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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Tuesday, 19 November 2019
J
John8:11 PM
Glasgow
Sorry 405403
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Chris.SE9:04 PM
John:
Filters from At800 are free! For reference they do two, a Ch59 & Ch.60. The Ch.60 one from At800 is a very high spec. with a sharp cut-off. The Ch.59 one is more suitable where there are no channels being broadcast at the top end of the band.
According to the Televes spec. for the 405403 although they say it's a Ch.59 one, the claimed insertion loss from 47 - 782MHz is only one dB, so it would appear to be a high spec. filter.
It doesn't look as though you could easily take it out of circuit to see what effect it had on Ch.55&56 as it's hard wired in, but with that low insertion loss it probably won't make any noticeable difference. If either of those channels is that close to the "cliff-edge", that needs to be resolved.
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Saturday, 30 November 2019
J
John3:36 PM
Glasgow
Hi Chris, I managed to get the aerial fitter back and all channels are now working really well. Thanks again for all your help, it has got me to this point. Great.
John
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Chris.SE5:07 PM
John:
That's good news. Do you know what he did to sort it out, it could be useful info for future reference?
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John6:50 PM
Glasgow
He turned the aerial, log, a little further east, where he got the better signal on com7 and 8, without reducing the other muxes. I believe these channels, 55&56 will be stopping in my locale, G61 3PD, at the end of February. Hope this is helpful.
John
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Sunday, 1 December 2019
C
Chris.SE12:10 AM
John:
Thanks for that, he obviously approached that in the right way, I hope your trouble free reception continues.
At this time AFAIK there has been no decisions made about when the COMs 7&8 transmissions will cease either at Black Hill or any other transmitter that currently carries them. We are certainly not expecting any closures before mid-2020 and it's anticipated many may continue until 2022, but it will all depend on OFCOM and the Mobile operators. The frequencies currently used (C55&56) are allocated for SDL usage. This hasn't been auctioned yet. It's also uncertain when there will be handsets available that can use 700MHz SDL, never mind the operators bring such services into use.
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Thursday, 2 January 2020
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Rob Ferguson2:21 PM
I don't get Freeview Radio stations now on one of my TVs. Can you tell me where II can find a table showing which stations are found by each channel search (21 to 60) so I can fine tune a manual search.
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Chris.SE8:31 PM
Rob Ferguson:
Try Channel listings | Freeview
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Sunday, 10 May 2020
S
Sarah-Jane Morris12:33 PM
My mum has problems with her reception, sometimes the TV just says weak signal and last night it went off completely when it showed an outage on the Freeview checker. Apparently a neighbour has a number to call when this happens but I don't know who that is. I have spoken to Freeview this morning and they can't find anything wrong. I was told there is a booster in our area G21 that has to be reset but I don't know how I can get that done. Please help. My mum is 82 and it's the only company she has.
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Sarah-Jane Morris12:34 PM
Sorry, it's G12 1XH and the aerial is on the roof
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