Full Freeview on the Darvel (East Ayrshire, Scotland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Darvel (East Ayrshire, Scotland) transmitter which serves 150,000 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 Darvel (East Ayrshire, Scotland) mast?
Darvel transmitter - Darvel 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)
Which Freeview channels does the Darvel 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)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Darvel transmitter?
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 31km north (1°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
STV News 1.3m homes 4.8%
from Glasgow G51 1PQ, 31km north (2°)
to STV Central (Glasgow) region - 94 masts.
Are there any self-help relays?
| Craigie Gardens | Transposer | 1 homes 90 caravans | |
| Inversnaid | Active deflector | 35 km N Dumbarton | 8 homes Hotel caravan park |
How will the Darvel (East Ayrshire, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 5 Sep 2018 | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | W T | |||||
| C22 | -BBCA | BBCA | |||||||
| C23 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | SDN | |||||
| C25 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||||||
| C26 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ArqA | |||||
| C28 | BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
| C29 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ArqB | |||||
| C30 | _local | ||||||||
| C31 | com7 | ||||||||
| C32 | SDN | ||||||||
| C33 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C34 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C35 | C5waves | C5waves | ArqB | ||||||
| C37 | com8 | ||||||||
| 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 11 May 11 and 25 May 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-5 | 100kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 10kW | |
| com8 | (-10.9dB) 8.19kW | |
| com7 | (-11.2dB) 7.5kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-14dB) 4kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 2kW |
Local transmitter maps
Darvel Freeview Darvel DAB Darvel AM/FM Darvel TV region BBC Scotland STV Central (Glasgow micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Darvel transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldSaturday, 22 April 2017
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Sewme6:00 PM
Troon
KA10 6RR. Roof
Please can you tell me why I can't receive channel 78, the sewing quarter on my freeview.
Is there any intention to add this channel?
Thank you in anticipation
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StevensOnln17:40 PM
Sewme: Sewing Quarter is broadcast from Darvel on the COM6 multiplex, but is only a part time channel operating from 8am to 12 noon. If you can already received 4Music on channel 18 then retune and Sewing Quarter should be added on 78.
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Sunday, 23 April 2017
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Sewme1:26 PM
StevensOnln1: Thank you for your response. I have retuned my tv but don't have ch18 or 78 I have had the aerial checked and it's fine and when I retune I have a lot of channels missing,. What is COM6 ? I don't know what else to do. Any help appreciated.
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StevensOnln12:22 PM
Sewme: Are you still receiving ITV3 on channel 10 and Pick on 11? COM6 is the multiplex (group of channels) which Sewing Quarter and 4Music are part of. Does your TV have a manual tuning function in the menu? If it does, select UHF C29 but don't press OK/Scan yet and you should see signal strength and quality information for COM6 from Darvel. If strength and quality are both good (60% or higher) you should be able to store those chanels.
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Monday, 24 April 2017
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Hugh Wilson6:24 PM
Will STV2 be available from Darvel? I have retuned but no Channel 8 yet...
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Hugh Wilson6:36 PM
Re my previous question, it has just appeared and total channels has gone from 158 to 163.
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Thursday, 11 May 2017
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Sewme8:25 PM
Still can't get ch78. Tv (which is new) won't store channels and I once had ch 10, 18 and 78 but next day all were gone and tv said no data? So, retuned and all channels started at 800, there were 10 in total. When I looked at tv info it said signal was central Scotland but this changed next day and signal strength is always less than 10! Any help appreciated as to is about to go out the window!
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Friday, 12 May 2017
MikeP
9:09 AM
Trowbridge
9:09 AM
Trowbridge
Sewme:
To offer any meaningful advice we need to check what the reception conditions are at your location, so please give a full post code so we can check.
From what you say, I would suspect that you have either too little signal or too much - but can't tell without the post code. It would also help if you give the signal strengths of channels that do work.
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Monday, 2 October 2017
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Euan Ferguson12:49 PM
can you advise when the barassie area of troon will be able to receive more freeview channels than at present time. having to use bt and sky to ensure a range of programmes available.
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StevensOnln12:50 PM
Euan Ferguson: There are no plans to add any further multiplexes to any transmitters. The commercial broadcasters were given the opportunity to add their channels to additional transmitters when digital switchover completed back in 2012 but declined to do so, probably because they didn't think the additional costs involved would bring a worthwhile return on investment.
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