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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Sunday, 4 December 2016
Monday, 5 December 2016
MikeP
5:16 PM
5:16 PM
Alex Romanov:
I'm not surprised as you have not told us as yet what you have done to improve the signal levels. Until you take remedial action there is little we can do to assist any further.
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Tuesday, 6 December 2016
MikeP
1:26 PM
1:26 PM
Alexei Romanov:
What are you doing to have your aerial system problems rectified? The problems will not be resolved until *you* do something about it, it will not go away on its own.
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It's the transmissions,0 signal is 0,today I had pictures in slow motion.
I have a large high gain Danish aerial and a Philex booster.
The cost would be the same as a dish to replace.
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Wednesday, 7 December 2016
MikeP
5:09 PM
5:09 PM
Alexei Romanov:
It is NOT the transmissions else tens of thousands of people using the Black Hill transmitter would all have the same problem and these pages would be swamped with requests for help. As there are no such requests it IS your own equipment at fault and YOU are responsible for having that corrected at your expense.
Until you have a professional visit and correct your equipment fault, I will not be responding any further and I doubt other experienced contributors will either.
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I was told by someone else it could be someone's faulty box affecting it,even DAB radio signals can be affected.It's external.
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Martin B8:06 PM
alexei romanov: Black Hill serves jus under 2.3 MILLION viewers, using NINE seperate TV transmitters with full redundancy, is fully monitored and telemetered 24/7 by Arqiva engineering staff. It also is retransmitted by 44 relays, all of which are also monitored 24/7 by Arqiva staff. The DAB is entirely a different system that only shares the mast and site, not the transmission equipments - and YOU are the ONLY person with a problem,
It is very clearly YOUR equipment at fault!
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I just checked and BBC 1,2,4 ,Ch4,5 are fine but Dave is breaking up yet the signal strength is 48.All signals we're fine last week, some of the HD channels are fine yet others no signal.If it was the aerial then it would be all affected the same all the time and at the same time.Sunday I had signals morning but none evening when I switched on for Planet Earth Ii so watched it on my phone.I checked later and signals were back after midnight. I thought somehow maybe it was the weather conditions but it can work at -4C and at present 14C outside.This is the furthest place using the transmitter in this direction about 2324miles away.
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Thursday, 13 April 2017
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Maurice Murphy10:06 AM
I note on the list of proposed changes of frequencies from Blackhill that channel 51 is missing from the list.
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