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The symbol shows the location of the Angus (Dundee City, Scotland) transmitter which serves 130,000 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 Angus (Dundee City, Scotland) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Angus 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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 H max
C39- (617.8MHz)546mDTG-20,000W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) Scotland, 2 BBC Two Scotland, 7 BBC Alba HD, 23 BBC Three, 24 BBC Four (Scotland SD), 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 13 others

PSB2
D3+4
 H max
C42 (642.0MHz)546mDTG-20,000W
Channel icons
3 STV (SD) (STV North (Dundee micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) Scotland ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 Scotland ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (STV Edinburgh), 35 STV+1 (STV Edinburgh), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 H max
C45 (666.0MHz)546mDTG-20,000W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Scotland, 102 BBC Two HD Scotland, 103 ITV 1 HD (STV West), 103 STV HD (STV West), 104 Channel 4 HD Scotland ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 108 BBC Scotland HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

COM4
SDN
 H -3dB
C33 (570.0MHz)546mDTG-810,000W
Channel icons
20 U&Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 U&Dave ja vu, 58 ITV3 +1, 59 ITV4 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 91 WildEarth, 93 ITVBe +1, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 251 Al Jazeera English, 255 FRANCE 24 (in English), 265 Rok Sky +1, plus 29 others

COM5
ArqA
 H -3dB
C36 (594.0MHz)546mDTG-810,000W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 U&Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 U&Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 &UYesterday +1, 76 That's TV 2 MCR, 233 Sky News, plus 13 others

COM6
ArqB
 H -3dB
C48 (690.0MHz)546mDTG-810,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 U&W, 27 U&Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 63 GREAT! romance mix, 73 HobbyMaker, 75 That's 90s, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

DTG-8 64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Angus transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 112km southwest (228°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
regional news image
STV News 0.2m homes 0.8%
from Dundee DD1 4QB, 11km south (177°)
to STV North (Dundee) region - 24 masts.

Are there any self-help relays?

Glen Cova AActive deflector40 km N of Dundee
Glen Cova BActive deflector

How will the Angus (Dundee City, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?

1965-80s1984-971997-981998-20102010-132013-182013-1727 Nov 2019
VHFC/D EC/D EC/D EC/D EC/D E TW TW T
C11ITVwaves
C31com7com7
C33SDN
C34_local
C36ArqA
C37com8com8
C39BBCA
C42D3+4
C45BBCB
C48_local_local_localArqB
C49tv_off ArqBArqB
C53tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4wavesD3+4D3+4D3+4
C54tv_offSDNSDNSDN
C55tv_offcom7tv_off
C56tv_offCOM8tv_off
C57tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBCBBBCBBBCB
C58tv_offArqAArqAArqA
C60tv_offITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves -BBCA-BBCA
C61ArqB
C63BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves

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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 4 Aug 10 and 18 Aug 10.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

BBCA, D3+4, BBCB 20kW
SDN, ARQA, ARQB(-3dB) 10kW
com7(-6dB) 5kW
com8(-6.1dB) 4.9kW
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*(-7dB) 4kW
Mux C*, Mux D*(-10dB) 2kW
Analogue 1-4(-23dB) 100W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Angus transmitter area

Sep 1961-Jun 1997Grampian Television
Jun 1997-Dec 2014STV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

Radiation patterns withheld

Comments
Saturday, 6 August 2011
Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

7:58 PM

Tam Whitelaw: Try looking in the 800-899 (usually 803) channel number range for an alternative STV.

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Friday, 23 September 2011
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Stuart
12:23 PM

Regarding the North and Tayside opts, you get one or the other on channel 3, but the other NEVER shows up separately in the 800's.

Easiest way to get the Angus signal is to pull the aerial out and start a scan, plug the aerial in just before it gets to UHF channel 53 or about 2/3s of the way through. :-)

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Stuart's 17 posts GB flag
Wednesday, 28 September 2011
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Stuart
9:10 AM

Sorry I was incorrect above, some receivers do allow both to be present, others don't. My LG TV does, my Vestel-based PVR doesn't.

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Friday, 21 October 2011
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keith
8:45 PM

is there any particular reason why i should receive only some channels and not others on certain muxes? e.g. receive COM6(arqB)on UHF61 and am missing 'yesterday' and 'flim4', while i can get '4music', 'VIVA' and others. likewise with COM4(SDN) on UHF54 i am missing '5*' and '5USA' but still get 'ITV3' 'QUEST' and others. i have rescanned the UHF channels manually but to no avail.

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jb38
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

9:36 PM

keith: I realise you have already re-scanned etc, but have you carried out a factory re-set before carrying out a further re-scanning operation? (factory reset called default condition on some sets)


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jb38's 7,179 posts GB flag
Saturday, 22 October 2011
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keith
9:47 AM
Kirkcaldy

jb38, just did a first time install and all programmes are now there, many thanks for your help! i found it a bit odd to be receiving some programmes and not others, if a whole mux was missing then i'd have been ok. thanks again for your help

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jb38
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

12:39 PM

keith: Thanks for the update and pleased to hear all is OK now. Yes, its always best to start afresh by getting rid of any stored data that may have got corrupted during a previous procedure, because as you say it can be a bit mystifying to have programme channels missing when its known that they are all on the same multiplex.

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Sunday, 23 October 2011
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David Wall
5:03 PM
Newport-on-tay

Do you have any explanation why the Angus transmitter is transmitting at 20 megawatts for the BBC channels and 10 megawatts for some of the ITV channels? Where we used to live in Sutton Coldfield, the local Sutton Coldfield transmitter is now digital and is putting out all TV channels on 200 megawatts (if I have interpreted the information correctly). So here we are at one tenth the power for the BBC channels and one twentieth the power for others.

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jb38
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

7:20 PM

David Wall: Well the difference is basically due to the coverage area involved Vs the homes that exist between the two areas you mentioned, with Sutton Coldfield serving approximately 1.870.000 homes, whereas with Angus its only 130.000, the purely commercial interests that use these Mux's not being willing to pay the substantially higher running costs of operating a high powered multiplex due to the much lower level of estimated return that's liable to be made.

(i.e: Unlike the BBC etc aimed at providing a public service, these Mux's are purely a business venture) 

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Wednesday, 2 November 2011
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Stuart
2:03 PM

David Wall: You could argue that transmitters that serve major population areas are over-powered, it goes back to when the first TV transmitters were established, they were designed to cover the largest area possible with one mast, and with 405-line VHF signals they covered the country quite well. UHF signals don't travel so well and more transmitters were needed. Angus is really just a fill-in between Durris and Black Hill.

I never thought about the Watts per viewer argument, but it seems to make sense.

Another way to look at it: if 10kW can cover 95% (say) of viewers and 20kW can cover 99%, that's twice the cost to reach 4% more people, not worth it in commercial terms.

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