Freeview Light on the Millburn Muir (West Dunbartonshire, Scotland) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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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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Wednesday, 5 August 2020
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Chris.SE3:12 PM
Jimmy:
Millburn Muir is listed for "Planned Engineering" with "Possible service interruptions", so that's probably what happened, and may again!
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Friday, 18 September 2020
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John Watson9:35 PM
Alexandria
Currently all channels are of air is there ant faults with freeview from millburn muir 18/09/2020 (22:24)
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Saturday, 19 September 2020
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jimmy11:00 AM
Yes John all channels off until we went to bed after midnight. Dumbarton east area. 18th sep 2100-0xxxhrs
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Sunday, 20 September 2020
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Chris.SE12:07 AM
jimmy:
John Watson:
There's been a lot of "Tropospheric Ducting" around causing interference, see Effect of tropospheric ducting on Freeview | RTIS for a simplistic explanation.
It's likely to continue on and off for a day or two more.
The BBC are even reporting reception from this transmitter being disrupted by these atmospheric conditions -
From 9:02pm on 18th Sep 2020 to 2:29am on 19th Sep 2020 Weather conditions may be affecting your reception
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Monday, 21 September 2020
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jimmy5:09 PM
Thanks Chris I just newly said to my partner I thought it was "atmospheric" then came on here to see if there was any response and you have confirmed it. Its always good to know that you guys know about it. Thanks for the info!
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John Watson6:56 PM
Alexandria
Thanks Chris & everyone else who posted / informed about Millburn Muir Transmitter, hopefully it improves soon.
Another question I have not related, does anyone know roughly how many people are on ariel only through out Scotland and having to pay full tv license for a vastly reduced service, I'm thinking of having another go at local MP to approach Minister to see if we can get a reduction in fee. Unfortunately no joy the last time I tried, so don't hold out much hope.
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Chris.SE11:19 PM
John Watson:
I doubt you'll even be taken seriously. Indeed the suggestion is more likely to be that you pay more tax so that there can be investment in things that may help reduce the effects that make climate change more severe!
Unfortunately you live in a location that has to be served by a relay transmitter because of the terrain (last time I checked Scotland was quite hilly in places!). The services you don't get are those run by commercial operators (not funded by the licence fee). They do not consider it worth the investment in transmission equipment because of the small population served by the transmitter.
If you want more services then consider Freesat - your set may have a built in Freesat tuner so all you'd need is Dish and LNB.
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Friday, 23 July 2021
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jimmy3:11 AM
Dumbarton
No signal 4am G82 1RH area.
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jimmy smith3:14 AM
Dumbarton
Lost signal all channels 4am Dumbarton area G82 1RH
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