Full Freeview on the Black Hill (North Lanarkshire, Scotland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Black Hill (North Lanarkshire, Scotland) transmitter which serves 940,000 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.
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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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Black Hill 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 Black Hill transmitter?
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/bbc-reporting-scotland.jpg)
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 26km west (271°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/stv-glasgow.jpg)
STV News 1.3m homes 4.8%
from Glasgow G51 1PQ, 26km west (271°)
to STV Central (Glasgow) region - 94 masts.
Are there any self-help relays?
Ardtornish A | Transposer | 22 km NW Oban | 15 homes |
Balquhidder | Transposer | 12 km NW Callander | 42 homes |
Benmore B | Active deflector | 50 m WNW Glasgow | 7 homes |
Blair Drummond | Transposer | 5 homes caravan park | |
Blyth Bridge | Active deflector | 30 km SW Edinburgh | 50 homes |
Glendaruel | Active deflector | 40 hotel | 40 homes hotel |
Glendaruel B | Active deflector | 12 homes (second level) |
How will the Black Hill (North Lanarkshire, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?
1957-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 3 Oct 2018 | ||||
VHF | B E T | B E T | B E T | E T | W T | ||||
C10 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
C30 | _local | ||||||||
C32 | com7 | ||||||||
C35 | com8 | ||||||||
C37 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
C40 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
C41 | +SDN | SDN | |||||||
C43 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
C44 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
C46 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
C47 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
C50tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
C51tv_off | LG | ||||||||
C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
C56tv_off | _local | 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 8 Jun 11 and 22 Jun 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-5 | 500kW | |
SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 100kW | |
com7 | (-10.7dB) 42.9kW | |
com8 | (-11.1dB) 39.2kW | |
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-14dB) 20kW | |
LG | (-20dB) 5kW |
Local transmitter maps
Black Hill Freeview Black Hill DAB Black Hill TV region BBC Scotland STV Central (Glasgow micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Black Hill transmitter area
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Tuesday, 10 February 2015
Transmitter engineering
7:31 AM
7:31 AM
BLACK HILL transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 00:46 on 06 Feb to 01:42 on 06 Feb. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 17:07 yesterday, Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 07:56 yesterday to 17:07 yesterday, Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 17:05 on 08 Feb to 07:56 yesterday, Radio [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
9:09 AM
9:09 AM
BLACK HILL transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 00:46 on 06 Feb to 01:42 on 06 Feb. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 17:07 yesterday, Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 17:05 on 08 Feb to 07:56 yesterday, Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 07:56 yesterday to 17:07 yesterday, Radio [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
10:32 AM
10:32 AM
BLACK HILL transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 00:46 on 06 Feb to 01:42 on 06 Feb. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 07:54 today, Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 17:07 yesterday to 07:54 today, Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 07:56 yesterday to 17:07 yesterday, Radio 1 FM We [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
1:33 PM
1:33 PM
BLACK HILL transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 00:46 on 06 Feb to 01:42 on 06 Feb. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 07:54 today, Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 17:07 yesterday to 07:54 today, Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 17:05 on 08 Feb to 07:56 yesterday, Radio 1 FM We [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
4:31 PM
4:31 PM
BLACK HILL transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 00:46 on 06 Feb to 01:42 on 06 Feb. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 07:56 yesterday to 17:07 yesterday, Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 07:54 today, Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 17:07 yesterday to 07:54 today, Radio 1 FM We [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
7:31 PM
7:31 PM
BLACK HILL transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 00:46 on 06 Feb to 01:42 on 06 Feb. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 07:56 yesterday to 17:07 yesterday, Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 17:05 on 08 Feb to 07:56 yesterday, Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 16:00 on 08 Feb to 17: [BBC]
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Monday, 6 April 2015
Transmitter engineering
9:09 AM
9:09 AM
BLACK HILL transmitter - MainPossible weak signal [DUK]
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Sunday, 26 April 2015
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Julie burley12:32 PM
Glasgow
Tv has had no signal since thurs. not just my house, others in the same street also having this problem. Ariel on roof . Everything checked nd double checked and also indoor ariel tried
G13 2QZ, nos 32.
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Julie's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Wednesday, 13 May 2015
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S Brown9:11 PM
Eh223ew
There has been a reception problem over the past week. I have been advised that there is an aerial newly installed in the Newbattle area blocking the Blackhill signal all over the area - is this correct?
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Thursday, 14 May 2015
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jb3812:19 AM
S Brown: The Newbattle Freeview light relay transmitter (the one referred to?) will have no effect whatsoever with your Freeview reception, that is unless whoever has provided you with the information has been referring to a 4G phone mast?
However, on the subject of reception, the Craigkelly (Fife) transmitter is the station indicated as the one covering your area rather than that mentioned of Blackhill, this latter station indicated with a status of poor as far as signal reliability is concerned.
As no engineering work is being carried out at any of the aforementioned stations, its advisable to make one or two local enquiries to ascertain if anyone else in the area is suffering from similar problems with reception, the purpose of being to eliminate the possibility of your aerial system being responsible for the problem.
By the way, Craigkelly transmits on the following multiplex channels.
27 - 24 - 21 - 42 - 45 - 39 / COM7 33 / COM8 34 / L-EDN (local) 30.
Blackhill
46 - 43 - 40 - 41 - 44 - 47
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