Freeview Light on the Tay Bridge (Fife, Scotland) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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The symbol shows the location of the Tay Bridge (Fife, Scotland) transmitter which serves 27,000 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 Tay Bridge (Fife, 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 Tay Bridge (Fife, 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, GREAT! action, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance, 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, TCC, 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 Tay Bridge 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 | C41+ (634.2MHz) | 148m | DTG- | 100W |
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 | C47 (682.0MHz) | 148m | DTG- | 100W |
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), | |||||
PSB3 BBCB | V max | C44 (658.0MHz) | 148m | DTG- | 100W |
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 Tay Bridge (Fife, 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, GREAT! action, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance, 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, TCC, 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 Tay Bridge transmitter?
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 107km southwest (234°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
STV News 0.2m homes 0.8%
from Dundee DD1 4QB, 3km west-northwest (293°)
to STV North (Dundee) region - 24 masts.
Are there any self-help relays?
Dundee | Transposer | Ladywell Avenue | 100 homes |
How will the Tay Bridge (Fife, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?
1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2010 | 2010-13 | 27 Nov 2019 | |||||
B E T | W T | W T | B E T | K T | |||||
C32 | _local | ||||||||
C34 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
C41 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | +BBCA | BBCA | ||||
C44 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
C47 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
C51tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | _local |
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 5 | 4kW | |
Analogue 1-4 | (-9dB) 500W | |
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-16dB) 100W |
Local transmitter maps
Tay Bridge Freeview Tay Bridge DAB Angus TV region BBC Scotland STV North (Dundee micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Angus transmitter area
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Friday, 5 September 2014
Transmitter engineering
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TAY BRIDGE transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 09:10 yesterday to 12:56 yesterday. [BBC]
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Saturday, 6 September 2014
Transmitter engineering
4:33 AM
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TAY BRIDGE transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 09:10 on 04 Sep to 12:56 on 04 Sep. [BBC]
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Monday, 19 January 2015
Transmitter engineering
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TAY BRIDGE transmitter - RelayPossible service interruptions [DUK]
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Wednesday, 2 September 2015
Transmitter engineering
6:44 AM
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TAY BRIDGE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Wrong Region from 03:13 today to 03:22 today, HD Digital TV Wrong Region from 03:13 today to 03:22 today. [BBC]
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Thursday, 3 September 2015
Transmitter engineering
4:32 AM
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TAY BRIDGE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Wrong Region from 03:13 yesterday to 03:22 yesterday, HD Digital TV Wrong Region from 03:13 yesterday to 03:22 yesterday. [BBC]
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Friday, 4 September 2015
Transmitter engineering
4:32 AM
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TAY BRIDGE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Wrong Region from 03:13 on 02 Sep to 03:22 on 02 Sep, HD Digital TV Wrong Region from 03:13 on 02 Sep to 03:22 on 02 Sep. [BBC]
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Tuesday, 9 February 2016
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Liam11:41 PM
Grr so annoying. I've just moved house literally a 4 minute walk up the road and I've ended up with this freeview light transmitter. I've known about this for years but I always thought they would've upgraded it by now. Is there anyway I could get my box to pick up the Angus transmitter? The one that offers full freeview to houses in the next streets from mine? Is there like a cut off line or something? I live closer to the Tay bridge than I do Angus but I've always lived closer to Tay bridge than Angus and never had a problem, honestly can't believe it.
The coverage checkers state that Angus transmitter is my 'alternative' one and that I should get full coverage from this transmitter but unfortunately I'm picking up the crappy one, they should allow you to chose... I'm probably just going to have to get a freesat box or something but yeah this is disappointing.
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Wednesday, 10 February 2016
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KMJ,Derby8:33 PM
Liam: If the coverage checker shows good reception to be possible from both Tay Bridge and Angus the signal available to your tv tuner will be governed by the position/polarisation/orientation and group of the aerial connected to it. Subject to there not being any local obstructions in the signal path, such as trees or tall buildings, reception from Angus will require a group T aerial set for horizontal polarisation and pointing to the Angus mast. Back in the days of analogue transmissions Tay Bridge was the preferred option for viewers who could receive both transmitters as only Tay Bridge radiated Channel 5.
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Tuesday, 16 February 2016
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Irvine Rodger9:40 AM
Hello
With the demise of BBC Three, will its HD slot migrate to BBC4? I hope so!
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Monday, 16 May 2016
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Alan Taylor9:35 AM
I am resident of Tayport a few miles away from the Tay Bridge transmitter at Inverdovat. I have not had any problems with the DVB signal strength until the last 2/3 weeks. Now I am getting intermittent picture break-up, especially on BBC1 and BBC2.
Does anybody know if the Tay Bridge transmitter has undergone any recent changes or is currently operating on reduced output power?
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