Full Freeview on the Rosemarkie (Highland, Scotland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Rosemarkie (Highland, Scotland) transmitter which serves 63,000 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 Rosemarkie (Highland, 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Rosemarkie (Highland, Scotland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
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 Freeview channels does the Rosemarkie 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Rosemarkie (Highland, Scotland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
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 Rosemarkie transmitter?
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 198km south (186°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
STV News 0.4m homes 1.5%
from Aberdeen AB12 3QH, 132km east-southeast (116°)
to STV North (Aberdeen) region - 76 masts.
Are there any self-help relays?
| Bhlaraidh | Active deflector | 40 km SW Inverness | 5 homes |
| Culloden | Transposer | 10 km E Inverness | 25 homes Caravan site |
| U.strthnairn A | Active deflector | 20 km S Inverness | 25 homes |
| Upper Foyers | Active deflector | Upper Foyers | 42 homes |
How will the Rosemarkie (Highland, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2010 | 2010-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 6 Sep 2017 | ||
| VHF | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | ||
| C2 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C39 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | +D3+4 | +D3+4 | D3+4 | |||
| C40 | +ArqB | +ArqB | ArqB | ||||||
| C42 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | ||
| C43 | SDN | SDN | SDN | SDN | |||||
| C45 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | ||
| C46 | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | |||||
| C49tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | +D3+4 | |||||
| C50tv_off | +ArqB | ||||||||
| C52tv_off | _local | _local | _local | _local |
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 6 Oct 10 and 20 Oct 10.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 100kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 10kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-11dB) 8kW |
Local transmitter maps
Rosemarkie Freeview Rosemarkie TV region BBC Scotland STV North (Aberdeen micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Rosemarkie transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldThursday, 4 August 2011
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Brian7:44 PM
I live in Muir of ord & get freeview signal from the Auchmore Wood relay, do you know if it will ever transmit all the available channels that Rosemarkie broadcasts? At the moment it's only about 15 tv while rosemarkie is broadcasting something like 50+
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Brian: No, the commercial multiplex operators declined to broadcast from any of the smaller transmitters as they regard it as too expensive. If you want more channels, and you can use a "Full Service" transmitter, try Freesat - see Compare Freeview Light and Freesat TV | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Brian10:09 PM
Cheers for the reply,
problem is the neighbours got tall pine trees blocking sky/freesat & we don't have a line of sight to Rosemarkie as we're in a dip.
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Sunday, 7 August 2011
Brian: In that case, I think your options are limited. You might be able to site a dish somewhere, see Householder guide to satellite dishes | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Wednesday, 11 July 2012
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Chas6:34 PM
I have had perfect reception on all Freeview channels for some time on all 4 freeview boxes (built in to 2 Panasonic Plasma TVs and 2 Panasonic video recorders).
Suddenly today I started to get poor reception on Channel 15 (film 4). I switched to other programs to check them and found that all of the Multiplex channel 50 programs were affected. The reception got so bad that I lost these channels altogether for some time and was getting "invalid DVB channel" when trying to get them.
I tried retuning several times on one of my TVs but it made no difference. Eventually I began to receive a picture on these channels again on all 4 of my boxes even though I had just been trying to reune one of them.
All other programs have remained perfect throughout though when checking signal quality and strength I find that all multiplex channel 50 programs are less than perfect.
When I check with Rosemarkie I find that there have been no issues there today and that the channel 50 multiplex signal from there is "above average". I'm finding that difficult to believe. Can you explain what was going on today?
Regards, Chas.
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Chas6:38 PM
Inverness
Sorry. I should have said that I have a relatively new aerial - roof mounted - and my post code is IV2 4LB.
Chas.
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Chas's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
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M. Partington9:45 PM
When D3+4 is transferred from C49 to C39+ and Arq B from C50 to C40+, will it be possible to tune in with a digital decoder which only can be searched in whole no. UHF channels without the + offset
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M. Partington: Yes. For C39+, for example, just specifying C39 will tune it.
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Monday, 12 November 2012
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Mairi Maciver8:36 PM
I have just bought a new car 2 months ago and the radio reception in and around Inverness is terrible, with a continuous background crackling. Is there some problem with radio reception in Highland. If yes, can you suggest a solution?
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Tuesday, 4 December 2012
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Paul Warrener9:12 AM
Forres
How Long are the rosemarkie transmitter engineering works going to continue?
The information mentions 2nd December engineering information but it is flagged up 3rd Dec and now 4th Dec. I can confirm poor reception or non existence/low signal strength on the PSB1 set on 4th DEC.
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Paul's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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