west (271°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
STV News 1.3m homes 4.8%
from Glasgow G51 1PQ, 26km west (271°)
to STV Central (Glasgow) region - 94 masts.
Are there any self-help relays?
| Ardtornish A | Transposer | 22 km NW Oban | 15 homes |
| Balquhidder | Transposer | 12 km NW Callander | 42 homes |
| Benmore B | Active deflector | 50 m WNW Glasgow | 7 homes |
| Blair Drummond | Transposer | 5 homes caravan park | |
| Blyth Bridge | Active deflector | 30 km SW Edinburgh | 50 homes |
| Glendaruel | Active deflector | 40 hotel | 40 homes hotel |
| Glendaruel B | Active deflector | 12 homes (second level) |
How will the Black Hill (North Lanarkshire, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1957-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 3 Oct 2018 | ||||
| VHF | B E T | B E T | B E T | E T | W T | ||||
| C10 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C30 | _local | ||||||||
| C32 | com7 | ||||||||
| C35 | com8 | ||||||||
| C37 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C40 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C41 | +SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C43 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C44 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C46 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C47 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C50tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C51tv_off | LG | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | _local | 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 8 Jun 11 and 22 Jun 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-5 | 500kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 100kW | |
| com7 | (-10.7dB) 42.9kW | |
| com8 | (-11.1dB) 39.2kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-14dB) 20kW | |
| LG | (-20dB) 5kW |
Local transmitter maps
Black Hill Freeview Black Hill DAB Black Hill TV region BBC Scotland STV Central (Glasgow micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Black Hill transmitter area
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Saturday, 15 January 2011
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David Sharp9:18 PM
Motherwell
I wonder if we have worked it out as they say, possible due to very low power and directionality, unless you have a good aerial, clean line and are on a N/E/S/W axis you'll struggle to get a signal?
Only need to find some on an oblique direction to confirm they can receive to blow the theory!
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andrew12109:25 PM
OK, let's put out a call for everyone in direct N,S,E or W of Blackhill, get up on your roof with a compass so we can find out why we can't get HD!
As they say, If something's worth doing, do it yourself!
Hope this is confirmed and I can have increased hope of HD by July
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KMJ,Derby11:10 PM
andrew1210: The high power HD mux begins on 22nd June 2011 on C40.As with the other muxes it will be transmitted with a power of 100kW which is 10 times the power of the temporary service on C59.
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Sunday, 16 January 2011
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Scott5:37 PM
David. Following the experience of Nigel in the Archers I am reluctant to go on to the roof. I am very confident that my aerial must be pointing pretty much due east as I am at the west end of Glasgow and the transmitter is half way to Edinburgh.
As others have said, it's only five months to wait so it may be worth simply waiting to see if it is sorted out with DSO. With a bit of luck they might even start transmitting from the new mast in advance of the formal switchover.
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David Sharp7:00 PM
Motherwell
Hi Scott, Oh god please DON'T go onto the roof, was only on the off chance it was easily accessible.
I managed to get access to my brother's aerial (he lives in Yorkhill in WE)
It is bang on pointing East, and I am thinking that is the answer.
Cheers
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Monday, 17 January 2011
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ian9:04 PM
blackhill hd freeview works fine in alloa on sony kdl 403, 4% lower strength than freeview though
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Steve9:56 PM
Dunblane
I have just purchased a new HD PVR. I can get all of the HD Channels but for some strange reason I can't get ITV2 and STV+1 (I can hear them but the sound cuts out a lot but no picture). Strange is I can get STV and ITV2+1. I see that MUX 2 is down as low rating. Could this have something to do with it? I tried the HD PVR in on another TV in another room and it the issue with STV+1/ITV2 is still there. I have checked the signal strength of these two channels and they don't seem any less than channels that are ok.
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Tuesday, 18 January 2011
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Steve8:15 PM
Briantist.
FYI There are 4 people who have the same PVR and have the same problem and we are all receiving our signal from Black Hill. I am have not tried the solution you provided but I have done a firmware upgrade which is the equivalent of a factory reset and it rescans all the channels again since they do not exist.
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David Sharp9:01 PM
Motherwell
Well Blow my socks off, randomly tried to tune channel 59 during an advert break....and what do you know?
All 4 HD channels popped up!!!
Talk about random!
BBC HD signal quality 47, signal stength 26
BBC1 HD signal quality 47, signal stength 26
STV HD signal quality 47, signal stength 26
C4 HD signal quality 47, signal stength 26
These figures would make sense based on the low 10kW broadcast power, i'm hoping it not just a fluke due to the calm and clear weather.
A happy David
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