Full Freeview on the Black Hill (North Lanarkshire, Scotland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Black Hill (North Lanarkshire, Scotland) transmitter which serves 940,000 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 Black Hill (North Lanarkshire, 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 Black 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.
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 Black Hill transmitter?
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 26km west (271°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
STV News 1.3m homes 4.8%
from Glasgow G51 1PQ, 26km west (271°)
to STV Central (Glasgow) region - 94 masts.
Are there any self-help relays?
| Ardtornish A | Transposer | 22 km NW Oban | 15 homes |
| Balquhidder | Transposer | 12 km NW Callander | 42 homes |
| Benmore B | Active deflector | 50 m WNW Glasgow | 7 homes |
| Blair Drummond | Transposer | 5 homes caravan park | |
| Blyth Bridge | Active deflector | 30 km SW Edinburgh | 50 homes |
| Glendaruel | Active deflector | 40 hotel | 40 homes hotel |
| Glendaruel B | Active deflector | 12 homes (second level) |
How will the Black Hill (North Lanarkshire, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1957-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 3 Oct 2018 | ||||
| VHF | B E T | B E T | B E T | E T | W T | ||||
| C10 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C30 | _local | ||||||||
| C32 | com7 | ||||||||
| C35 | com8 | ||||||||
| C37 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C40 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C41 | +SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C43 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C44 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C46 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C47 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C50tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C51tv_off | LG | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | _local | 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 8 Jun 11 and 22 Jun 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-5 | 500kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 100kW | |
| com7 | (-10.7dB) 42.9kW | |
| com8 | (-11.1dB) 39.2kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-14dB) 20kW | |
| LG | (-20dB) 5kW |
Local transmitter maps
Black Hill Freeview Black Hill DAB Black Hill TV region BBC Scotland STV Central (Glasgow micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Black Hill transmitter area
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Wednesday, 19 January 2011
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N. Dearie12:23 AM
why cant i receive channel stv ,4 and5 on freeview box?
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Steve: I can assure you that a "firmware upgrade" is not the same as a "factory reset" in any way.
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Steve6:33 PM
Briantist.
FYI You are correct in general but for this major upgrade and the way it is done for this pvr it does return the machine to the factory settings.
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Steve: I suspect I'm probably right here too. As your box isn't listed on the current DTG :: DTT Receiver Downloads schedule, asking for a "firmware upgrade" will simply result nothing happening at all.
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Steve8:24 PM
Briantist. Apologies, I wasn't making myself clear. The upgrade is done by downloading from the pvr's website onto a usb stick and doing it manually. Its not an over the air upgrade.
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Tuesday, 25 January 2011
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B Saberton1:05 PM
Wishaw
I'm having a lot of trouble getting the HD Channnels. I have a Humax HDR Fox T2 box, a loft mounted wide band aerial and am 6 miles from the transmitter. When first tuned in I got 80 TV channels but none of the HD ones. I tried re-tuning on 15th Jan and got all 4 HD channels ok and worked fin at first but as the week went on I could only view them intermittently and by Friday although they appear in the EPG with programme details I was getting no signal at all. I've tried re-tuning again today but am back to just 80 channels and no HD. The signal strength on the non HD channels is averaging 80% with signal quality 100%. When I had the HD channels signal strength was about 60% and quality 100%. I've checked that aerial alignment is ok and there don't appear to be any problems at the transmitter (my first thought was that the HD transmission might be off). Does anyone have any suggestions please?
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B's: mapB's Freeview map terrainB's terrain plot wavesB's frequency data B's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jb384:06 PM
B Saberton: It would appear as though at certain times you are picking up Blackhill's lower powered HD Multiplex on Ch59 at just above the receivability threshold on your equipment with this being where the intermittent aspect of reception is taking place, so rather than carrying out complete scans all the time I would concentrate on carrying out a manual scan on Ch59 every day to observe what changes are taking place.
Also although you have already checked the aerial alignment I would do it again purely on Ch59, because as that's a lower powered multiplex transmitter you want to concentrate on that particular one, albeit this maybe being at the slight expense of some of the other Mux channels.
Your loft aerial at the distance you are from the transmitter should be perfectly OK so long as your loft roof isn't lined with any form of metallic based insulation, and if it isn't then I don't feel that much, if anything, would be gained by moving it elsewhere excepting "maybe" to a facia mount, although even at that any differences noticed are fractional at your distance from the transmitter.
It should be noted that numerous people like yourself (not necessarily posting on this particular site) have problems with reception from Blackhill even at relatively short near line of sight distances, and although quite frequently no official notification of any problems with the transmitter are seen it shouldn't be taken as being the absolute gospel, plus of course it should always be remembered that most of these difficulties will effectively vanish when the MUX's change to full power operation, then possibly the reverse of what's presently complained about is liable to happen, people who upgraded (over!) their aerials might start suffering from signal overload problems.
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