Freeview Light on the Barskeoch Hill (Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Barskeoch Hill (Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland) transmitter which serves 6,800 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 Barskeoch Hill (Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland) mast?
BARSKEOCH HILL transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to essential engineering from 15 Oct 13:42 until 15 Oct 14:14. Off the air due to essential engineering from 15 Oct 12:38 until 15 Oct 13:25. . 
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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.
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Barskeoch Hill (Dumfries and Galloway, 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 Freeview channels does the Barskeoch Hill 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.
| Mux | H/V | Frequency | Height | Mode | Watts |
| PSB1 BBCA | V max | C29 (538.0MHz) | 228m | DTG- | 400W |
 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 | C31 (554.0MHz) | 228m | DTG- | 400W |
 3 STV (SD) (Border (Scotland)), 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 (Yorkshire Emley Moor), 35 STV+1 (Yorkshire Emley Moor), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C37 (602.0MHz) | 228m | DTG- | 400W |
 46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Scotland, 102 BBC Two HD Scotland, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Granada), 103 STV HD (ITV Granada), 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 | |||||
Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?
The Barskeoch Hill (Dumfries and Galloway, 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 Barskeoch Hill transmitter?
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 106km north-northwest (347°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
ITV Lookaround 0.1m homes 0.4%
from Carlisle CA1 3NT, 61km east (96°)
to ITV Border Scotland region - 27 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with Tyne Tees
How will the Barskeoch Hill (Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 31 Jul 2019 | |||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | C/D E T | A K T | |||
| C29 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C31 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C37 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
| C55tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | |||
| C59tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||
| C62 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCB | |||||
| C65 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 24 Jun 09 and 22 Jul 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 2kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 400W |
Local transmitter maps
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldSunday, 29 April 2012
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Colin7:31 PM
Why does Barskeoch Hill only deliver 3 muxes rather than the 6 elsewhere in the UK
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jb388:05 PM
Colin: Simply because the additional muxes seen on main stations are purely there "and paid for" by commercial interests, but with these same interests not being willing to pay towards the running costs of additional muxes in smaller areas that cover a limited number of homes, simply because its considered by them that the running costs involved would exceed the financial returns expected.
There are hundreds of PSB only muxes in the UK, and what's been said applies to them all.
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Colin: The three multiplexes that Barskeoch transmits are the Public Service Broadcaster (PSB) ones and there are over 1,000 other Freeview Lite transmitters that each cover a small area.
The other three muxes are operated by the Commercial (COM) broadcasters and they choose where to site their transmitter as they have no "Public Service" obligation. They cover 90% of the population by broadcasting from 81 of the largest sites (largest by population).
The projected cost of them using the rest of the transmitters would roughly double their cost of transmission whilst only adding 8.5% off the population to their potential viewer base. Due to the profit-driven motive of these organisations, they decided not to bother with the smaller transmitters.
For a more in-depth explanation, see Will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
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Monday, 24 June 2019
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JANET LYNNE WHEELER11:33 AM
Why dose dalbeattie have the worst signal in the Dumfries and Galloway area the most channels that I can get is 18 and now we can't even pick up any of the BBC TV channels let alone radio channels now as a TV licence payer of 154.50 per year I expect to be able to watch a lot more channels than just 18 so either get it sorted out or I am not paying for any more license's for I am not paying for goods that I am not receiving fully a very angry customer
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StevensOnln14:12 PM
JANET LYNNE WHEELER: Have you checked for any loose or damaged cables or connections behind your TV? Please provide a full postcode so that we can see which transmitters cover your exact location, where you are in relation to them and your predicted coverage etc. Your TV Licence is not a subscription and does not entitle you to receive any channels, it is merely a licence to receive TV broadcasts or watch BBC programmes on iPlayer, it does not provide funding to any commercial channels and has no bearing on your ability to receive them. It also isn't payment for goods of any sort. Also, posting on an unofficial technical help website telling people to "get it sorted" won't make anything happen, as no one from any broadcaster or transmitter company will read your post here, nor will anyone know where you are or be able to establish what is causing the loss of channels from such little information.
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Thursday, 1 August 2019
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Chris.SE1:34 AM
There's been a retune event on 31st July as part of the 700Mhz clearance, you should have seen on-screen messages over the previous few days to advise you need to retune.
An automatic tune should suffice. but if you have to do a manual tune the UHF channels are -
PSB1/BBCA - 29, PSB2/D3&4 - 31, PSB3/BBCB (HD) - 37.
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Tuesday, 15 October 2024
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BARSKEOCH HILL transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to essential engineering from 15 Oct 12:38 until 15 Oct 13:25. . [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
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BARSKEOCH HILL transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to essential engineering from 15 Oct 13:42 until 15 Oct 14:14. Off the air due to essential engineering from 15 Oct 12:38 until 15 Oct 13:25. . [BBC]
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