Full Freeview on the Selkirk (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Selkirk (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmitter which serves 24,000 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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Selkirk (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) mast?
Selkirk transmitter - Selkirk transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 11/11/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels 
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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 Selkirk (The Scottish Borders, 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 Selkirk 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 Selkirk (The Scottish Borders, 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 Selkirk transmitter?
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 100km west-northwest (291°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
ITV Lookaround 0.1m homes 0.4%
from Carlisle CA1 3NT, 75km south (187°)
to ITV Border Scotland region - 27 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with Tyne Tees
Are there any self-help relays?
| Sourhope | Active deflector | Nr Yetholm | 6 homes |
How will the Selkirk (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1961-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2008 | 2008-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 14 Aug 2019 | ||
| VHF | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | C/D E T | K T | ||
| C13 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C32 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C33 | SDN | ||||||||
| C34 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C35 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C36 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C48 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | BBCA | BBCA | |||||||
| C52tv_off | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C53tv_off | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ||||||
| C55tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||
| C57tv_off | SDN | SDN | SDN | ||||||
| C59tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | |||
| C60tv_off | -ArqB | -ArqB | |||||||
| C62 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | |||||
| C65 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 Nov 08 and 20 Nov 08.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-5 | 50kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 10kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 5kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-12.2dB) 3kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-20dB) 500W |
Local transmitter maps
Selkirk Freeview Selkirk DAB Selkirk AM/FM Selkirk TV region BBC Scotland Border (Scotland)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Selkirk transmitter area
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Monday, 29 October 2012
Rod: Confirm that your receiver is tuned to the Selkirk transmitter for ITV channels. The other transmitter that it might have tuned to at your location is Chatton, although this broadcasts ITV Tyne Tees instead.
Bring up the signal strength screen whilst on ITV1 and see whether it is tuned to UHF channel 59 which that of Selkirk or channel 42 which that of Chatton.
If it turns out that it is tuned to Chatton, then run the automatic tuning scan through with the aerial unplugged up until 55% (or until it gets past C47 if it gives channel numbers during the scan). This will have the aerial unplugged whilst it scans channels used by Chatton, but plugged in for those of Selkirk. If there is a setting in the menu something to the effect of "automatic channel update", then you may benefit from turning this off if it does a retune when unattended as a result of this being turned on. If there is no such setting, then you will have to hope that it isn't one of those devices that retunes when it feels like it, leaving the user with the incorrect channels.
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Wednesday, 31 October 2012
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Rod Gray8:13 AM
Berwick-upon-tweed
Yes, tuned to Selkirk and shows high signal strength on those muxes
Chatton stations tuned in the 800 range
Auto updates turned off
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Tuesday, 6 November 2012
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Rod Gray4:09 PM
Berwick-upon-tweed
The engineering work at Selkirk now appears to be finished and the ITV epg has returned to normal. I can only assume there was a problem with it that has now been corrected
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Monday, 19 August 2013
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W Douglas6:44 PM
Hawick
We are served by the Selkirk transmitter and over the past few months have experienced intermittent reception.We frequently have to reset freeview as get message that no reception. Today we are getting no signal and on checking website for transmitter problems Selkirk is not mentioned but on checking on Selkirk page there is a message saying that some people may experience problems for next week. What is going on?
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Wednesday, 21 August 2013
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W Douglas3:43 PM
Hawick
There is a message posted on 18th Aug clearly saying that there will be Transmitter Engineering on Selkirk Transmitter and there may be interuptions to TV digital signal and yet no mention on any other sites of this problem. Surely these sites should automatically be informed of this. From the postings it seems that there has been a lot of work carried out over past 6 months which could explain our reception problems.
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Thursday, 22 August 2013
W Douglas: The information came from, and can be also seen on, the
Digital UK - Planned Engineering Works page.
The notice has now been cleared as the work has been done.
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Saturday, 20 December 2014
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iain scott4:41 PM
Kelso
since latest retune in the Scottish borders I am unable to access BBC1HD, BBC2HD, ITV1HD or CHANNEL4HD. can anyone shed light on this. I have a full HD LGTV
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MikeB5:14 PM
iain scott: Just guessing, but its likely your not tuned into Selkirk, but Calbeck. Have a look at the Digital UK link. Selkirk is on Channel 50, whilst Calbeck is 25-27. Tuners often start on the low numbers...
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Sunday, 21 December 2014
Dave Lindsay
8:55 PM
8:55 PM
iain scott: You say it's "Full HD", but is it "Freeview HD" which means does it contain a DVB-T2 tuner? The model number would allow assertion as to whether it does.
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Thursday, 8 January 2015
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Desmond kerr7:17 PM
Coldstream
Since july 2013, I have had very inconsistent signal on freeview...... I have a rooftop aerial, have checked my cables, have change freeview boxes, reset/retuned several times.
Sometimes I get evey channel, and other times I don't get any at all.....for days and days.
Help anyone please.
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