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The symbol shows the location of the Keelylang Hill transmitter which serves 9,400 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 Keelylang Hill mast?

Keelylang Hill transmitter - Keelylang Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 18/03/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels Digital tick


Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name
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Which Freeview channels does the Keelylang Hill 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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 H max
C46 (674.0MHz)269mDTG-20,000W
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1 BBC One (SD) Scotland, 2 BBC Two Scotland, 7 BBC Alba HD, 23 BBC Three, 24 BBC Four (Scotland SD), 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 13 others

PSB2
D3+4
 H max
C43 (650.0MHz)269mDTG-20,000W
Channel icons
3 STV (SD) (STV North (Aberdeen micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) Scotland ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 Scotland ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (STV Edinburgh), 35 STV+1 (STV Edinburgh),

PSB3
BBCB
 H max
C40+ (626.2MHz)269mDTG-20,000W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Scotland, 102 BBC Two HD Scotland, 103 ITV 1 HD (STV West), 103 STV HD (STV West), 104 Channel 4 HD Scotland ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 108 BBC Scotland HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

COM4
SDN
 H -3dB
C42 (642.0MHz)269mDTG-810,000W
Channel icons
20 Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 Dave ja vu, 58 ITVBe +1, 59 ITV3 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 78 TCC, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 89 ITV4 +1, 91 WildEarth, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 267 Al Jazeera English, plus 30 others

COM5
ArqA
 H -3dB
C45 (666.0MHz)269mDTG-810,000W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 Yesterday +1, 75 That's 90s, 233 Sky News, plus 11 others

COM6
ArqB
 H -3dB
C39+ (618.2MHz)269mDTG-810,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 W, 27 Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! romance, 56 That's TV (UK), 61 GREAT! movies extra, 63 GREAT! romance mix, 71 That’s 60s, 73 HobbyMaker, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

DTG-8 64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

The Keelylang Hill mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .

If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.

Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Keelylang Hill transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 355km south-southwest (194°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
regional news image
STV News 0.4m homes 1.5%
from Aberdeen AB12 3QH, 214km south-southeast (164°)
to STV North (Aberdeen) region - 76 masts.

How will the Keelylang Hill transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20102010-132013-182013-1729 Sep 2017
B E TB E TB E TB E TB E K TB E K TB E K T
C39 +ArqB+ArqBArqB
C40BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves +BBCB+BBCBBBCB
C42SDNSDNSDNSDN
C43ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4D3+4D3+4
C45ArqAArqAArqAArqA
C46BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCABBCABBCA
C49tv_off+ArqB
C50tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4waves+BBCB

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 12 May 10 and 26 May 10.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4 100kW
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 20kW
SDN, ARQA, ARQB(-10dB) 10kW
Mux 1*, Mux 2*(-20dB) 1000W
Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D*(-22dB) 630W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Keelylang Hill transmitter area

Sep 1961-Jun 1997Grampian Television
Jun 1997-Dec 2014STV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Keelylang Hill was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

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Wednesday, 5 August 2020
Transmitter engineering
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10:27 PM

KEELYLANG HILL transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 4 Aug 10:05 until 4 Aug 11:32. . [BBC]

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Saturday, 22 August 2020
Transmitter engineering
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1:09 PM

KEELYLANG HILL transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 4 Aug 10:05 until 4 Aug 11:32. . [BBC]

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Saturday, 29 August 2020
Transmitter engineering
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4:28 PM

KEELYLANG HILL transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 27 Aug 17:01 until 27 Aug 17:08. . [BBC]

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Friday, 30 October 2020
Transmitter engineering
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10:25 PM

KEELYLANG HILL transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 30 Oct 11:02 until 30 Oct 13:50. . [BBC]

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Monday, 7 December 2020
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Trevor Hill
8:06 AM
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KW14 8XW

Just for my curiosity, could you answer a question regarding a HDD recording issue. Never, ever had an issue recording programmes, but Nov 29th to 4th Dec 2020, my Panasonic recorder recorded zero. Then, 5th Dec started again. We connect to Keeleylang, always a good signal for many years. All our TV sets worked perfectly during this period.
Thank you in advance for any light you can shed in my darkness!

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Tuesday, 8 December 2020
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Chris.SE
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2:21 AM

Trevor Hill:

The issue might have been related to some possible corrupt data in the EPG.
Whilst I don't know if there was any such corrupt data that week, one of the regular posters here keeps an eye on the EPG from time to time, so there may be some information forthcoming.

According to the Freeview Detailed Coverage Checker you've got excellent reception, so it's nothing to do with that! I can't find any detail of any reported faults or Planned Engineering that week.
Whilst I don't know which Panasonic you are using, nor am I familiar with any of them, I am aware from other reports that a lot of Panasonics had these sort of issues a couple of years ago. It looks as though there was a firmware update which may have solved the problem at that time, but I've no idea if it was a "for all time" fix.
It would be worth you checking that you do have the latest firmware for your model.

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js
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1:49 PM

Chris.SE: There's corrupt data every week!
Trevor Hill: My psychic abilities fail me. What programmes didn't record?
Supposition: Panasonic PVRs pay attention to DRM messages, which may have been altered.


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Monday, 14 December 2020
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js
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8:16 AM

Freeview EIT Invalid Character Codes:

To enable anyone interested to see these code errors for themselves, I have uploaded some programme clips.

The clips were recorded by Tvheadend, which happens to record the EIT along with the video and audio streams of the programme.

The full eight day programme schedule repeats every thirty seconds so that determined the clip durations.

The schedules can be seen by installing MediaInfo: MediaInfo - Wikipedia

Download: MediaInfo

Once installed, right clicking on a clip shows the media properties of that clip.

If an appropriate view is chosen, the events scheduled for the next week are also shown.

The included file "North West_BBC A__2020 12 14 053417.txt" shows the events with errors in the current EIT, as determined by my EIT parser.

Looking at those events using the "tree" view, square blocks are seen in the text at the positions of the errors.

If the "xml" view is selected, the events with errors are not displayed because the characters are not valid in xml.

In that case you will see a representation in binary.base64.

An online base64 decoder: Base64 Decode - Online Tool

I have included the MediaInfo.xml outputs for each clip.

Download FreeviewEITerrors.zip
File Size: 16.70MB
Free large file hosting. Send big files the easy way!


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Wednesday, 16 December 2020
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Chris.SE
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1:02 AM

js:

Thanks for that js. I've downloaded the zip file, I'll hopefully find time to look it over next week (although I did have a quick look at one of the TS files :D :D :D ).

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Friday, 8 January 2021
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

7:54 AM

KEELYLANG HILL transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 8 Jan 03:21 until 8 Jan 03:28. . [BBC]

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