Freeview Light on the Strathblane (Stirling, Scotland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Strathblane (Stirling, Scotland) transmitter which serves 900 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 Strathblane (Stirling, 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 Strathblane (Stirling, 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 Strathblane 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 | C27 (522.0MHz) | 134m | DTG- | 2W |
 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 | C24 (498.0MHz) | 134m | DTG- | 2W |
 3 STV (SD) (STV Central (Glasgow 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 | C21+ (474.2MHz) | 134m | DTG- | 2W |
 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 Strathblane (Stirling, 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 Strathblane transmitter?
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 14km south (175°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
STV News 1.3m homes 4.8%
from Glasgow G51 1PQ, 14km south (173°)
to STV Central (Glasgow) region - 94 masts.
How will the Strathblane (Stirling, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 30 Sep 2018- | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | |||||
| C21 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | +BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C24 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C27 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C31 | 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 8 Jun 11 and 22 Jun 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 6W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-4.8dB) 2W |
Local transmitter maps
Strathblane Freeview Black Hill TV region BBC Scotland STV Central (Glasgow micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Black Hill transmitter area
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Tuesday, 12 July 2011
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Ian Young8:56 AM
Glasgow
Will I ever get the full range of channels on free-view at G63 9JP? I.e. Dave etc.
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Mike Dimmick12:03 PM
Ian Young: All we can say is that the commercial multiplexes have no plans to extend services to any more transmitters. They were asked, in the planning stages, and they turned it down, saying it was too expensive.
Digital UK's trade predictor reckons that you could get a signal from Black Hill with the right aerial, but the reliability is expected to be poor. You might manage reliable service with a larger-than-usual aerial. However, the cost of installation might mean it's better to investigate satellite.
Dave is a subscription channel on satellite, so you'd have to pay Sky at least £19.50 per month. Virgin Media cable is not available in your area.
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Sunday, 17 July 2011
Tuesday, 6 December 2022
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Alister Bottomley3:08 PM
I use Channels 36 & 39 for analogue use and they have suddenly experienced considerable interference. Can you explain what is happening?
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Wednesday, 7 December 2022
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Chris.SE1:17 AM
Alister Bottomley:
Well this certainly is a strange one. There's no transmitter faults that I can find, so it's not interference coming from there. Those two channels are not used by any of the other transmitters nearest to you nor do they have any reported faults.
Have you moved or changed any equipment?
Is the equipment that you have using the channels linked by coax cable or RF.?
Is reception of Freeview affected in anyway, has the signal strength or quality figures reduced?
If your equipment is linked by coax cable then it must be some very strong very local interference. As Analogue will be far more susceptible it suggests maybe some electric equipment operating, maybe something with a motor or maybe some discharge lighting - fluorescent, high pressure sodium, even LED (including street lights) very nearby.
Make sure you don't have any HDMI leads running close to your aerial and coax flyleads. HDMI has been known to cause interference.
If the equipment is RF linked then there are additional possibilities. Has any work taken place recently on any nearby mobile phone masts? Have you ever received a postcard from restoretv.uk ?
There has recently been some very variable and intermittent weather related Tropospheric Ducting which can cause signals from more distant transmitter to travel a lot further.
IAs far as more local transmitters go, in addition to the UHF channels used by Strathblane, the nearest transmitters to you use C32,C34,C35, C40,C41,C43,C44,C46,&C47.
No transmitters anywhere now use anything above C48.
If the interference seems restricted to C36 & C39 you could try channels well above C49 is your equipment will allow. If you are finding interference up there as well, it could be due to new services from a close by mobile phone mast.
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