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, 22 July 2017
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MikeB9:52 PM
Peterborough
Gary: You can check the links below your question - your 17km from the transmitter. So who knows? Indoor aerials aren't all that great, but if she's high up, might do. But there are no certainties. If she's in a flat, there is often a communal system, which might be more useful.
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Tuesday, 20 March 2018
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Darren8:48 AM
Television in Edinburgh EH68SQ keeps going distorted and like the television signal is not working. Reset the televisions, unpluggged them and returned them and still getting problems across every channel.. Its been like this around 5 days since we had all that snow. Speaking to some neighbours and 3 other places in my building are having the same problems. So something is not right.
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StevensOnln110:21 AM
Darren: Resetting and retuning will never fix a problem with a bad signal as you are just deleting all of your channels and searching for them again. If your neighbours are having the same problem and you are all using the same communal aerial system then you need to report it to whoever is responsible for maintenance so that they can send someone to fix it.
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Friday, 30 March 2018
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Peter Connell5:45 PM
Having retuned my free view tv twice I an still unable to receive STV2 at my home in Glenrothes. Blessed advise.
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StevensOnln111:20 PM
Peter Connell: Please provide a full postcode so that we can see your coverage prediction.
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Sunday, 1 April 2018
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Bidge7:18 PM
Bathgate
I have just set-up a new PVR (Humax FVP-5000T) as my previous one from EchoStar (HDT-610R) died yesterday. The new PVR is not picking up a couple of channels that the other one did (STV Local and TruTV, possibly others that I haven't noticed are gone as well).
Any ideas why this is and how I can get those channels (specially TruTV)?
Postcode area EH48 1RH
Thank you for time.
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StevensOnln17:32 PM
Bidge: The channels you mention are on the local multiplex. The Digital UK postcode checker predicts that you could get good reception from both Black Hill and Craigkelly transmitters for the main muxes, however the local mux from Craigkelly will be better than Black Hill when the broadcast frequencies change later this year. If your Humax has a manual tuning function, try manual tuning on UHF channel 30 if your aerial is pointed to Craigkelly (this carries the Edinburgh news on STV) or 51 if you're using Black Hill (carries Glasgow news on STV).
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Bidge8:28 PM
StevensOnln1: Thank you mate
My aerial is actually pointed at Blackhill, but on the manual tuning function its the Craigkelly UHF frequency that I am getting intermittent signal flashes from, nothing from Blackhill at all.
Still unable to to actually get the channels. Trying very hard to grab it when the strength and quality bar show any reception, but its only appearing for 0.5 - 3.0 secs at most every 10 minutes or so.
May need to get aerial engineer out, either for a new aerial or to reposition this one so its getting maximum signal out of Craigkelly.
~Thank you again.
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Wednesday, 27 June 2018
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Russell Willens10:56 PM
Dunbar
We are constantly getting a (No Data or Data Service) Weak signal for the past couple of weeks across all channels.
Our aerials are on the roof.
Please advise as we're missing the World cup as well as soaps.
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