Full Freeview on the Selkirk (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Selkirk (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmitter which serves 24,000 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 Selkirk (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) mast?
Selkirk transmitter - Selkirk transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 18/11/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels 
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Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Selkirk (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
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 Selkirk 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.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Selkirk (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
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 Selkirk transmitter?
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 100km west-northwest (291°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
ITV Lookaround 0.1m homes 0.4%
from Carlisle CA1 3NT, 75km south (187°)
to ITV Border Scotland region - 27 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with Tyne Tees
Are there any self-help relays?
| Sourhope | Active deflector | Nr Yetholm | 6 homes |
How will the Selkirk (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1961-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2008 | 2008-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 14 Aug 2019 | ||
| VHF | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | C/D E T | K T | ||
| C13 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C32 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C33 | SDN | ||||||||
| C34 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C35 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C36 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C48 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | BBCA | BBCA | |||||||
| C52tv_off | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C53tv_off | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ||||||
| C55tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||
| C57tv_off | SDN | SDN | SDN | ||||||
| C59tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | |||
| C60tv_off | -ArqB | -ArqB | |||||||
| C62 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | |||||
| C65 | 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 6 Nov 08 and 20 Nov 08.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-5 | 50kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 10kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 5kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-12.2dB) 3kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-20dB) 500W |
Local transmitter maps
Selkirk Freeview Selkirk DAB Selkirk AM/FM Selkirk TV region BBC Scotland Border (Scotland)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Selkirk transmitter area
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Thursday, 26 January 2012
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Malcolm5:35 PM
When I switch on my Toshiba TV a box appears on those channels broadcasting on the PSB1 multiplext asking me to perform a software upgrade. When I try this, I am told that no upgrades are available. In any case, the TV is set to be automatically upgraded. It is annoying to have to delete this dialogue box every time before watching a programme.Is there any advice available to fix this problem? I can see the transmitter from my house, and I have a loft aerial.
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Malcolm5:38 PM
Melrose
Sorry, forgot to say that the transmitter is the Selkirk one, and my post code is TD6 0SZ
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Malcolm's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jb385:56 PM
Malcolm: Have a look in your Toshiba's set up menu and you will most likely see an option to disable these update warnings, if you cant see it mentioned anywhere give an update on the model number of the set and it can be checked on.
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jb386:02 PM
Malcolm: Just to add that, that although you have got it set for automatic upgrades the circuitry used by some brands doesnt have the ability to know the message doesnt apply, this being why when software upgrades are being transmitted the message springs up.
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Malcolm7:37 PM
Thanks. No sign of that option to disable on the set up menu. The set is Toshiba 26WLT66 ( 4 to 5 years old.
The problem is just on those channels grouped together on the transmitter (BBC1,2 News Channel, Alba, CBeebies etc.) It does not appear on the other groups (ITV etc). Re your second message about auto upgrades - will the message eventually go away once the upgrades are all finally transmitted.
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jb388:35 PM
Malcolm: As regards to the former, its basically because equipment upgrades are always broadcast on the BBC multiplex and not the commercial ones, and as far as the latter question is concerned yes! they will do dependant on the arrangements that have been made with the equipment manufacturers.
I will have a check on your model and give an update, possibly later on failing that tomorrow.
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Friday, 27 January 2012
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jb386:26 PM
Malcolm: You may have already found it by now, but the auto-upgrade ON/OFF facility is illustrated on page 29 of the WLT66 series user manual under the "features" heading.
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Saturday, 28 January 2012
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Malcolm5:21 PM
jb. Many thanks for your help which seems to have sorted out the problem.
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Monday, 29 October 2012
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Rod5:05 PM
Berwick-upon-tweed
Since the alterations recently despite retuning we find that the freeview epg programme info for ITV channels is invariably showing "No information"
If we then tune to one of the channels the programme info then appears
Any ideas why it is not there all the time?
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Rod's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Rod: Confirm that your receiver is tuned to the Selkirk transmitter for ITV channels. The other transmitter that it might have tuned to at your location is Chatton, although this broadcasts ITV Tyne Tees instead.
Bring up the signal strength screen whilst on ITV1 and see whether it is tuned to UHF channel 59 which that of Selkirk or channel 42 which that of Chatton.
If it turns out that it is tuned to Chatton, then run the automatic tuning scan through with the aerial unplugged up until 55% (or until it gets past C47 if it gives channel numbers during the scan). This will have the aerial unplugged whilst it scans channels used by Chatton, but plugged in for those of Selkirk. If there is a setting in the menu something to the effect of "automatic channel update", then you may benefit from turning this off if it does a retune when unattended as a result of this being turned on. If there is no such setting, then you will have to hope that it isn't one of those devices that retunes when it feels like it, leaving the user with the incorrect channels.
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