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Freeview Light on the Lochwinnoch (Renfrewshire, Scotland) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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The symbol shows the location of the Lochwinnoch (Renfrewshire, Scotland) transmitter which serves 5,400 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 Lochwinnoch (Renfrewshire, Scotland) mast?

Lochwinnoch transmitter - Lochwinnoch transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 16/09/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name

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Which Freeview channels does the Lochwinnoch 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.

Mux	H/V	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	H max	C33 (570.0MHz)	149m	DTG-	17W
	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	C36 (594.0MHz)	149m	DTG-	17W
	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),
PSB3 BBCB	H max	C48 (690.0MHz)	149m	DTG-	17W
	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 66 TBN UK,

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

The Lochwinnoch (Renfrewshire, 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, GREAT! action, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance, 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, TCC, 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 Lochwinnoch transmitter?

BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 24km east-northeast (73°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.

STV News 1.3m homes 4.8%
from Glasgow G51 1PQ, 24km east-northeast (73°)
to STV Central (Glasgow) region - 94 masts.

How will the Lochwinnoch (Renfrewshire, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?

	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2011	2011-13	5 Sep 2018
	C/D E	C/D E	C/D E	C/D E T	K T
C33					BBCA
C36					D3+4
C48					BBCB
C53_{tv_off}	C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves	BBCB
C57_{tv_off}	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	D3+4
C60_{tv_off}	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	BBCA
C63	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves

_{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 1-4	86W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-7dB) 17W

Local transmitter maps

Lochwinnoch Freeview Darvel TV region BBC Scotland STV Central (Glasgow micro region)

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Darvel transmitter area

Aug 1957-Jun 1997	Scottish Television
Jun 1997-Dec 2014	STV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Lochwinnoch 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.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

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Wednesday, 14 January 2015

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4:32 AM

- : BBC Digital TV Off Air from 23:54 on 12 Jan to 00:23 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 23:54 on 12 Jan to 00:23 yesterday. [BBC]

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Thursday, 15 January 2015

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4:32 AM

- : BBC Digital TV Off Air from 23:54 on 12 Jan to 00:23 on 13 Jan, HD Digital TV Off Air from 23:54 on 12 Jan to 00:23 on 13 Jan. [BBC]

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Monday, 17 August 2015

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9:09 AM

- RelayPossible service interruptions [DUK]

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Thursday, 20 August 2015

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10:32 AM

- : BBC Digital TV Off Air from 10:58 yesterday to 11:21 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 11:00 yesterday to 11:21 yesterday. [BBC] RelayPossible service interruptions [DUK]

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Friday, 21 August 2015

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- : BBC Digital TV Off Air from 10:58 on 19 Aug to 11:21 on 19 Aug, HD Digital TV Off Air from 11:00 on 19 Aug to 11:21 on 19 Aug. [BBC] RelayPossible service interruptions [DUK]

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Monday, 2 November 2015

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4:32 AM

- : BBC Digital TV Reduced from 21:03 yesterday to 21:36 yesterday, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 21:04 yesterday to 21:25 yesterday, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 23:40 yesterday to 01:06 today. [BBC]

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- : BBC Digital TV Reduced from 21:03 yesterday to 21:36 yesterday, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 23:40 yesterday to 01:06 today, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 21:04 yesterday to 21:25 yesterday. [BBC]

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Tuesday, 3 November 2015

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4:32 AM

- : BBC Digital TV Reduced from 21:03 on 01 Nov to 21:36 on 01 Nov, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 23:40 on 01 Nov to 01:06 yesterday, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 21:04 on 01 Nov to 21:25 on 01 Nov. [BBC]

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- : BBC Digital TV Reduced from 21:03 on 01 Nov to 21:36 on 01 Nov, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 21:04 on 01 Nov to 21:25 on 01 Nov, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 23:40 on 01 Nov to 01:06 yesterday. [BBC]

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Wednesday, 4 November 2015

Transmitter engineering

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7:32 AM

- : BBC Digital TV Reduced from 21:03 on 01 Nov to 21:36 on 01 Nov, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 23:40 on 01 Nov to 01:06 on 02 Nov, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 21:04 on 01 Nov to 21:25 on 01 Nov. [BBC]

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