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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Tuesday, 30 July 2013
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Joe Graham12:28 PM
Colin Brown: Yes, same problem since Monday afternoon.
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Colin Brown12:40 PM
Joe Graham: Odd. Tried switch of and on - no effect. Took life in my hands and rescanned - hey presto its back again! I know nothing of the technology but I wonder what causes just one channel to disappear from the box even though it is being transmitted?
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Joe Graham1:09 PM
Colin Brown: I had the problem on 2 relays off 2 different main transmitters on 2 boxes. Did a quick rescan on 1 frequency on 1 box and programmes restored. Throughout I was getting good signal strength/quality on both frequencies for the 2 relays.
More rescanning needed methinks.
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Joe Graham1:52 PM
Colin Brown: I had a quick look at Ch4 on 770MHz. Compared the new PIDs on box1 after the rescan with those on box2 before it was rescanned.
eg old video PID 2818
new video PID 1101.
I guess everything else has changed too. Why, When?
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Monday, 21 October 2013
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Ralph Averbuch9:32 AM
Hi
No idea if it's relevant but... yesterday morning 20th October 2013, I noticed that all BBC channels over freeview would not work on any of the TVs in the house. We are on the Craigkelly transmitter. Checked everything internal and all seems A OK. All other channels also seem to be broadcasting fine - just applies to BBC freeview BBC1, 2, 3, 4 and BBC News. Freeview BBC radio is also not working. Right now HD TV channels seem to be OK from BBC.
Cheers
Ralph
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Sunday, 3 November 2013
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Ralph Averbuch6:13 PM
Tranent
CRAIGKELLY issues: 3rd Nov 2013 Not sure if work is still being done on the transmitter but over in East Lothian we're still struggling to get a reliable signal on any TVs in the house from BBC channels. Everything else seems to be OK though.
Picture on affected channels has lots of artefacts and freezes for minutes at a time. Prior to initial mast work was rock solid on BBC channels. Now being forced to watch SKY News!!! Radio for BBC also still banjaxed.
Originally mentioned this 21st Oct 2013. Would be good to know when the work is planned to be finished so I can give an update on whether it's returned to normal... or not.
Cheers
Ralph
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Ralph's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Michael8:58 PM
Ralph Averbuch: Tried BBC1 just now on my TV with no problems, and have no noticed any problems on any channels recently. Although, I am right below the transmitter so signal never usually a problem!
But here the problem affects all of your TVs, then you either have an aerial/distribution problem, some sort of local interference or a transmitter problem. The latter is rare, and the latter two can be checked by asking neighbours if they are also having problems with BBC Freeview.
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Monday, 4 November 2013
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John Robinson8:10 PM
My PVR missed its recordings last night after 10pm and reported "no signal", and when I got in from the pub it had no PSB1, so I was a bit miffed but watched something else instead. This morning all back to normal. Dunno if it was a transmitter outage or (more likely) the PVR threw a wobbly.
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John Robinson8:15 PM
Edinburgh
(Just FYI, I'm at EH7 4EE and usually I can get all 6 muxes from Craigkelly, Black Hill and Angus transmitters, and have done since before switchover, so it would probably have to be a total outage rather than running at reduced power for me to lose my Craigkelly signal.)
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John's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jb388:21 PM
John Robinson: Please be aware that work is being carried out this week at Craigkelly and with a "liable to interruption" notice having been posted on the engineering page to this effect.
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