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, 22 June 2011
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Colin Brown9:55 PM
re my previous posts .. I have had to relent and now have good reception on all MUXs from my shiny new wideband aerial. Unfortunately the decision at DSO to have Craigkelly as one of only about 5% of transmitters to be wideband has cost me over £100 - not quite a simple retune eh? I wonder what the total cost of this decision is to folks in Edinburgh. Lucky you folks on Blackhill etc.
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Thursday, 23 June 2011
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Jean Clark7:01 PM
Since Monday 20 June when I set my VCR to record I am only getting an onscreen message "software download in progress" it showws a progress bar about 50% complete. I did not set vcr on Tuesday night as I assumed my freeview box was trying to update but failing to do so. However i still got the message today. My vcr is set to start taping at 10.30am but tonight it won't let me set the timer because the message is still appearing on the screen.
I have an asda freeview box and an analogue tv and vcr.
Craigkelly transmitter.
I managed to record after the 15th but not since 20th June,
Please help.
(56.2088,-3.4319)
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Friday, 24 June 2011
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Stuart2:09 PM
Mike (1): In my experience Panasonic DTT equipment can have an unsatisfactory tuning routine. I've had a Panasonic Freeview box and DVD Recorder, and I've heard from others with Panasonic TVs.
This equipment finds a multiplex from a distant transmitter during the early part of the channel scan and then ignores the identical multiplex from your desired transmitter.
So it's quite likely that you are getting Durris multiplexes in place of Craigkelly.
One answer to the problem is an attenuator to weaken the signal to the point where unwanted signals are not detected but the wanted signals are still powerful enough. After a scan you can remove the attenuator if necessary. If you don't have an attenuator any way of weakening the signal would do.
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Aaron4:35 PM
(I am in Leith, EH6)
An update on my previous post about only getting the BBC channels, STV, 4 + Five since DSO.
I had the aerial guys round today to look at our communal aerial. Apparently we only had a 'grouped aerial' so they replaced it with a wideband. This has sorted the problem and now get all channels but we still get a week signal so we might loose channels in bad weather. The cabling and junction box all needs replacing apparently......this could cost a lot of money all due to this DSO.
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Saturday, 25 June 2011
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Jack9:38 AM
Balerno
I'm in EH14 and get my Freeview through a DVD recorder. It now seems I'm ony getting ITV3, Quest, 5*, 5USA etc on alternate days. Tuesday and Thursday perfect picture. Wednesday and this morning, "no signal". I did wonder if I've got too stong or too weak signal but how could either be the answer when I'm getting these channels intermittently? Anyone got any ideas?
Just wait until DSO hits London. We'll never hear the end of it!
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Tuesday, 12 July 2011
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Bruce7:42 PM
As an update at my end, the CH39 reception that had improved in late June has now reverted to being unwatchable. There have been no adverse weather or climatic conditions that could be influencing this that I can imagine.
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Sunday, 17 July 2011
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Bruce7:26 PM
Thanks very much for the link. I had no idea about things like games consoles, recorders etc causing interference. I shall investigate!
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Monday, 1 August 2011
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Chris12:42 PM
Re my post on 15th June. Craigkelly's PSB2 channel no longer has the 'full stop' after Central Scotland. My TVonics MDR 251 STB now tunes in correctly with all the stations in the correct order. Mike - TVonics 'help' was less than useful. All channels give good signal with 42 and 45 slightly lower than the rest at about 95% indicated on the green bar. Reception area Pencaitland Aerial Televes DAT45 with MRD.
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Tuesday, 2 August 2011
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