Full Freeview on the Craigkelly (Fife, Scotland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Craigkelly (Fife, Scotland) transmitter which serves 430,000 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 Craigkelly (Fife, 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Craigkelly 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Craigkelly transmitter?
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 70km west-southwest (252°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
STV News 0.5m homes 1.7%
from Edinburgh EH3 9QG, 14km south (174°)
to STV Central (Edinburgh) region - 8 masts.
Are there any self-help relays?
| Dullatur | Transposer | 20 km NE Glasgow | 40 homes |
| Edinburgh | Transposer | Sighthill area | 167 homes |
How will the Craigkelly (Fife, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 3 Oct 2018 | |||||
| A K T | K T | K T | K T | W T | |||||
| C21 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C24 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C27 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C29 | SDN | ||||||||
| C30 | LEH | ||||||||
| C31 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ArqA | |||||
| C32 | _local | ||||||||
| C33 | com7 | ||||||||
| C34 | com8 | ||||||||
| C37 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C39 | +ArqB | ||||||||
| C42 | SDN | ||||||||
| C45 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C48 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off |
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 1 Jun 11 and 15 Jun 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 100kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
| com7, com8 | (-9.7dB) 10.8kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 10kW | |
| LEH | (-13dB) 5kW | |
| Analogue 5, Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-14dB) 4kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 2kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Craigkelly transmitter area
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Saturday, 28 December 2013
Saturday, 4 January 2014
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TTD4:19 PM
Musselburgh
Still can't get the channel list sorted by region - has no-one got any advice? It seemed this was a fairly active thread/forum when I joined up....
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TTD's: mapT's Freeview map terrainT's terrain plot wavesT's frequency data T's Freeview Detailed Coverage
TTD: If it is putting STV on logical channel number (LCN) 1 (rather than BBC One) then it must be noted that PSB2 is found first during the scan PSB2 being the multiplex which carries STV, STV+1, Channel 4 etc. So in such circumstances it would appear to be neglecting to assign the services their native LCNs under the Freeview system.
This makes me wonder whether the country setting isn't right as I've experienced the same thing when it's not been set correctly.
With the Freeview system each transmitter (or group of transmitters) is the "region". So selection of "region" is actually selection of transmitter. If the country setting is wrong then maybe it doesn't recognise the "region" identifiers that are being broadcast, thus the only option it can offer is one of signal quality.
I therefore think that the solution isn't necessarily one of looking to sort by region as opposed to sort by signal quality, although it is the case that irrespective of method used, the final solution is one where the "main" channels (i.e. those in proper LCNs and not those in the 800s) are those of Craigkelly.
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Chris4:57 PM
TTD. Is new flying lead pulling in Blackhill transmissions that is confusing recorder? I had a similar problem at switchover when one of the MUXs had a full stop after Central Scotland and it caused half the TV programmes to go into the 800s. (that lasted a couple of weeks until it was corrected).
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jb385:15 PM
TTD: If for any reason the advice given by Dave Lindsay fails to rectify the situation then you should blank out everything stored by carrying out an auto tune without the aerial being connected, then on completion of reconnect the aerial and check that the EPG is blank or alternatively a "no signal" message is seen, then go into the recorders tuning menu / manual tune and enter each of the mux channels used by Craigkelly one at a time starting with C27 (BBC), checking the EPG after each mux channel is scanned to make sure that its been stored correctly before going into the manual tuning menu again and entering the next mux number in line.
Craigkelly's mux numbers being /
27 (BBC1) - 24 (ITV1) - 21 (HD) - 42 (ITV3 etc) - 45 (Pick TV etc) - 39 (4 Music etc) - 33 (New HD)
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Wednesday, 8 January 2014
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Bill Thomson10:44 AM
Glenrothes
I'm in Glenrothes, postcode KY6 3PW. In the past few days I have lost my frewview signal I have a smart TV (Phillips) It seems to have "drifted" from signal. the TV was bought missing its instruction manual. I have since managed to aquire one but it seems to be written in abbreviations, or, Swahili.Do I aim for a frequency number to reset or whatever?I would be greatful if you could help as I will be reduced to watching the main home set.
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Bill's: mapB's Freeview map terrainB's terrain plot wavesB's frequency data B's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 30 January 2014
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Michael2:15 PM
Noticed two channels appeared today when I scanned UHF 30 - 791 and 792, local TV test screens.
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John Robinson10:20 PM
Michael, can you tell what mode it is? The info above for it doesn't match any of the modes listed on the modes page. Seems daft to use a non-standard mode, and also to use QPSK at all...
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Friday, 28 February 2014
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Derek McLean9:43 AM
It seems that Edinburgh TV is late arriving.
I have done a scan on two TVs and all I am getting on RF30 is a test card on 791 and BonanzaBonanza on 64. ETV is supposed to be on 34, according to the information above, but even after doing a First-time Installation that channel number is still showing ITV3+1.
Does anybody have information on ETV?
Oh, by the way, I'm near Dunbar and I'm getting the test card signal with what my TVs say is a 10/10 signal quality.
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Michael7:39 PM
Derek McLean: ETV will be on LCN 26 when it arrives.
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