Freeview Light on the Millburn Muir (West Dunbartonshire, Scotland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Millburn Muir (West Dunbartonshire, Scotland) transmitter which serves 20,000 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 Millburn Muir (West Dunbartonshire, 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 Millburn Muir (West Dunbartonshire, 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 Millburn Muir 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 | V max | C29 (538.0MHz) | 210m | DTG- | 50W |
 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 | C31 (554.0MHz) | 210m | DTG- | 50W |
 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 | C37 (602.0MHz) | 210m | DTG- | 50W |
 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 Millburn Muir (West Dunbartonshire, 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 Millburn Muir transmitter?
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 24km southeast (127°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
STV News 1.3m homes 4.8%
from Glasgow G51 1PQ, 24km southeast (127°)
to STV Central (Glasgow) region - 94 masts.
How will the Millburn Muir (West Dunbartonshire, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 5 Sep 2018 | ||||
| VHF | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E K T | A K T | ||||
| C1 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C29 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C31 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C37 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C39 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | |||||
| C42 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | |||||
| C45 | C5waves | C5waves | D3+4 | ||||||
| C49tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C52tv_off | 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 1-5 | 250W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 50W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Darvel transmitter area
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Friday, 12 January 2024
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Steve Donaldson1:53 PM
jimmy: Millburn Muir is a TV relay of Darvel. Darvel is current listed as having engineering works by Freeview, with the possible effect 'Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels':
Planned engineering works | Freeview
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Chris.SE4:57 PM
jimmy:
The "usual" retune is a BIG mistake! You were no doubt correctly tuned to start with.
You cannot tune to a signal that is not there or cannot be decoded. The usual result is it clears your correct tuning or possibly tune you to weak signals from another transmitter that disappear as the weather changes.
It doesn't matter whether No signal, badly pixellated pictures, or broken sound is due to Engineering, a fault on your own aerial system or weather conditions, if you were correctly tuned do NOT retune. Having done so you'd need to repeat retune when signals are normal and you may have to try several times as you can't be certain when that might be.
However, the BBC have reported an issue for Milburn Muir
From 1:59am to 2:33am on 12th Jan 2024 BBC B HD and
From 2:13pm to 3:48pm on 12th Jan 2024 BBC B HD
and there's a general reception warning as well
High pressure impacting TV & Radio services across large parts of the UK - 11 January 2024 | Help receiving TV and radio
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Wednesday, 9 October 2024
Transmitter engineering
2:20 PM
2:20 PM
MILLBURN MUIR transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to essential engineering from 9 Oct 10:45 until 9 Oct 10:59. . [BBC]
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Thursday, 17 October 2024
Transmitter engineering
11:20 AM
11:20 AM
MILLBURN MUIR transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to essential engineering from 17 Oct 09:03. . FM: Off the air due to essential engineering from 17 Oct 09:03. . [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
5:20 PM
5:20 PM
MILLBURN MUIR transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to essential engineering from 17 Oct 09:03 until 17 Oct 14:04. . FM: Off the air due to essential engineering from 17 Oct 09:03 until 17 Oct 14:04. . [BBC]
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Monday, 4 November 2024
Transmitter engineering
10:47 AM
10:47 AM
Millburn Muir transmitter - Millburn Muir transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 04/11/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 11 November 2024
Transmitter engineering
5:10 AM
5:10 AM
Millburn Muir transmitter - Millburn Muir transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 11/11/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]
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Wednesday, 11 December 2024
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jimmy3:36 PM
Just to let people in the Dumbarton area know the fog is disrupting the picture for me at Dumbarton East and in Bellsmyre too picture break up and black screens on all channels all afternoon.
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Chris.SE9:24 PM
jimmy:
Hi again. I'd doubt it's just the fog causing disruption. This transmitter is a relay of Darvel which is listed for Planned Engineering, so this could be the primary cause of the issue.
But in addition to which, the high pressure weather system has brought some strong tropospheric conditions to parts of Scotland, so interference from very distant transmitters is another possibility.
As previously advised, do NOT retune.
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Chris.SE9:46 PM
jimmy:
To add to the above, the BBC are reporting that the current conditions may be affecting the reception.
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