Full Freeview on the Craigkelly (Fife, Scotland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Craigkelly (Fife, Scotland) transmitter which serves 430,000 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 Craigkelly (Fife, 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 Craigkelly 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 Craigkelly transmitter?
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 70km west-southwest (252°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
STV News 0.5m homes 1.7%
from Edinburgh EH3 9QG, 14km south (174°)
to STV Central (Edinburgh) region - 8 masts.
Are there any self-help relays?
| Dullatur | Transposer | 20 km NE Glasgow | 40 homes |
| Edinburgh | Transposer | Sighthill area | 167 homes |
How will the Craigkelly (Fife, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 3 Oct 2018 | |||||
| A K T | K T | K T | K T | W T | |||||
| C21 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C24 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C27 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C29 | SDN | ||||||||
| C30 | LEH | ||||||||
| C31 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ArqA | |||||
| C32 | _local | ||||||||
| C33 | com7 | ||||||||
| C34 | com8 | ||||||||
| C37 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C39 | +ArqB | ||||||||
| C42 | SDN | ||||||||
| C45 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C48 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | 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 1 Jun 11 and 15 Jun 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 100kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
| com7, com8 | (-9.7dB) 10.8kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 10kW | |
| LEH | (-13dB) 5kW | |
| Analogue 5, Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-14dB) 4kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 2kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Craigkelly transmitter area
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Friday, 3 February 2012
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
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Milner Fleming10:22 AM
Anstruther
How can I not recieve ITV3+1.
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Monday, 27 February 2012
Wednesday, 9 May 2012
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John Robinson4:24 PM
Edinburgh
My shiny new Humax HDR-Fox T2 PVR won't pick the right frequencies when I do an auto-tune. I'm getting signals from Craigkelly (which I want), Black Hill and Angus. The Craigkelly ones are easily the strongest (~80% vs ~45% from Black Hill and ~30% from Angus).
When I allow a full automatic search to complete, so the box has picked up channels from Craigkelly, Black Hill and Angus transmitters, I am told that "Multiple Regions detected". There's an inset box which says "Scotland, GBR", and below that there's a menu for Central Scotland or North Scotland. The box always picks the channels which come from the Angus transmitter (and must therefore be the North channels), whichever option I pick. This is unfortunate, as they are the weakest and some channels (particularly the HD ones) break up.
When I do an automatic search but stop at channel 46 - i.e. after the box has scanned all the frequencies transmitted from Craigkelly, and already having picked some up from Black Hill, but not yet reached any of those from Angus - I am again offered a choice of region, with the inset box saying "Central Scotland, Scotland, GBR", but this time there are no menu items. I press OK to continue, and again the box chooses the weaker signals from Black Hill over the strong ones from Craigkelly.
Am I right in thinking that I should be being offered a choice of West and East - for example, STV has slightly different outputs on the Black Hill and Craigkelly transmitters (mostly just the local news programme, and of course the adverts).
Even if it is just Central, I think the box should be picking the strongest signal over the weaker ones.
Overall, I think there is a bug in the region selection feature on the box. I've reported this to Humax and I'm waiting for a response, but I don't expect much - when I called about it, they emailed me telling me to tune manually. I don't want to tune manually, in case there are programme or frequency changes, and I definitely don't want to recommend this box to my mum if it has to be tuned manually (she lives round the corner).
Is there anything I can do? Use an attenuator so the extra signals disappear? Get a more directional aerial? (Though this isn't going to stop me getting signals from Angus, the difference from us is about 3°).
Many thanks in advance for any ideas.
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John Robinson: Looking at the channel allocations of the three transmitters, what I suggest you do is run the automatic tuning scan through and unplug the aerial at 30%.
Then, once it has completed the automatic tuning procedure, plug the aerial back in.
This should get you the three PSBs from Craigkelly; 27, 24, 21.
Then go to the manual tuning function and add the three COMs; 42, 45, 39.
This removes the possibility that it will ever "see" the other two transmitters when it carries out its scan.
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John Robinson7:46 PM
Edinburgh
Dave Lindsay: Yes I know I can do a partial scan and use manual tuning, but I don't want to. If the programme line-up changes, or the frequencies change, I want the box to tell me and retune itself.
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Wednesday, 16 May 2012
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rob10:15 PM
Dunfermline
Hi
I am getting a broken signal, squiffy sound and picture on coms 4,5 and 6. Worse on 5 and 6.
This has been like this for as long as I can remember. I am in a top floor flat and I presume I have a shared aerial. I am knowledgeable enough to do all basic interference and connection tests. I have a booster from the wall and a split aerial feeding 2 freeview boxes. I have plugged direct to socket, rewired the socket and connections. I have basically eliminated all causes except the aerial.
Should I contact the property management company or just install a loft aerial?
Many thanks
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jb3811:24 PM
rob: As you are not that terribly far away from the transmitter I would be inclined to try a test using a set top aerial or a piece of wire about 12" long pushed into the inner part of the aerial socket, and if a picture of sorts is obtained then a simple loft aerial could be fitted as that should be suffice for satisfactory reception.
And with regards to the communal aerial, it might be prudent to ask any neighbours that you might be friendly with if they are also experiencing any of the problems you are having.
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Friday, 18 May 2012
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R. Rankine11:20 PM
Why does STV+1 on Freeview from Cragkelly have poor crackly sound. This has been the case since the Channel launched.
STV do nothing about it.
ITV+1 sound on Sky is perfect. STV prevent its viewers from having ITV+1 on Sky because of its contract with Sky.
Does STV+1 from Blackhill have similar sound problems.
Why is this problem not being fixed.
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