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The symbol shows the location of the Lairg (Highland, Scotland) transmitter which serves less than 500 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 Lairg (Highland, Scotland) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Lairg 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
C44 (658.0MHz)166mDTG-3W
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
C41+ (634.2MHz)166mDTG-3W
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), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C47 (682.0MHz)166mDTG-3W
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 Lairg (Highland, 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 Lairg transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 241km south (181°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
regional news image
STV News 0.4m homes 1.5%
from Aberdeen AB12 3QH, 171km southeast (126°)
to STV North (Aberdeen) region - 76 masts.

How will the Lairg (Highland, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20102010-1330 Sep 2017-
B E TB E TB E TB E K TB E K T
C41ITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves+D3+4D3+4
C44BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCA
C47C4wavesC4wavesC4wavesBBCBBBCB
C51tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves

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 Sep 10 and 22 Sep 10.

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

Analogue 1-4 13W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 2.6W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Knock More 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. Lairg 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
Saturday, 10 December 2011
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Alan
2:56 PM

Transmitter engineering: since you shut down the signal for engineering on the 09/12/11 and switched back on again on the 10/12/11 I have lost a lot of station that I used to get.
Will they come back ?
I live in Lairg the transmitter is at Ord Hill

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Alan's 1 post GB flag
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
Briantist
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

2:04 PM

Alan: Can you please provide some more details about the missing channels?

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Saturday, 20 January 2024
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Clive
3:43 PM
Lairg

IV27 4ED
Unable to get a terrestrial digital signal for some weeks now.
Indoor [roof space] aerial. Checked beam heading, aerial connections and all socket connections.
Is the Lairg transmitter still emitting a terrestrial tv signal?
TVs now showing no signal

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Chris.SE
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

4:03 PM

Clive:

Hello Clive. The BBC aren't reporting any problems with the transmitter (nor in the last 5 days) so it's presumably on air - unless you've been experiencing lots of recent power cuts and have one now!
You should get a good signal from Lairg although it may not be that strong.
I assume you've got your aerial with its rods (or squashed Xs) vertical.

If you retuned at all at some point in the previous weeks when you had no signal, that wasn't a good idea as it will probably have cleared your correct tuning.
Check in the TV Tuning section that you are tuned to Lairg's UHF channels - C41, C47 & C44, if not then do a retune.

If you still have a problem, post back with any additional info you can think of, do your immediate neighbours also have a problem?

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Chris.SE's 4,346 posts GB flag
Wednesday, 9 October 2024
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_satisfiedGold

2:20 PM

LAIRG transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to a fault from 9 Oct 11:07 until 9 Oct 11:14. . [BBC]

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