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Freeview Light on the Arrochar (West Dunbartonshire, Scotland) transmitter

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The symbol shows the location of the Arrochar (West Dunbartonshire, Scotland) transmitter which serves less than 500 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 Arrochar (West Dunbartonshire, Scotland) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Arrochar 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
 V max
C27 (522.0MHz)122mDTG-2W
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
 V max
C24 (498.0MHz)122mDTG-2W
Channel icons
3 STV (SD) (STV Central (Glasgow 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
 V max
C21+ (474.2MHz)122mDTG-2W
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

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels

The Arrochar (West Dunbartonshire, Scotland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.

If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.

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

regional news image
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 48km southeast (144°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
regional news image
STV News 1.3m homes 4.8%
from Glasgow G51 1PQ, 49km southeast (144°)
to STV Central (Glasgow) region - 94 masts.

How will the Arrochar (West Dunbartonshire, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20112011-1330 Sep 2018-
A K TA K TA K TA K TA K T
C21BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves+BBCBBBCB
C24ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C27BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCA
C31C4wavesC4wavesC4waves

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 11 May 11 and 25 May 11.

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

Analogue 1-4 6W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-4.8dB) 2W

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

Aug 1957-Jun 1997Scottish 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. Arrochar was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Comments
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
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Sally Black
10:06 PM
Alexandria

Can you recommend the best type of aerial for G83 7AA. We are actually right between the mountains and it has always been a bad reception area. The aerial will be mounted on a static caravan,

Many thanks

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Thursday, 7 April 2011
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Mike Dimmick
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7:01 AM

Sally Black: Your only real option is this relay, which is slightly north of due west from you (282°). It requires the aerial to be polarized vertically - with the rods going up-and-down, not side-to-side.

It currently transmits analogue signals and will switch to digital starting in five weeks (11 May). If you can get a reasonably clear analogue picture now you should get good results from digital. Don't worry too much about ghosting, digital handles that better.

While it's low power, you are pretty close. My guess is that something like a 40-element log periodic could give good results - see Online TV FM DAB Aerial sales . (RG47SH)

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Friday, 3 June 2011
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Bill Thompson
4:54 PM
Alexandria

hello.

The Arrochar transmitter has recently been switched to digital. I must say that I am very disappointed in the selection of channels that the commercial companies have put on the air. Are there any other radio channels except the BBC ones? I cannot find any mention of additional channels anywhere on the 'net'

Perhaps my aerial needs adjusting.

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Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

6:11 PM

Bill Thompson: Sorry, but you are only able to get the "Freeview Light" service using an aerial, because of your location.

If you want more channels, you will need to use Freesat - see Compare Freeview and Freesat TV | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice and All about Freesat | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .

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Briantist's 38,915 posts GB flag
Sunday, 25 December 2011
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Howard Page
4:57 PM

When can we expect DAB radio transmissions in Arrochar?

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Monday, 16 January 2012
Monday, 12 March 2012
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Steven Naismith
10:50 AM

Why is there so much engineering works going on with this transmitter? seems to be near constant reduced quality since before xmas.
Is it being upgraded to provide all the freeview channels that the rest of the country recieves? or is it just old and knackered?

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Dave Lindsay
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10:59 AM

Steven Naismith: I can't offer you an explanation as to why there might be frequent engineering works at Arrochar, but I can tell you that it won't be likely to be getting any more (Commercial) channels. This is because the Commercial operators decide where to broadcast from and operated on a commercial (profit) basis. See here for an explanation:

Will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice

Your only way to get extra free-to-air channels is probably Freesat.

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Sunday, 13 January 2013
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Robert Webb
6:13 PM

Transmitter engineering: BBC Channels of the Chiseldon relay are intermittently breaking up. My theory is a frequency clash
from "Ridge Hill" (chan 27) Two customers now same problem. Rob "Complete Aerial Service" Swindon.

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Michael
sentiment_satisfiedGold

6:46 PM

Robert Webb: You realised you have posted your comment on a page for a transmitter in Scotland?

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