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The symbol shows the location of the Killearn (Stirling, Scotland) transmitter which serves 2,600 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 Killearn (Stirling, Scotland) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Killearn 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
 V max
C32 (562.0MHz)163mDTG-100W
Channel icons
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
 V max
C34 (578.0MHz)163mDTG-100W
Channel icons
3 STV (SD) (STV Central (Glasgow 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), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C35 (586.0MHz)163mDTG-100W
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

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels

The Killearn (Stirling, Scotland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.

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 Killearn transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 21km south-southeast (156°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
regional news image
STV News 1.3m homes 4.8%
from Glasgow G51 1PQ, 22km south-southeast (156°)
to STV Central (Glasgow) region - 94 masts.

How will the Killearn (Stirling, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20112011-135 Sep 2018
C/D EC/D EC/D EC/D E TA K T
C32BBCA
C34D3+4
C35BBCB
C50tv_offBBCA
C55tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4wavesBBCB
C59tv_offITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4
C62BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves
C65BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves

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 8 Jun 11 and 22 Jun 11.

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

Analogue 1-4 500W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 100W

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

Aug 1957-Jun 1997Scottish 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. Killearn 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.

Comments
Friday, 15 July 2011
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Gary Miller
3:34 PM
Glasgow

Hi.

We live in post code G63 0BS.

Ever since the switch over we only get Mux 2 and not 1, A, B, C or D.

Bought new Bush Freeview box and scart lead.

I've trawled all of the help sites and done dozens of tips and advice, but no luck.

Any ideas please?

Thanks.

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Sunday, 17 July 2011
Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

11:23 AM

Gary Miller: I would suspect that you now have too much signal. You are served now by four transmitters.

If you have any boosters or amplifiers, remove them from your system.

If you don't, you might have to fit an attenuator to reduce the signal levels.

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Monday, 18 July 2011
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Gary Miller
8:30 AM
Glasgow

Gary Miller:

Hi. I've now carried out all of the diagnostics recommended here with no success.

The rooftop aerial is about 18 months old. The Bush Freeview box, brand new, does not allow us to re-tune manually.

Any ideas please?

Thanks!

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Gary Miller
8:35 AM
Glasgow

Briantist:

Thanks for the response.

No boosters are attached. I don't think we need an attenuator. The Bush Freebox instructions tell us that, if receiving signal from more than one source, then we are given the choice to select the transmitter we want.

As we are given no choice of transmitter, I concluded that we are only receiving signal from the Killearn transmitter.

It's very frustrating as none of our neighbours are having any problems at all.

I'm beginning to think it's the rooftop aerial. It was installed by the council about 18 months ago, when work on the chimney damaged the original one.

Any other tips I can try?

Thanks!

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Briantist
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11:39 AM

Gary Miller: I would suspect the aerial. Anyway, it should be pointing at Rosneath or Black Hill where you will receive all six multiplexes from. You will only get Freeview Light from Killearn or Millburn Muir.

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jb38
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2:43 PM

Gary Miller: When you say that your neighbours are not having any problems is this on a "like for like" basis? in other words them receiving with no problems exactly what you cannot? if they are, then does their aerial point in the same direction as yours, and if not what direction?

I will say that trade predictor does show that you should be able to receive signals from Blackhill, Roseneath and Milburn Muir, however although the trade predictor can in many instances be a reasonably accurate reference source, in my experience it is also prone to showing some fanciful indications of what's possible, (or not as the case may be!) and as most signals reaching the Drymen(?) area from further a field generally has to pass over forestry ground of one sort or another, this can affect what is actually received in real life.

That aside though, the crux of the matter rests with what you find out regarding what your neighbours receive and where their aerial points.



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jb38
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5:59 PM

Gary Miller: Also meant to add, that what would help you in determining the reason for your problem irrespective of what the cause, would be if your neighbour was amenable to the idea of letting you re-scan your box on their aerial.

Should you manage that, do NOT be tempted to try any further re-scans at any time until after you have sorted the problem out, as all you would do is to lose what has been stored in your boxes memory locations.

Re-scans should only really be carried out after any transmitter updating alterations etc, albeit that most people do make the mistake of automatically carrying out a re-scan at the first sign of their signal going down, this resulting in them having to carry out frequent re-scans to try and recover the lost channels, as they wont come back once lost from the memory, whereas if they had just things as they were the channel (s) would have returned of their our accord.

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Monday, 1 December 2014
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Jane Hunter
2:03 PM

The Stv reception in the Killearn area has been terrible over the last 2-3 wks. Freezing frame, missing words, pixel picture distortion all the time - very frustrating. Many people have complained on our local Facebook page. Thought at first it was my aerial but phoned my local. Aerial guy & he said lots of people are complaining about the same thing. Please can you/an engineer check out our transmitter. Please note the other half of the village use the Darvel transmitter- we cannot because we are on the wrong side of the hill!! Any help you can give us all would be much appreciated.

Many thanks

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Wednesday, 18 January 2023
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Chris.SE
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9:42 PM

John reid:

There isn't currently any reports of any outage, or power cut or Planned Engineering.
If there was a brief interruption, it may have gone unreported.
If you retuned at all when you had no signal or badly pixellated pictures it may have just cleared the correct tuning. If so, try manual retuning on UHF channels C32, C34 (& C35 if you have HD).

Other than that, check that your aerial looks intact and is still pointing in the correct direction and that the downlead is secure and not flapping in the wind. Check all your coax connections behind the TV etc.
Have you altered/changed anything about with your equipment recently? Do you have any distribution amp/splitter etc.?

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