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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Wednesday, 10 October 2018
MikeP
11:09 AM
11:09 AM
AEKostas:
The expected in future channels are listed below the current channels for each available trnasmitter. The klistings show the current channels as the top line folowed by the expected future channel usage below that, usually covering the period up to 2020.
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AEKostas12:52 PM
MikeP: Ok, I got it now: in the "Detailed view" there are some rows that show differences to values, maybe a couple of small changes per row in the case for Craigkelly. It is unclear to me what there will really mean in practice, I guess we suck it and see at the time.
Still annoyed I need a new aerial and a wideband at that, but hey ho, another one to suck and see.
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Thursday, 11 October 2018
MikeP
11:23 AM
11:23 AM
AEKostas:
Each row shows the channels being used in the timescale in the left hand column. Each row represents the channels used in future changes. So if row one shows it uses (hypothetically) 20,21,22,23,24,25 but the next row shows it uses channels 31,32,33,34,35,36 then that means some engineering work will be carried out in the timeframe show at the left end of that row.
Using the full post code for the transmitter location entered into the Digital UK Coverage Checker at Coverage Checker - Detailed View shows that currently Craigkelly uses channels 27, 24, 21+, 29, 31, 37, 55 and 56. It also shows that from 202 is will be using the same channels. It also shows that to receive the programmes carried on COM7 and COM8 you need a wideband aerial. That suggests that there are no changes planned in the foreseeable future at Craigkelly.
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Sunday, 11 November 2018
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AEKostas3:03 PM
Hello again,
Just to say that Freeview organised a company to come around. They turned up they day they said they would, seemed to have decent equipment, showed interest in resolving my problem and were pleasant to have around. They replaced my K-group aerial with a wideband that they had in their van and then replaced my masthead amplifier. FourHD works well, C4+1 not so, but I think that's as expected in this transmitter.
All that free of charge. Still annoyed at the decision to move us out of the K group.
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Friday, 5 April 2019
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Colin7:44 PM
Mux psb2 (d3+4) Friday 20.15. No reception. This mux has recently been unreliable. We point at Craigkelly. Others muxes seem fine.
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MikeP
9:07 PM
9:07 PM
Colin:
Go to the Digital UK Coverage Checker and enter your full post code. Then select the Detailed View and scroll down to the resultant listings for your transmitter. That will show you the current and future channel allocations.
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Saturday, 6 April 2019
MikeP: Thanks. It shows green for all channels though thinks I'm pointing at a transmitter farther away than the one I point to. Don't think I can see a channel list for another transmitter but the general reception for that one is also green.
I thought I had line of sight to the nearer one but I suppose there could be reflection and refraction as there are roofs close to the sight line. However why should it suddenly change and why is only one mux affected ? (Actually I later realised two are affected.) The power of affected muxes is same as the muxes working.
Perhaps it's worth trying the farther away mast.
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MikeP
9:29 PM
9:29 PM
Colin:
That website gives a compass bearing to the transmitter from your location. So use that to determine whether your aerial is pointing in that direction or another., I advise using a proper compass and not just guessing. If it does not list another transmitter then they are pretty sure you should not be able to receive signals from it, certainly not reliably.
One other things for you to check is to make sure all your aerial cables are in good condition and undamaged. Also unplug all coaxial plugs/sockets and refit as that will clear any possible corrosion/oxidation on the contacts - a common cause of loss of one or more channels.
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Tuesday, 7 May 2019
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Colin Kerr4:47 PM
MikeP: thanks, I had used an exact compass bearing allowing for magnetic variation. I am now waiting for good weather to get on roof and point to Black Hill instead. Meanwhile reception has been fine.
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Sunday, 12 May 2019
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John Robinson6:35 PM
The channel allocation table on this page, as of today, is slightly wrong - com7 and com8 certainly aren't on C33 & C34 any more, they're only on C55 & C56, which as we know will be reallocated for 5G in a year's time. I guess that means there's no point my mum, who has lost BBC4 HD since the last shuffle, so presumably has a group A or K aerial, getting a broadband one.
But do we have any clearer idea when the next switchover shuffles - described in Rebuilding Freeview High Definition from 2019 onwards | free and easy - will be happening? And is it likely that BBC4 HD will reappear on one of the other commercial muxes (SDN, ArqA, ArqB) before presumably finally settling on one of the PSB muxes when they have their final switchover to DVB-T2?
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