Full Freeview on the Craigkelly (Fife, Scotland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Craigkelly (Fife, Scotland) transmitter which serves 430,000 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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Craigkelly (Fife, Scotland) transmitter._______
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 Craigkelly 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 Craigkelly transmitter?
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 70km west-southwest (252°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
STV News 0.5m homes 1.7%
from Edinburgh EH3 9QG, 14km south (174°)
to STV Central (Edinburgh) region - 8 masts.
Are there any self-help relays?
| Dullatur | Transposer | 20 km NE Glasgow | 40 homes |
| Edinburgh | Transposer | Sighthill area | 167 homes |
How will the Craigkelly (Fife, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 3 Oct 2018 | |||||
| A K T | K T | K T | K T | W T | |||||
| C21 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C24 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C27 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C29 | SDN | ||||||||
| C30 | LEH | ||||||||
| C31 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ArqA | |||||
| C32 | _local | ||||||||
| C33 | com7 | ||||||||
| C34 | com8 | ||||||||
| C37 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C39 | +ArqB | ||||||||
| C42 | SDN | ||||||||
| C45 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C48 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| 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 1 Jun 11 and 15 Jun 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 100kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
| com7, com8 | (-9.7dB) 10.8kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 10kW | |
| LEH | (-13dB) 5kW | |
| Analogue 5, Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-14dB) 4kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 2kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Craigkelly transmitter area
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Wednesday, 1 June 2011
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Stephen Massie10:55 AM
As of today June 1 I can no longer receive BBC programmes, especially BBC1 and BBC2. I understand that they were transmitted on C33 and should now be transmitted on C27. On my Toshiba TV it detects no signals on C33 OR C27.
Toshiba itself is no help (number discontinued) on their website. We use the Craigkelly transmitter. I have retuned umpteen times including a factory reset and a manual retune and can receive every other station (including many I do not want) but not the BBC ones.
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KMJ,Derby12:20 PM
Stephen Massie: Check that your receiver is not on the list of equipment that does not support the 8k mode. If it is listed you will need to use a freeview box to receive post switchover channels. If you have amplification on your signal it might now be too strong on C27. Reducing the gain, removing the amplifier or using an attenuator would offer solutions in this case.
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Robert8:16 PM
Lost all BBC channels since yesterday evening. Both digital televisions.
What do I do?
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Thursday, 2 June 2011
Robert: You must do a "first time installation" now, due to the first stage of switchover, and do the same on Wednesday 15th June 2011.
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glb3712:29 PM
Hi agai, I've done a complete reinstall, done a full slow scan, and BBC1, BBC2, and BBC 24 hours news do not exist for detection now. Please can you help?
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John Riddick12:46 PM
After retuning (reset),I am receiving poor or interrupted, sometime zero, services from STV and channel 4. All BBC programmes are received well. After 15th June retune, will the signal levels for STV and Channel 4 improve?
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glb371:36 PM
Hi Briantist, it's a pci card which slots inside my computer - it's a Compro T750. BBC1, 2 and alot of the day on a few days ago BBC 24 hours news were all getting good reception 2 or 3 days ago. So I'm wondering if either I'm not getting the same sort of reception, or something technical has happened.
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Friday, 3 June 2011
glb37: I can't recall a PCI card that doesn't support the 8k transmission mode.
Perhaps your signal is now too strong. If you have an amplifier, try removing it.
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glb3711:41 AM
Longniddry
Hi, yes, this pci card is compatable with 8k mode.
With a free different software I get BBC now. But with the original Compro software strangely it does not find BBC. It did 3 days ago fine and stable for a long time. I even reinstalled Compro totally and restarted, but BBC is not available.
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