Full Freeview on the Darvel (East Ayrshire, Scotland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Darvel (East Ayrshire, Scotland) transmitter which serves 150,000 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 Darvel (East Ayrshire, 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Darvel 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Darvel transmitter?
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 31km north (1°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
STV News 1.3m homes 4.8%
from Glasgow G51 1PQ, 31km north (2°)
to STV Central (Glasgow) region - 94 masts.
Are there any self-help relays?
| Craigie Gardens | Transposer | 1 homes 90 caravans | |
| Inversnaid | Active deflector | 35 km N Dumbarton | 8 homes Hotel caravan park |
How will the Darvel (East Ayrshire, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 5 Sep 2018 | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | W T | |||||
| C22 | -BBCA | BBCA | |||||||
| C23 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | SDN | |||||
| C25 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||||||
| C26 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ArqA | |||||
| C28 | BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
| C29 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ArqB | |||||
| C30 | _local | ||||||||
| C31 | com7 | ||||||||
| C32 | SDN | ||||||||
| C33 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C34 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C35 | C5waves | C5waves | ArqB | ||||||
| C37 | com8 | ||||||||
| 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 11 May 11 and 25 May 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-5 | 100kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 10kW | |
| com8 | (-10.9dB) 8.19kW | |
| com7 | (-11.2dB) 7.5kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-14dB) 4kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 2kW |
Local transmitter maps
Darvel Freeview Darvel DAB Darvel AM/FM Darvel TV region BBC Scotland STV Central (Glasgow micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Darvel transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldSunday, 19 May 2013
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john12:45 AM
The TV reception from Darvel is rubbish i have lived in Ayrshire for 9 years and we have never had a great signal in North Ayrhire for all this time.
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Iain Davies 3:13 AM
Try using Divis in Northern Ireland, a lot of Ayrshire coast does.
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Of course, the Divis COM channels are co-channel with the Darvel COM channels. So if there are spots where Divis' COMs come in then that could degrade reception of Darvel's COMs.
The COM channels carry ITV3, Pick TV, Dave, Film4, 4seven and others.
Perhaps in some cases a different aerial would be better at rejecting these unwanted signals.
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Friday, 31 May 2013
Dave, further to your response about Divis interfering with some Ayrshire homes besides changing the aerial what else can be done , in one occasion i was 80 strength on CH23 but no quality when once there was great quality
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alex's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
alex: I and a few others responded to your posting on the other page:
Most popular questions | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice
The ATV site provides some useful information.
I'm not sure what else I can add as I'm not an aerial installer, more a technical bod.
Perhaps one of the pros can offer some more guidance.
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Tuesday, 18 June 2013
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steve12:29 AM
Hi all just wondering apart from divis can anyone in ayrshire pickup any
watchable signals from the irish republic?? reason i ask is although i reside
in the rosneath transmitter area ive always wondered if i buy one of those
big high gain DX style aerials i might be able to pull in a soarview signal
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Wednesday, 11 June 2014
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Jim Cameron1:21 PM
Kilwinning
I've checked for the above interference but can't find any.
My BBC 1 & 2 channels are constantly breaking up, freezing & showing a message saying there's no transmitter. All other channels seem fine.
My local transmitter is Darvel.
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Jim's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Saturday, 6 September 2014
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William C Small9:15 PM
Why have we in Irvine North Ayrshire lost Channel 23?
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jb3811:43 PM
William C Small: There is no known reason for you having lost reception from Darvels COM4 transmitter, have you as yet checked with any of your neighbours to find out if they are still able to receive ITV3 etc? if however they can, then remove the aerial from your TV or box and carry out an auto-tune to blank out anything stored, this then being followed by reconnecting the aerial and carrying out a second auto-tune to reload the channels into the tuners memory.
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Sunday, 7 September 2014
Strathearn
8:06 PM
8:06 PM
Channel 23 in Central South West Scotland is Local Channel STV Glasgow. [NOT STV Scotland] I have a colleague in a nearby locus and he says that after last Wednesdays re tune he can't pick up Channel 23 either - although he could before that...?
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