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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Sunday, 28 June 2020
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Rupert7:35 PM
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Chris.SE: Yes, Chris, I understand all that now. Thanks for responding.
As I said over on Black Hill, there's lots of useful and interesting information on this site - I have referred to it on and off for years. It's a real pity it's not being maintained.
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Rupert's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 14 July 2020
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AEKostas10:49 PM
Since the rearrangements for 5G I am struggling with BBC Four HD. Will things improve when we lose 55 and 56 in November?
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Chris.SE11:23 PM
AEKostas:
What makes you think that you'll (necessarily) lose 55 in November? 56 (COM8) has already been closed by Arqiva for commercial reasons - nothing else. There's still quite a bit of misleading information around, some based on some comment that the auction of 700MHz frequencies will take place in November, but I have yet to see an official OFCOM statement to that effect. Please read Rebuilding Freeview High Definition from 2019 onwards | free and easy
As it says at the end of that post Arqiva could decide to close COM7 at any time for commercial reasons. In any event COM7 signals will not change between now and June 2022 which is the final end date for COM7 if it doesn't close before. As for BBC4HD, you need to look to the BBC for what may happen there, there is (I believe) a review concerning BBC4 and rumours about it possibly being closed. If it continues, whether there will be space on the BBC HD multiplex for it when COM7 closes, or whether Arqiva will have started converting another multiplex to HD and the BBC move it there, is all speculation and an unknown at this time.
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Sunday, 26 July 2020
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AEKostas5:04 PM
Thanks Chris and sorry for the delay in answering. I read about c55 going under How will the Craigkelly (Fife, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time? above. Thanks in particular for the Four news; no point changing my aerial if it's to go.
Ach well...
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Chris.SE9:31 PM
AEKostas:
As per my post towards the top of the page, that section is not up-to-date (and is misleading). On the list of channels ArqB is wrongly listed as C38, the Local mux is wrongly listed as C30. COM7 is wrongly shown on C33 as is COM8 on C34. As already stated Arqiva closed COM8 (C56) for commercial reasons.
If there has been an announcement of an auction date in November (well hidden and not found yet) it will be some considerable time after IF any MNOs buy the centre frequencies where C55 & C56 are, as equipment to use these as SDOs has to be developed (and installed) as do handsets. That will not happen in a hurry.
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Friday, 19 March 2021
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Dean Steele2:29 PM
Hi - I've had my aerial set up for around six months or so (South-Central Edinburgh facing Craigkelly), but the last few days (maybe a week), I've been unable to get COM6, COM7 and LEH. I'm only particularly bothered about COM7 but I'm perplexed what has happened or what I need to do. Any ideas appreciated - thanks!
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Saturday, 20 March 2021
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Chris.SE2:34 PM
Dean Steele:
Make sure you are tuned to the correct UHF channels, see my post at Craigkelly (Fife, Scotland) Full Freeview transmitter | free and easy and some following posts give some further relevant information.
Check you don't have any HDMI leads close to any aerial or flyleads especially if the aerial/flyleads are not high quality double screened types. HDMI is known to sometimes cause interference.
Otherwise check all your coax connections as the transmitter hasn't been listed for Planned Engineering and I can't track down any reported faults (that doesn't mean there hasn't been any!).
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Sunday, 21 March 2021
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Dean Steele1:50 PM
Thanks Chris. Will keep attempting to improve things - no silver bullet it seems!
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Tuesday, 23 March 2021
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Chris.SE1:38 PM
Dean Steele:
No problem. Post back if you need any more help.
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Thursday, 19 August 2021
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Valerie Smith10:11 AM
How long is the work on Craigkelly transmitter going on
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