Freeview Light on the Lochwinnoch (Renfrewshire, Scotland) transmitter
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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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Lochwinnoch (Renfrewshire, Scotland) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
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, 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 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), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| 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 | |||||
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, 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 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 | ||||||||
| C53tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | |||||
| C57tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | |||||
| C60tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | |||||
| C63 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
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
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Friday, 1 June 2018
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Ken Johnson8:58 PM
After a disastrous Wednesday night on which neither program we had set to record starting at 21.00 recorded anything watchable, Thursday was brilliant. All channels working well. Tonight, HD channels are OK as usual, but on standard definition it is a different story. Channels 1 and 2 are fine, with signal strengths of 76% and quality of 80% steady.
On channels 3, 4 and 5 however there are no pictures, Not broken, zilch. Signal strength on these channels is still around 75% but quality fluctuates rapidly between 10% and 50% As MikeB suggested, freesat is looking tempting. But as a former physicist, I am very curious as to what can cause such variations between different evenings.
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Sunday, 28 October 2018
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Ian Young9:11 AM
Been having poor signal quality recently, tried a rescan and found 2 new digital channels in area CH 33 (Multiplex TSID 107c,ONID233a) and CH 36 (Multiplex TSID2011,ONID233a). Can someone throw any light on where I am picking these up from. Signal strength is good with little bit errors.
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MikeP
10:44 AM
10:44 AM
Ian Young:
the best source is the Digital UK Coverage Checker at Digital UK - Coverage checker Put in your post code and house number. Then scroll down to see which transmitters are receivable at your location and scroll down again to look at the channels used by those transmitters.
The listings also give the compass directions for the available transmitters so you should check that your aerial is pointing correctly to the preferred transmitter. Note that aerials have 'side lobes' that also receive signals but not as strongly as tha main direction, so one of the other possible transmitters may be on a bearing to be received via a side lobe.
You should also check the signal strengths of all your multiplexes as that is more important than the quality reported by the TV. You ideally need betyween 60% and 85% as too little signal as well as too much sigfnal; can cause reception problems, see the article 'Too much of a good thing' on this website at https://ukfree.tv/article…d_f.
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Tuesday, 2 March 2021
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Ken Johnsn10:47 PM
Lochwinnoch transmitter has been off tonight since about 22.35 It is still off right now at 22.45 and I am about to turn off the TV. All available channels seem to be affected according to a sample I took across the range including Standard and HD channels. Update, it came back on at 22.46.
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Wednesday, 3 March 2021
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Chris.SE4:07 AM
Ken Johnsn:
The Lochwinnoch transmitter is a relay of the Darvel main transmitter which is currently listed for Planned Engineering. It's possible that work may have caused the interruption as I can find no fault listed at this time.
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Wednesday, 11 December 2024
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Kenneth Johnson 5:33 PM
BBC 1 and BBC 2 went off at 17.16 today on both standard definition and high definition. Sty on chanels 3 and 103 also off. "No signal" reported. Channels 4 and 104 both working but signal on channel 4 prone to freezing.
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Transmitter engineering
8:20 PM
8:20 PM
LOCHWINNOCH transmitter - Freeview: Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 11 Dec 18:50. . [BBC]
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Chris.SE9:52 PM
Kenneth Johnson :
As you can see from he post following yours, the BBC are reporting problems due to current (tropospheric) weather conditions. In addition to which, this transmitter is a relay of the Darvel main transmitter which is having Planned Engineering.
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Kenneth Johnson 10:28 PM
I understand what you mean Chris. The signal failures look more like engineering work with periodic dropouts followed by broken signal for a few seconds, loss of signal for a short time then restoration.
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