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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Thursday, 16 June 2011
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Graham Ellery8:21 AM
Anstruther
Picked this up on the net. I had perfect freeview preswitch but 1st June and now 15th June a number of channels dropped of. This may be reason looks like Craigkelly users getting a duff deal.
"The transmitter was originally an A group but has become a K group (or wideband) with the advent of Channel Five and Digital. Craigkelly is one of the few main transmitters which will not be returning to its original group at DSO. In fact after the switchover even less of its Digital output will be receivable on an A group aerial than is the case now, see Ofcom transmitter details".
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Graham Ellery8:24 AM
Anstruther
Ordered my new aerial then spotted this.
Looks like the transmitter operators/some multiplex operators are downgrading power and hence service. Only guessing but could it be to use more of the transmitter and bandwidth for lucrative phone , £D telly and pay for view channels???. Otherwise why would they not boost the power to levels where everyone gets their multiplexes.
"Restrictions on SDN, Arqiva A and Arqiva B multiplexes
There are no restrictions on the "commercial multiplexes" on the Craigkelly transmitter - however they will broadcast at 10kW, half of the power of the public service multiplexes and may be unavailable to those on the fringes of the reception area".
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Edin9:38 AM
Duddingston in Edinburgh situation as follows
All freeview channels from Blackhill are
available from that transmitter in its
current state.From Craigkelly I can only
get PSB1 BBCA C27 (522.0MHz),
and PSB2 D3+4 C24 (498.0MHz),
not available are
PSB3 BBCB C21+ (474.2MHz)
COM4 SDN C42 (642.0MHz)
COM6 ArqB C45 (666.0MHz)
looks like the transmitter is just not
putting out enough power on all its
Mux so all of them can be received in EH14
what a shame.I would suggest waiting for
Blackhill to complete its switchover.
My unit is AVerTV Volar Black HD A850
if it was not compatible with any HD
channels it would still pick them up but
would show a black screen with no picture.
when tuned to that HD channel
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KMJ,Derby9:43 AM
Graham Ellery: The problem is Craigkelly overlaps coverage with Durris to the North and Darvel to the West. All three transmitters have the PSB muxes in group A as were the original analogue services. Darvel and Durris now use C22, C25 & C28 for PSB muxes and C23, C26 & C29 for the COM muxes. The Black Hill and Craigkelly service areas sit between the areas served by the Darvel and Durris transmitters. If Craigkelly had used the same group A frequencies for the COM muxes there would have been problems for fringe area viewers in the overlap areas for all three transmitters. Durris incidentally could not continue to use the temporary frequencies that the COM muxes had "borrowed" as these will be used at high power from Black Hill from DSO stage 2. With regard to the power of the COM muxes, it is the case that these are transmitted at half the power of the PSB muxes at most sites. Only the biggest main stations (Black Hill in Scotland) and some former relay sites use the same power for all muxes.
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Speug9:59 AM
Edinburgh
In EH4 area and receiving strong signals from my loft aerial from Craigkelly on channels 21(HD),24 27, 39,42 & 45 and appear not to be missing any channels on my Sony HD tuner TV and 1 other TV.
However in the notes from 15 June 2011 you say that NEW7 starts on C52 and NEW8 starts on C30.
What are these channels and when will they be active ?
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KMJ,Derby11:28 AM
Graeme: Craigkelly is completely independent of Black Hill and is transmitting the full service since DSO step2 completed. Did you do a factory reset to clear the channel list before scanning for channels? Try a manual tune for each of the frequencies for the COM muxes, your receiver might be overlooking them due to the signal strength being less than that on the PSB muxes.
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KevF1:45 PM
EH33, Roof aerial
After rescanning 15th June, I found I had lost ARQA and ARQB channels. This was on the freeview tuner in tv. I also have BT Vision, and that picked up all channels ok. Strange, as being a twin tuner, I believe that this should be worse, not better than the single tuner. TV is a Philips, 6 years old. Previously I had to use an amp to boost the signal. Pleased to say that this is now off (can't get BBC with it on), and no picture breakup whatsoever, which was a major issue before DSO. Happy days.
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Mike Dimmick3:21 PM
Speug: Brian went to a lot of effort to add those and is now being stubborn about removing them.
In short, they are wrong. They only ever appeared in an appendix to an Ofcom consultation about what to do with 'interleaved' spectrum, possible frequencies that could possibly made available, to cover a limited part of the transmitter's coverage area.
There has been no auction to licence these frequencies, and there is no date set for any auction. They might form part of the Culture Secretary's pet Local TV project, but that seems to be mired in disagreements over the scope. Even if local TV does get off the ground, it might not use the frequencies shown, as it may be better to use other frequencies for the job (for example, the Channel M multiplex in Manchester was actually allocated C56 where 'NEW7' was shown as C57).
To sum up, you're not missing anything now and you're not that likely to get anything in future.
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Graeme3:57 PM
KMJ,Derby: Yes I've done a full factory reset on both my TVs. Done manual tune on the relevant channels. _Zero_ power is reported.
This is odd. Even the reported 10kW power on the upper 3 mux's is far greater than it was pre DSO (when I received 39,42 OK).
I sense there is more to this that we are being told.
I see a few more similar reports on here now.
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