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Freeview Light on the Balnaguard (Perth and Kinross, Scotland) transmitter

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The symbol shows the location of the Balnaguard (Perth and Kinross, Scotland) transmitter which serves less than 500 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 Balnaguard (Perth and Kinross, Scotland) mast?

BALNAGUARD transmitter - Freeview: Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 30 Oct 18:47 until 30 Oct 22:29. . BBC


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Which Freeview channels does the Balnaguard 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
C40 (626.0MHz)193mDTG-2W
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
C43 (650.0MHz)193mDTG-2W
Channel icons
3 STV (SD) (STV North (Dundee 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), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C46 (674.0MHz)193mDTG-2W
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 Balnaguard (Perth and Kinross, Scotland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, 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, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.

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 Balnaguard transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 94km south-southwest (205°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
regional news image
STV News 0.2m homes 0.8%
from Dundee DD1 4QB, 49km east-southeast (115°)
to STV North (Dundee) region - 24 masts.

How will the Balnaguard (Perth and Kinross, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20102010-1327 Nov 2019
B E TB E TB E TB E TB E K T
C39ITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves 
C40BBCA
C42BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBCB
C43D3+4
C45C4wavesC4wavesC4wavesD3+4
C46BBCB
C49tv_offBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCA

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 4 Aug 10 and 18 Aug 10.

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

Analogue 1-4 9W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-6.5dB) 2W

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

Sep 1961-Jun 1997Grampian 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. Balnaguard 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, 10 August 2011
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tracy reynolds
10:26 PM
Pitlochry

my television only works well when the weather is good, any rain or wind and the picture freezes. our location is ph9 0lh and our ariel is in the roof. thanks

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Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

11:31 PM

tracy reynolds: This usually indicates that water is getting into the aerial cable, so you should probably have the cable replaced.

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Thursday, 21 November 2013
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EVELYN MACDONALD
10:37 AM

I have had no TV signal since last night would like to know what is happening

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Russ Dring
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10:48 AM
Spalding

EVELYN MACDONALD: You don't give any indication which transmitter you receive your signal from,where you are situated, what equipment you have?
Without this no one will be able to offer advice.

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KMJ,Derby
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11:24 AM

EVELYN MACDONALD: If you are receiving from Balnaguard, according to BBC engineering information, service was restored at 08.03 this morning - 21st November 2013. This also applies to dependant relay Blair Atholl.

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Saturday, 19 October 2024
Transmitter engineering
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5:09 AM

BALNAGUARD transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to a fault from 19 Oct 00:41 until 19 Oct 01:32. . [BBC]

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Wednesday, 30 October 2024
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8:20 PM

BALNAGUARD transmitter - Freeview: Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 30 Oct 18:47. . [BBC]

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Thursday, 31 October 2024
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5:10 AM

BALNAGUARD transmitter - Freeview: Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 30 Oct 18:47 until 30 Oct 22:29. . [BBC]

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