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Freeview Light on the New Galloway (Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland) transmitter

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The symbol shows the location of the New Galloway (Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland) transmitter which serves 700 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 New Galloway (Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the New Galloway 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
C26 (514.0MHz)196mDTG-20W
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
C23 (490.0MHz)196mDTG-20W
Channel icons
3 STV (SD) (Border (Scotland)), 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 (Yorkshire Emley Moor), 35 STV+1 (Yorkshire Emley Moor), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C30 (546.0MHz)196mDTG-20W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Scotland, 102 BBC Two HD Scotland, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Granada), 103 STV HD (ITV Granada), 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 New Galloway (Dumfries and Galloway, 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 New Galloway transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 86km north (357°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
regional news image
ITV Lookaround 0.1m homes 0.4%
from Carlisle CA1 3NT, 84km east-southeast (106°)
to ITV Border Scotland region - 27 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with Tyne Tees

How will the New Galloway (Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20092009-1331 Jul 2019
A K TA K TA K TA K TA K T
C23ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C26BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCA
C29C4wavesC4wavesC4wavesBBCB
C30BBCB
C33BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves

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 24 Jun 09 and 22 Jul 09.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4 100W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 20W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Caldbeck Scotland transmitter area

Sep 1961-Feb 2004Border Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. New Galloway 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
Monday, 26 November 2012
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Fiona Smith
7:47 PM

Our post code is DG7. We currently have no signal on Freeview and according to the information above the transmitter in New Galloway is off air. When do you anticipate it coming back on ?

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Tuesday, 19 September 2023
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Gerry Keenan
12:44 PM

Transmitter engineering:
no free view signal here in Ayr yesterday 18th September 2023 and again today. Very brief reception received today but it has now gone again.
Assume Engineering works are underway - correct ?

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Chris.SE
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12:57 PM

Gerry Keenan:

As you've probably seen from the report before your post, there was a fault. However there is nothing currently listed by the BBC or Arqiva. Weather conditions may also have had a temporary impact.
At the time, if you happened to retune when you had no signal or badly pixelated pictures (never advised) it's probably cleared most/all of your correct tuning.

Apart from checking your aerial is still looking intact and pointing correctly and your downlead isn't flapping in the wind, coax connections plugged in correctly with no corrosion etc. then try a manual retune on New Galloway's UHF channels as listed at the top of this page.

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Chris.SE
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1:06 PM

Gerry Keenan:

Having looked at your situation a little more closely, you are highly unlikely to be receiving the New Galloway transmitter in Ayr !!

As you haven't given a full postcode, it's impossible to advise on any issues with your most likely transmitter.
If you are actually receiving from Caldbeck, that is listed for Planned Engineering.

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9:25 PM

Gerry Keenan:

Darvel is the most likely main transmitter for most of Ayr. You may also get Black Hill in some southern parts of Ayr, you could even be getting the Ayr South relay.
All 3 transmitters are listed for Planned Engineering though none have been listed as being off-air recently.

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