Full Freeview on the Selkirk (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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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 02/10/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name

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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.

Mux	H/V	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	H max	C32 (562.0MHz)	522m	DTG-	10,000W
	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	H max	C34- (577.8MHz)	522m	DTG-	10,000W
	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	H max	C35 (586.0MHz)	522m	DTG-	10,000W
	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 66 TBN UK,
COM4 SDN	H -3dB	C33 (570.0MHz)	522m	DTG-8	5,000W
	20 Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 Great! Movies Action, 57 Dave ja vu, 58 ITVBe +1, 59 ITV3 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 CBS Reality, 68 RealityXtra, 78 TCC, 81 Blaze +1, 89 ITV4 +1, 91 WildEarth, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 267 Al Jazeera English, plus 35 others
COM5 ArqA	H -3dB	C36 (594.0MHz)	522m	DTG-8	5,000W
	Smithsonian Channel, 11 Sky Arts, 17 Really, 19 Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 pick, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 Drama +1, 65 That's 60s, 70 Quest +1, 74 Yesterday +1, 75 That's 80s, 233 Sky News, plus 11 others
COM6 ArqB	H -3dB	C48- (689.8MHz)	522m	DTG-8	5,000W
	Quest Red +1, Classic Hits, 12 Quest, 25 W, 27 Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 Great! Movies Christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 61 GREAT! movies +1, 63 Great! Movies Christmas 1, 71 That’s 60s, 73 HobbyMaker, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 83 Together TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 20 others

DTG-8 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	ITV_waves
C32								BBCA
C33								SDN
C34								D3+4
C35								BBCB
C36								ArqA
C48								ArqB
C50_{tv_off}						BBCA	BBCA
C52_{tv_off}			C5_waves	C5_waves
C53_{tv_off}					ArqA	ArqA	ArqA
C55_{tv_off}		BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBCB	BBCB	BBCB
C57_{tv_off}					SDN	SDN	SDN
C59_{tv_off}		ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	-D3+4	-D3+4	-D3+4
C60_{tv_off}						-ArqB	-ArqB
C62		BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBCA
C65		C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves

_{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

Sep 1961-Feb 2004	Border Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014	ITV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

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StevensOnln1

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11:45 PM

Kevin : None of those are funded by your , which is a licence to receive TV in your home and is not a to receive any particular channels. The broadcasters of the channels you mentions have for their own commercial reasons all opted to broadcast their channels with reduced coverage compared to other commercials channels on . All of them are available free to air via on or Sky, without needing a subscription.

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alistair symons
12:50 PM
Kelso

we have very poor when it is windy we live at td5 7eq. we have retuned our tv on march 1.

our reception is via tv mounted. when not windy our reception is perfect. we have a samsung modern tv and we have a BT you view box. worst are bbc1,2, itv1and others, but channels are ok. can you enlighten us to what is happening?

Many thanks Alistair Symons

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alistair symons
12:57 PM
Kelso

we are having problems with our when it is windy. our post code is td5 7eq.

we have a mounted and have a bt your view box the are ok but all bbc channels

are effected when it is windy. we have a modern samsung tv and an excellent reception when it is not windy.

can you please advise.

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MB
1:20 PM

alistair symons: Your is either loose or damaged.

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