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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.

Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Millburn Muir (West Dunbartonshire, Scotland) mast?

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 Digital tick


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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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
C29 (538.0MHz)210mDTG-50W
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
C31 (554.0MHz)210mDTG-50W
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
C37 (602.0MHz)210mDTG-50W
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 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?

regional news image
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 24km southeast (127°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
regional news image
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-80s1984-971997-981998-20112011-135 Sep 2018
VHFB E TB E TB E TB E K TA K T
C1BBCtvwaves
C29BBCA
C31D3+4
C37BBCB
C39BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBCB
C42ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesBBCA
C45C5wavesC5wavesD3+4
C49tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4waves
C52tv_offBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves

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

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. Millburn Muir 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, 12 January 2024
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Steve Donaldson
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1:53 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.SE
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4:57 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
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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
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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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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
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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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