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 withheldTuesday, 16 March 2021
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StevensOnln111:21 PM
John McCallum : If you provide a full postcode we can check to see whether you might be able to receive more channels from another transmitter. The alternative is to look at getting Freesat, which gives you most of the same channels via free to air satellite (i.e. no subscription required).
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Chris.SE11:42 PM
John McCallum :
It's worth noting that quite a few modern TVs have a built-in satellite tuner, so all you need is a dish and LNB (even an old Sky one, as long as it isn't SkyQ which is not compatible).
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Thursday, 17 June 2021
Transmitter engineering
4:08 PM
4:08 PM
Darvel transmitter - Darvel transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 14/06/2021 Possible weak signal [DUK]
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Friday, 25 June 2021
Transmitter engineering
11:45 AM
11:45 AM
Darvel transmitter - Darvel transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 21/06/2021 Possible Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 28 June 2021
Transmitter engineering
5:46 AM
5:46 AM
Darvel transmitter - Darvel transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 28/06/2021 Possible Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Sunday, 4 July 2021
Transmitter engineering
11:46 PM
11:46 PM
Darvel transmitter - Darvel transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 05/07/2021 Possible Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Wednesday, 30 March 2022
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Ian Davidson9:47 AM
Mauchline
I have just changed my aerial to a Labgear LAB450T and am unable to pick up the channels on the com7 multiplex from the Darvel transmitter. My postcode is KA55AT. All other channels have great signal strength and quality. Is com7 broadcast on Ch 55 from Darvel or Ch 31 as I
'm unsure from the information I can gather from this website? I am picking up 5 channels on Ch 31Freq 554000kHz but none of them are from com7 multiplex. According to the site Darvel does not broadcast on Ch 31
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StevensOnln110:04 AM
Ian Davidson: COM7 is broadcast as a single frequency network (SFN) on UHF channel 55 from 25 transmitters (including Darvel) however it is predicted to be weaker at your postcode than the main multiplexes. UHF channel 31 is the local multiplex from Darvel which carries That's Scotland and a handful of other channels, which is predicted to have a stronger signal than COM7 at your postcode so it makes sense that you are receiving the local mux without difficulty.
COM7 is due to close when it's multiplex licence expires on 30th June 2022 so I wouldn't suggest spending too much time, effort or money trying to receive something which will be gone within 3 months.
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Ian Davidson12:17 PM
Mauchline
StevensOnln1:
Thank you for the timely reply. Will the channels I cannot receive at the moment be moved to another multiplex e.g.BBC News HD after com7 closes?
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Chris.SE1:31 PM
Ian Davidson:
There's been no announcements about what will happen to any of the channels currently on COM7. Most of us are expecting a lot of them will just close. There is very very limited space on other multiplexes for SD channels and the carriage fees will be higher, some broadcasters will not bother. There MAY be space on BBCB HD/PSB3 but whether the BBC will choose to put one of their COM7 HD channels there remains to be seen.
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