Freeview Light on the Minnigaff (Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Minnigaff (Dumfries and Galloway, 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 Minnigaff (Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Minnigaff (Dumfries and Galloway, 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 Freeview channels does the Minnigaff 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.
| Mux | H/V | Frequency | Height | Mode | Watts |
| PSB1 BBCA | V max | C26 (514.0MHz) | 66m | DTG- | 2W |
 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 | C29 (538.0MHz) | 66m | DTG- | 2W |
 3 STV (SD) (Border (Scotland)), 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 (Yorkshire Emley Moor), 35 STV+1 (Yorkshire Emley Moor), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C23 (490.0MHz) | 66m | DTG- | 2W |
 46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Scotland, 102 BBC Two HD Scotland, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Granada), 103 STV HD (ITV Granada), 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 | |||||
Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?
The Minnigaff (Dumfries and Galloway, 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 Minnigaff transmitter?
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 100km north (9°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
ITV Lookaround 0.1m homes 0.4%
from Carlisle CA1 3NT, 102km east (96°)
to ITV Border Scotland region - 27 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with Tyne Tees
How will the Minnigaff (Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 30 Sep 2019- | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | |||||
| C23 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C26 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C29 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C33 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves |
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 24 Jun 09 and 22 Jul 09.
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 Caldbeck Scotland transmitter area
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Monday, 10 October 2011
Chris Welton
11:14 PM
Newton Stewart
11:14 PM
Newton Stewart
I have a question about the minimum number of channels available from Freeview which are seen at DG8 6PX.
My antenna is mounted on the roof (chimney) and is pointed to Cambret.
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Chris's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
J
jb387:30 AM
Chris Welton: Both the Minigaff and Cambret Hill which serve the area are Freeview "Light" 3 multiplex stations, whereby only PSB (public services) programmes are broadcast.
The reason for this being, that the commercial interests were not willing to pay towards the running costs of additional multiplexs because the coverage / area population was not considered large enough for the returns made.
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Chris Welton
5:20 PM
Newton Stewart
5:20 PM
Newton Stewart
Chris Welton:
Thank you for clearing that up. What a rip-off ! Glad you told me before I had the antenna upgraded.
Fortunately I have Freesat on a box (Freeview is built-in on the Sony Bravia). The only real problem is not being able to record from the Freesat side through to the attached external hard-drive.
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Chris's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
J
jb388:38 PM
Chris Welton: Yes, not having any choice other than the PSB multiplexes cuts out quite a range of programmes, as Freeview has a number of channels (e.g: Quest etc) that isn't duplicated on Freesat, and although Sky does have them its as part of a package and not "Free to view".
Just out of curiosity what model of Freesat box are you referring to? and when you say "through to the attached external hard drive", is this being said connected to what you actually have, or is it just a thought? as a Freesat twin tuner PVR is the ideal choice for situations such as yours.
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Wednesday, 9 November 2011
To jb38
The Freesat box is a Grundig GUFSAT02SD and the external HD is attached to the Sony usb port. I have recorded a film from a Freeview program and as can be seen from the Grundig box model, it has only one scart connection. (54.9667,-4.4833)
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Saturday, 23 February 2013
Chris Welton
4:10 PM
4:10 PM
Very irritating problem with subtitling on several channels. Frequently held up then there will be a rush of them.
Is this a failure of my Grundig box or station broadcast?
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Tuesday, 8 October 2024
Transmitter engineering
2:20 PM
2:20 PM
MINNIGAFF transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to essential engineering from 8 Oct 10:34 until 8 Oct 10:42. Off the air due to a fault from 7 Oct 13:59 until 7 Oct 14:17. . [BBC]
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Thursday, 10 October 2024
Transmitter engineering
5:20 PM
5:20 PM
MINNIGAFF transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to a fault from 10 Oct 15:31. Off the air due to essential engineering from 8 Oct 10:34 until 8 Oct 10:42. Off the air due to a fault from 7 Oct 13:59 until 7 Oct 14:17. . [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
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8:20 PM
MINNIGAFF transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to a fault from 10 Oct 15:31 until 10 Oct 16:00. Off the air due to essential engineering from 8 Oct 10:34 until 8 Oct 10:42. Off the air due to a fault from 7 Oct 13:59 until 7 Oct 14:17. . [BBC]
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Saturday, 12 October 2024
Transmitter engineering
5:20 PM
5:20 PM
MINNIGAFF transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to a fault from 10 Oct 15:31 until 10 Oct 16:00. Off the air due to essential engineering from 8 Oct 10:34 until 8 Oct 10:42. . [BBC]
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