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The symbol shows the location of the Peebles (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmitter which serves 4,500 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 Peebles (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Peebles 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
C28 (530.0MHz)400mDTG-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
C25 (506.0MHz)400mDTG-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),

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C22 (482.0MHz)400mDTG-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 Peebles (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, GREAT! action, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, GREAT! romance, 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, TCC, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, W, Yesterday +1.

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 Peebles transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 70km west-northwest (290°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
regional news image
ITV Lookaround 0.1m homes 0.4%
from Carlisle CA1 3NT, 89km south-southeast (167°)
to ITV Border Scotland region - 27 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with Tyne Tees

How will the Peebles (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20082008-1331 Mar 2017-
A K TA K TA K TA K TA K T
C22BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBCBBBCB
C25ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4D3+4
C28BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCA
C32C4wavesC4wavesC4waves

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 6 Nov 08 and 20 Nov 08.

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 Selkirk 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. Peebles 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
Sunday, 24 October 2021
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Malcolm
4:58 PM

I have lost all my HD channels. Any reason why?

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Chris.SE
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9:15 PM

Malcolm:

Have the channels returned?
I can't find any faults or outages listed for the Peebles Relay Transmitter either by Freeview or the BBC.
Was it a case of the channels disappearing but signal was still present, or did the No Signal message pop-up?
If it was the latter, I hope you didn't retune!

Retuning when you have no signal or badly pixellated pictures will usually just clear the correct tuning. There should be no need to retune these days unless a commercial operator has made some changes to their channels and you'll usually get a pop-up message to that effect.

If you did retune and you haven't got the channels back, you'll need to repeat the retune when signals are normal, you may have to try several times as you won't know when that will be.

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Chris.SE's 4,101 posts GB flag
Sunday, 15 January 2023
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Tim Hayes
10:34 AM

We live in Peebles and are supported by signal from the Peebles relay transmitter. We currently only have signal for BBC1 and BBC2 and no other stations.

Can you check the status of the transmitter signal.

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Tim Hayes
2:38 PM

Tim Hayes:
I suspect that it is the stations in the PSB2 bunch that are missing. Is it possible that there could be a problem with this one group whilst the others are unaffected?

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Chris.SE
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7:03 PM

Tim Hayes:

If you had signals for BBC1 & BBC2, you should also have had BBC News LCN231, Parliament LCN232, CBBC & Cbeebies 201 & 202, as well as Radio stations on LCNs 700-710. If you weren't getting those as well, apart from the possibility of a problem with the transmitter or the feed to it (none have been reported), it could be your set has a problem with memory or tuning. Had you retuned when this problem with ITV etc occurred?

It's never advised to retune when you have no signal or badly pixellated pictures as this usually just clears your correct tuning. If you did this when you lost ITV, C4 and C5 etc (all PSB2) then it might be best to do a full retune.
Unplug the aerial and do an automatic retune. This should clear all existing tuning and memory as no signal should be found. Plug the aerial back in and repeat the automatic retune. Hopefully all the channels will be restored in their correct LCNs.

If you are still missing channels check that your aerial looks intact and is still pointing correctly (rods should be vertical for Peebles), also check all your coax connections in case something is not plugged in correctly. Bad connections etc can sometimes only affect one multiplex.

Does your set have an HD/T2 tuner? If so, are you getting the HD channels on 101-106/108 & 204/205. If you aren't check with neighbours to see if they have the same issue.

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Monday, 16 January 2023
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Chris.SE
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2:31 AM

Tim Hayes:

Update. This could be a problem with the feed to the transmitter as there is a similar problem with the Innerleithen relay transmitter. See that page for details.

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Tuesday, 17 January 2023
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Chris.SE
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12:48 AM

Tim Hayes:

I have spoken to Arqiva who were as much help as a pile of ....., who said speak to Freeview and we all know they say nothing to do with us.
So I've spoken to Channel 4 who will try and get a message through to someone on out-of-hours call (but of course no guarantees!).
So if anyone else wants to try ITV or Channel 5 it might add more grist to the mill.

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5:13 PM

Update - You should now have your content back on PSB2. I've had a call-back from someone I spoke to this afternoon who managed to contact a relevant party at Arqiva and it seems the call to Channel 4 produced a result. Arqiva had a call-out last night. Good news.

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Friday, 1 September 2023
Transmitter engineering
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12:09 PM

Peebles transmitter - Peebles transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 28/08/2023 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]

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Monday, 4 September 2023
Transmitter engineering
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5:09 AM

Peebles transmitter - Peebles transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 04/09/2023 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]

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