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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Thursday, 8 January 2015
Dave Lindsay
7:31 PM
7:31 PM
Desmond kerr: This sounds like interference, which a battery-powered AM radio might locate. It could potentially be in a neighbouring property.
Things like the motor in the three-way port valve in your central heating/hot water system could be a culprit, for example.
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Thursday, 26 March 2015
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Jim Carnie8:19 PM
Duns
Postcode TD11 3EW
Dear Sir / Madam,
I live in Duns and according to your map Duns is out with all the coloured areas (which I can testify due to the low TV and pathetic digital radio signal strengths) so are you planning on improving the signal levels or must we put up with a 2nd rate service. I would like to point out that Duns is the 2nd largest town in Berwickshire.
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Jim's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Dave Lindsay
8:42 PM
8:42 PM
Jim Carnie: There are many parts of the country which don't have line-of-sight to the transmitter and as a result reception is variable. I'm not aware of any plans to boost the power some changes were made to some transmitters at switchover but Selkirk wasn't one of them.
At your location there would appear to be clear line-of-sight to Chatton, although as you probably know, this is a BBC North East & Cumbria/ITV Tyne Tees transmitter. So you are probably served well with TV, but not the preferred region.
Your difficulty with Selkirk is caused by terrain obstruction from about 4 miles to 6 miles out from your location:
Terrain between ( m a.g.l.) and (antenna m a.g.l.) - Optimising UK DTT Freeview and Radio aerial location
On some of those high points are trees which could certainly affect the signal and mean it varies by time and weather.
And looking on StreetView, there are some big trees near to some of the houses which could further hamper efforts.
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Monday, 12 December 2016
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Diane2:32 PM
For over a month tv signal has been really poor .just want to watch tv without it breaking up and chirping like a bird !
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StevensOnln13:05 PM
Diane: Have you checked all the cables and connections or done anything else to try and improve things? Please provide a postcode so we can see where you are in relation to the transmitter.
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Saturday, 4 February 2017
M
Martin9:07 AM
Whilst MikeP has been telling me on the Selkirk DAB section that I don't know anything about B700 retuning, this has been brewing for a while, and seems now to be official so I can reveal it.
http://www.digitaluk.co.u….pdf
Shoots down the post B700 allocations shown here doesn't it MIkeP. Selikirk is another site using 32/33/34/35/36/48.
But I suspect you still don't want to believe me eh MikeP....?
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MikeP
8:01 PM
8:01 PM
Martin:
Only now that your have revealed your source can we consider whether anything you have said has any validity or substance. Without the source being stated we cannot accept as true anything purporting to any future changes. Please do not misrepresent my position. All I needed was knowledge, and hence access, to you source.
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Sunday, 5 February 2017
M
Martin8:31 AM
As I've said on the other thread, you're welcome to carry on in your stubborn ignorance, I've tried to help and all you can do is bleat on that my information is unreliable and untrustworthy.
You won't hear from me again.
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MikeP
9:32 PM
9:32 PM
Martin:
You must understand that technical and scientific people do not work on assumptions but need 'chapter and verse'. As you did not give any indictaion until yesterday what the source of your information was we could not give it any credence until it had been proven correct, or otherwise. In other words we needed proof.
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Wednesday, 15 February 2017
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Dennis Fisher12:53 PM
Jedburgh
TD8 6UP. loft-based aerial.
We recieve good signals of all freeview channels, including HD. However, our digital HDD recorder stutters the playback of the independant channels? All BBC channel recording play back perfectly, but recordings from channels ITV, Channel 4, Film 4 all stutter on playback.
Any suggestions about where I should begin checking for errors?
Could this be a problem with the box reading certain frequencies?
Any thoughts on what checks can I carry out?
Thanks.
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Dennis's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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