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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Craigkelly (Fife, Scotland) mast?
Craigkelly transmitter - Craigkelly transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 09/09/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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 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 |
Local transmitter maps
Craigkelly Freeview Craigkelly DAB Craigkelly TV region BBC Scotland STV Central (Edinburgh micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Craigkelly transmitter area
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Friday, 5 April 2019
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Colin7:44 PM
Mux psb2 (d3+4) Friday 20.15. No reception. This mux has recently been unreliable. We point at Craigkelly. Others muxes seem fine.
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MikeP
9:07 PM
9:07 PM
Colin:
Go to the Digital UK Coverage Checker and enter your full post code. Then select the Detailed View and scroll down to the resultant listings for your transmitter. That will show you the current and future channel allocations.
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Saturday, 6 April 2019
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
CRAIGKELLY transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 14:12 on 04 Apr to 14:30 on 04 Apr. [BBC]
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MikeP: Thanks. It shows green for all channels though thinks I'm pointing at a transmitter farther away than the one I point to. Don't think I can see a channel list for another transmitter but the general reception for that one is also green.
I thought I had line of sight to the nearer one but I suppose there could be reflection and refraction as there are roofs close to the sight line. However why should it suddenly change and why is only one mux affected ? (Actually I later realised two are affected.) The power of affected muxes is same as the muxes working.
Perhaps it's worth trying the farther away mast.
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MikeP
9:29 PM
9:29 PM
Colin:
That website gives a compass bearing to the transmitter from your location. So use that to determine whether your aerial is pointing in that direction or another., I advise using a proper compass and not just guessing. If it does not list another transmitter then they are pretty sure you should not be able to receive signals from it, certainly not reliably.
One other things for you to check is to make sure all your aerial cables are in good condition and undamaged. Also unplug all coaxial plugs/sockets and refit as that will clear any possible corrosion/oxidation on the contacts - a common cause of loss of one or more channels.
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Tuesday, 7 May 2019
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Colin Kerr4:47 PM
MikeP: thanks, I had used an exact compass bearing allowing for magnetic variation. I am now waiting for good weather to get on roof and point to Black Hill instead. Meanwhile reception has been fine.
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Sunday, 12 May 2019
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John Robinson6:35 PM
The channel allocation table on this page, as of today, is slightly wrong - com7 and com8 certainly aren't on C33 & C34 any more, they're only on C55 & C56, which as we know will be reallocated for 5G in a year's time. I guess that means there's no point my mum, who has lost BBC4 HD since the last shuffle, so presumably has a group A or K aerial, getting a broadband one.
But do we have any clearer idea when the next switchover shuffles - described in Rebuilding Freeview High Definition from 2019 onwards | free and easy - will be happening? And is it likely that BBC4 HD will reappear on one of the other commercial muxes (SDN, ArqA, ArqB) before presumably finally settling on one of the PSB muxes when they have their final switchover to DVB-T2?
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MikeP
10:13 PM
10:13 PM
John Robinson:
That error is known by the operator of this website. For the most up to date information please fo tyo the Digital UK Coverage Checker at http://www.digitaluk.co.u…er/, put in your post code and house number, select the Detailed View and then press Go. In the resulting page scroll down to see the entry for your transmitter. That will tell you the current channel usage as well as the planned future usage.
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Monday, 13 May 2019
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John Robinson7:46 PM
Thanks MikeP. I don't suppose you have any more insight into the other half of my query re future channel shuffling and DVB-T2 switchover?
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MikeP
10:05 PM
10:05 PM
John Robinson:
Use the website I mentioned. That shows the futue=re planned channel usage up till at leasr 2020.
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