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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.

This transmitter has no current reported problems

The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Selkirk (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmitter.

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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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 H max
C32 (562.0MHz)522mDTG-10,000W
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
 H max
C34- (577.8MHz)522mDTG-10,000W
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
 H max
C35 (586.0MHz)522mDTG-10,000W
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

COM4
SDN
 H -3dB
C33 (570.0MHz)522mDTG-85,000W
Channel icons
20 U&Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 U&Dave ja vu, 58 ITV3 +1, 59 ITV4 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 91 WildEarth, 93 ITVBe +1, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 251 Al Jazeera English, 255 FRANCE 24 (in English), 265 Rok Sky +1, plus 29 others

COM5
ArqA
 H -3dB
C36 (594.0MHz)522mDTG-85,000W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 U&Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 U&Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 &UYesterday +1, 76 That's TV 2 MCR, 233 Sky News, plus 13 others

COM6
ArqB
 H -3dB
C48- (689.8MHz)522mDTG-85,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 U&W, 27 U&Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 63 GREAT! romance mix, 73 HobbyMaker, 75 That's 90s, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 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?

regional news image
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 100km west-northwest (291°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
regional news image
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?

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

1961-80s1984-971997-981998-20082008-132013-182013-1714 Aug 2019
VHFC/D EC/D EC/D EC/D EC/D E TC/D E TK T
C13ITVwaves
C32BBCA
C33SDN
C34D3+4
C35BBCB
C36ArqA
C48ArqB
C50tv_off BBCABBCA
C52tv_offC5wavesC5waves
C53tv_offArqAArqAArqA
C55tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBCBBBCBBBCB
C57tv_offSDNSDNSDN
C59tv_offITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves-D3+4-D3+4-D3+4
C60tv_off -ArqB-ArqB
C62BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCA
C65C4wavesC4wavesC4waves

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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

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.

Comments
Thursday, 8 January 2015
Dave Lindsay
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

7:31 PM

Desmond kerr: This sounds like interference, which a battery-powered AM radio might locate. It could potentially be in a neighbouring property.

Things like the motor in the three-way port valve in your central heating/hot water system could be a culprit, for example.

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Dave Lindsay's 5,724 posts GB flag
Thursday, 26 March 2015
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Jim Carnie
8:19 PM
Duns

Postcode TD11 3EW
Dear Sir / Madam,
I live in Duns and according to your map Duns is out with all the coloured areas (which I can testify due to the low TV and pathetic digital radio signal strengths) so are you planning on improving the signal levels or must we put up with a 2nd rate service. I would like to point out that Duns is the 2nd largest town in Berwickshire.

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Dave Lindsay
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

8:42 PM

Jim Carnie: There are many parts of the country which don't have line-of-sight to the transmitter and as a result reception is variable. I'm not aware of any plans to boost the power some changes were made to some transmitters at switchover but Selkirk wasn't one of them.

At your location there would appear to be clear line-of-sight to Chatton, although as you probably know, this is a BBC North East & Cumbria/ITV Tyne Tees transmitter. So you are probably served well with TV, but not the preferred region.

Your difficulty with Selkirk is caused by terrain obstruction from about 4 miles to 6 miles out from your location:


Terrain between ( m a.g.l.) and (antenna m a.g.l.) - Optimising UK DTT Freeview and Radio aerial location


On some of those high points are trees which could certainly affect the signal and mean it varies by time and weather.

And looking on StreetView, there are some big trees near to some of the houses which could further hamper efforts.

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Dave Lindsay's 5,724 posts GB flag
Monday, 12 December 2016
D
Diane
2:32 PM

For over a month tv signal has been really poor .just want to watch tv without it breaking up and chirping like a bird !

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StevensOnln1
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

3:05 PM

Diane: Have you checked all the cables and connections or done anything else to try and improve things? Please provide a postcode so we can see where you are in relation to the transmitter.

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StevensOnln1's 3,675 posts GB flag
Saturday, 4 February 2017
M
Martin
9:07 AM

Whilst MikeP has been telling me on the Selkirk DAB section that I don't know anything about B700 retuning, this has been brewing for a while, and seems now to be official so I can reveal it.

http://www.digitaluk.co.u….pdf

Shoots down the post B700 allocations shown here doesn't it MIkeP. Selikirk is another site using 32/33/34/35/36/48.

But I suspect you still don't want to believe me eh MikeP....?


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MikeP
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

8:01 PM

Martin:

Only now that your have revealed your source can we consider whether anything you have said has any validity or substance. Without the source being stated we cannot accept as true anything purporting to any future changes. Please do not misrepresent my position. All I needed was knowledge, and hence access, to you source.



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MikeP's 3,056 posts GB flag
Sunday, 5 February 2017
M
Martin
8:31 AM

As I've said on the other thread, you're welcome to carry on in your stubborn ignorance, I've tried to help and all you can do is bleat on that my information is unreliable and untrustworthy.

You won't hear from me again.

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MikeP
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

9:32 PM

Martin:

You must understand that technical and scientific people do not work on assumptions but need 'chapter and verse'. As you did not give any indictaion until yesterday what the source of your information was we could not give it any credence until it had been proven correct, or otherwise. In other words we needed proof.



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MikeP's 3,056 posts GB flag
Wednesday, 15 February 2017
D
Dennis Fisher
12:53 PM
Jedburgh

TD8 6UP. loft-based aerial.

We recieve good signals of all freeview channels, including HD. However, our digital HDD recorder stutters the playback of the independant channels? All BBC channel recording play back perfectly, but recordings from channels ITV, Channel 4, Film 4 all stutter on playback.
Any suggestions about where I should begin checking for errors?
Could this be a problem with the box reading certain frequencies?
Any thoughts on what checks can I carry out?
Thanks.

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