Freeview Light on the Pitlochry (Perth and Kinross, Scotland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Pitlochry (Perth and Kinross, Scotland) transmitter which serves 1,800 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 Pitlochry (Perth and Kinross, 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 Pitlochry (Perth and Kinross, 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 Pitlochry 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 | C25 (506.0MHz) | 438m | DTG- | 25W |
 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 | C28 (530.0MHz) | 438m | DTG- | 25W |
 3 STV (SD) (STV North (Dundee 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 | C22 (482.0MHz) | 438m | DTG- | 25W |
 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 Pitlochry (Perth and Kinross, 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 Pitlochry transmitter?
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 98km south-southwest (202°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
STV News 0.2m homes 0.8%
from Dundee DD1 4QB, 55km east-southeast (119°)
to STV North (Dundee) region - 24 masts.
How will the Pitlochry (Perth and Kinross, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2010 | 2010-13 | 31 Dec 2018- | ||||
| VHF | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | ||||
| C1 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C22 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C25 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C28 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C32 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 4 Aug 10 and 18 Aug 10.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 125W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 25W |
Local transmitter maps
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Wednesday, 4 January 2012
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tgmcewan12:12 AM
I had figured Pitlochry transmitter was off, all by myself, but that was more than twelve hours ago. What I'd like to know is why and for how long. It's strange that nowhere in the bbc or here or even in the news is there any mention of the status of this?
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tgmcewan: I would hazard a guess that it was a power failure due to the weather. Obviously where a transmitter is in rural area, then it's going to take a while for an engineer to get there.
See here for a general message:
Radio & Television Investigation Service - High winds effecting TV and Radio reception
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Sunday, 8 December 2013
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Robin D Hastie Smith7:53 PM
Is there a problem with the Pitlochry transmitter?
We are getting no signal for our Freeview??
Thanks.
08/12/13 at 19:52 hours
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Wednesday, 30 August 2017
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Tom McEwan8:11 PM
Pitlochry
BBC channels have vanished in Pitlochry ph16 5hy. No news or bbc4.
Retuned twice 82% signal strength 100% quality.
Hd bbc1 and 2 are transmitting
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Tom's: ...
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StevensOnln111:05 PM
Tom McEwan: Retuning will never fix a problem such as this, as your TV was already correctly tuned. By retuning you have probably deleted some of your channels, leaving you with no way of knowing when the problem has been fixed, other than periodically retuning until the channels return (unless you have another TV that hasn't been retuned).
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Thursday, 7 September 2017
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Robert Currie8:51 AM
Hello
ive got a caravan on River Tilt site Blair Athol P18 5TE
Can you tell me, is this transmitter in Pitlochry servicing Blair Athol??
Last week my reception on TV was poor.
Thanks for your help
Regards
robert
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MikeP
10:53 AM
10:53 AM
Robert Currie:
We are unable to identify your location, the given post code does not bring up any details in the prediction page at Route /extras/404/prediction. failed, sorry. ou can enter your post code there yourself and that will show what transmitter(s) are receiveable at that location.
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