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.
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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.
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?
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/bbc-reporting-scotland.jpg)
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 26km west (271°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/stv-glasgow.jpg)
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, 16 May 2018
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Lindsay 5:33 PM
No my postcode isn't wrong MikeP as I say it's just new houses but I'll try ur advice, thanks .
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Tuesday, 26 June 2018
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denis brogan10:59 PM
Uddingston last few weeks not getting freeview too good keeps telling me to re tune , done in tell blue in my face get some hd channels
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StevensOnln111:13 PM
denis brogan: Retuning will never fix a weak signal, as all you are doing is deleting your correctly tuned channels and searching for them again. You need to find the cause of the weak signal, so start by checking for loose or damaged cables and connections behind your TV.
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Friday, 7 September 2018
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Tom Tulloch9:07 AM
I can only get 29 tv channels in linlithgow isthere any thing I can do to improve this
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MikeP
10:29 AM
10:29 AM
Topm Tulloch:
There are over 1100 transmitters around the country so we have no idea which you should be using. So will you please provide a full post code so that triggers the display of the reception prediction data.
If you are using the Black Hill transmitter you should be getting all the available channels, so that suggests you are not using Black Hill.
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Saturday, 8 September 2018
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Murray Gourdie 10:30 AM
I live in Bathgate and have excellent signal strength from Blackhill. When prompted to retune my tv etc I discovered that I no longer have access to BBC4 HD and the other stations available on channels 32 and 35. Is this a permanent change?
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Nigel Webber11:54 AM
Hi 700MHz clearance on Black Hill, Scotland happened 5th September, however, I note that the frequencies reported by this website are identical to what they were before the clearance changes, but that some channels (BBC News HD, Channel 4+1HD) are no longer receivable as they were before.
Can someone confirm that the MUX frequencies have indeed NOT changed as a part of these works. I use a MUX config file with the 9 MUX'es listed as text within on a PC based tuner - hence my interest.
The no-longer receivable channels are also on the same MUX as previously.
Nigel
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Hi
There are no services at 562MHz or 586MHz (com7 + com8) despite full carrier (as listed in channel breakdown above). I can only assume that com7 and com8 have moved, but my system needs to know the frequencies so I can't re-tune until until I know which frequencies (in MHz) com7 and com8 have been moved to.
Nigel
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Nigel Webber12:42 PM
Hi
To answer my own question, on 5th Sept:
com7 moved from C32 (562.0MHz) to C55 (746MHz) eg BBC News HD
com8 moved from C35 (586.0MHz) to C56 (754MHz) eg BBC4 HD
Just verified this with individual frequency tuning.
And here was me thinking that this was a 700MHz 'clearance', not moving MUX'es further into the 700MHz spectrum!
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Nigel Webber1:38 PM
See, half way down this page for the info re the moving of com7 and com8
Ofcom announces 700 MHz clearance schedule 2017-20
specifically: "Channel 55 and 56 will be used for the interim HD multiplex com7 and com8:"
eg expect another re-tune when these MUX'es move again - likely back down below 700MHz
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