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The symbol shows the location of the Ballachulish (Highland, Scotland) transmitter which serves 600 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 Ballachulish (Highland, Scotland) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Ballachulish 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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
C23 (490.0MHz)48mDTG-4W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) Scotland, 2 BBC Two Scotland, 7 BBC Alba HD, 23 BBC Three, 24 BBC Four (Scotland SD), 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 13 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
C30 (546.0MHz)48mDTG-4W
Channel icons
3 STV (SD) (STV Central (Glasgow micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) Scotland ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 Scotland ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (STV Edinburgh), 35 STV+1 (STV Edinburgh),

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C26 (514.0MHz)48mDTG-4W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Scotland, 102 BBC Two HD Scotland, 103 ITV 1 HD (STV West), 103 STV HD (STV West), 104 Channel 4 HD Scotland ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 108 BBC Scotland HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels

The Ballachulish (Highland, Scotland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, GREAT! action, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, GREAT! romance, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, W, Yesterday +1.

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 Ballachulish transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 107km south-southeast (151°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
regional news image
STV News 1.3m homes 4.8%
from Glasgow G51 1PQ, 107km south-southeast (151°)
to STV Central (Glasgow) region - 94 masts.

How will the Ballachulish (Highland, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?

1950s-80s1984-971997-981998-20102010-134 Oct 2017
VHFA K TA K TA K TA K TA K T
C2BBCtvwaves
C23ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesBBCABBCA
C26BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCBBBCB
C29C4wavesC4wavesC4wavesD3+4
C30D3+4
C33BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves

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 13 Oct 10 and 27 Oct 10.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4 18W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 3.6W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Torosay transmitter area

Aug 1957-Jun 1997Scottish Television
Jun 1997-Dec 2014STV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Ballachulish was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Comments
Wednesday, 25 September 2019
Transmitter engineering
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2:08 PM

BALLACHULISH transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 10:12 today to 11:38 today, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 10:12 today to 11:38 today. [BBC]

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Transmitter engineering
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5:08 PM

BALLACHULISH transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 15:33 today to 15:58 today, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 15:33 today to 15:58 today. [BBC]

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Thursday, 26 September 2019
Transmitter engineering
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5:08 AM

BALLACHULISH transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 15:33 yesterday to 15:58 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 15:33 yesterday to 15:58 yesterday. [BBC]

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Friday, 27 September 2019
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

5:08 AM

BALLACHULISH transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 15:33 on 25 Sep to 15:58 on 25 Sep, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 15:33 on 25 Sep to 15:58 on 25 Sep. [BBC]

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Wednesday, 9 December 2020
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Catherine
4:15 PM

Hello we live in Ballachulish and myself and my neighbor have had no free view channels all day. We have internet, I have gone through everything with BT and still nothing. Please can you check if their is a shortage, as it's strange we both have no tv? We have separate arials.

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Catherine
4:42 PM

Myself and my neighbor have no free view channels all day? We live in Ballachulish

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Thursday, 10 December 2020
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Alfonso Costa Mendez
8:48 AM

Catherine: The Ballachulish relay (and also Kinlochleven relay) get their signal from the Onich transmitter. Yesterday, Onich had a major engineering refit and so was off-air to allow the engineers to safely work on the antennas.

If you still have no signal today, then that suggests you retuned while the transmitters were off, and so your TVs will have lost their settings. Another retune now that the services are back on should sort it out.

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Friday, 9 July 2021
Transmitter engineering
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11:46 AM

Ballachulish transmitter - Ballachulish transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 05/07/2021 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]

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Monday, 12 July 2021
Transmitter engineering
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2:47 PM

Ballachulish transmitter - Ballachulish transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 12/07/2021 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]

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Sunday, 18 July 2021
Transmitter engineering
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11:17 PM

Ballachulish transmitter - Ballachulish transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 19/07/2021 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]

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