Full Freeview on the Black Hill (North Lanarkshire, Scotland) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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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.

Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Black Hill (North Lanarkshire, Scotland) mast?

Black Hill transmitter - Black Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 25/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels

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Which Freeview channels does the Black Hill transmitter broadcast?

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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.

Mux	H/V	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	H max	C46 (674.0MHz)	576m	DTG-	100,000W
	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	H max	C43 (650.0MHz)	576m	DTG-	100,000W
	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), 71 That’s 60s,
PSB3 BBCB	H max	C40 (626.0MHz)	576m	DTG-	100,000W
	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 66 TBN UK,
COM4 SDN	H max	C41+ (634.2MHz)	576m	DTG-8	100,000W
	20 U&Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 U&Dave ja vu, 58 ITV3 +1, 59 ITV4 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 91 WildEarth, 93 ITVBe +1, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 251 Al Jazeera English, 255 FRANCE 24 (in English), 265 Rok Sky +1, plus 29 others
COM5 ArqA	H max	C44 (658.0MHz)	576m	DTG-8	100,000W
	11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 U&Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 U&Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 &UYesterday +1, 76 That's TV 2 MCR, 233 Sky News, plus 13 others
COM6 ArqB	H max	C47 (682.0MHz)	576m	DTG-8	100,000W
	12 Quest, 25 U&W, 27 U&Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 63 GREAT! romance mix, 73 HobbyMaker, 75 That's 90s, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others
LG	H -13dB	C30 (546.0MHz)	576m	DTG-12	5,000W
	from 2nd June 2014: 8 STV Glasgow,

DTG-8 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	ITV_waves
C30						_local
C32						com7
C35						com8
C37			C5_waves	C5_waves
C40		BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBCB	BBCB
C41					+SDN	SDN
C43		ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	D3+4	D3+4
C44					ArqA	ArqA
C46		BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBCA	BBCA
C47					ArqB	ArqB
C50_{tv_off}		C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves
C51_{tv_off}						LG
C55_{tv_off}						com7_{tv_off}
C56_{tv_off}					_local	COM8_{tv_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

Aug 1957-Jun 1997	Scottish Television
Jun 1997-Dec 2014	STV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

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Neville Wake
11:40 AM

My is from the Central Scotland and is great on all except channel 42 which cuts out every thirty seconds or so. Are there problems that are not being shown on the website?

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KMJ,Derby

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12:34 PM

Neville Wake: which mux are you receiving on ? This is not a used by the main , but you could be receiving an additional weaker from a , such as for example, (if you are located to the Southwest of Glasgow) which has been tuned in erroneously.

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alexei romanov

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10:20 AM
Bishopton

It says no problems yet I am losing Hd and breakup of ordinary

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MikeP

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10:37 PM
Trowbridge

Alexei Romanov:

Check that your TV is tuned to the transmissions from and not those from Roseneath, which could be received poorly vai the back of your . It is best to check which numbers have been tuned in using the manual method, the User Manual for your TV should tell you how to do that.

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Andrew
10:08 PM

alexei romanov:

I am experiencing similar disruption on the BBC HD . Everything has been fine until this week. I am retuning my box to see if that resolves this issue...

Hmm, ok. That's not helped; BBC 1 (101) and 2 (102) HD have been dropped from the .

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Andrew
10:49 PM

Andrew: be587af30aa274cdbd6330bd31a20247

Ok, I've unplugged the box, and routed the directly into the TV. Retuning pulled back all of the that I'd 'lost'. I've put the aerial back into the Freeview box, retuned (again), and the channels are back. And they seem to have a good strength as well. Fingers crossed that this is an end to the inconvenience.

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MikeB

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11:02 PM

Andrew: You shouldn't retune - it just wipes out what you know thats works. It sounds like you may have a problem with your system - or possibly just the box or a . Check your levels on both devices, and perhaps wap out an cable - its a cheap fix if ones got a probalem.

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alexei romanov

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11:40 PM
Bishopton

The signals come and go.too weak to run a box and TV.Worse in morning when I want to watch Channel 5.

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MikeB

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9:02 AM

alexei romanov: look at the digitaluk link. Your 40km from with good - so check your tuned to Black Heath. If you are, then look at signal strength. If its that low, check your system - sounds like something is wrong there.

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alexei romanov

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11:55 AM
Bishopton

The of Had is better than ordinary today but the sound cuts out, it doesn't do this on BBCnewsHD.Want to watch the Rangers game on BBCAlba but I am getting sound only on this at present.It is tuned to Blackhill,the TV won't tune to weaker signals from other

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