Full Freeview on the Angus (Dundee City, Scotland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Angus (Dundee City, Scotland) transmitter which serves 130,000 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 Angus (Dundee City, Scotland) mast?
Angus transmitter - Angus transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 11/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering 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)
Which Freeview channels does the Angus 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)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Angus transmitter?
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 112km southwest (228°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
STV News 0.2m homes 0.8%
from Dundee DD1 4QB, 11km south (177°)
to STV North (Dundee) region - 24 masts.
Are there any self-help relays?
| Glen Cova A | Active deflector | 40 km N of Dundee | |
| Glen Cova B | Active deflector |
How will the Angus (Dundee City, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1965-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2010 | 2010-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 27 Nov 2019 | ||
| VHF | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | W T | W T | ||
| C11 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C31 | com7 | com7 | |||||||
| C33 | SDN | ||||||||
| C34 | _local | ||||||||
| C36 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C37 | com8 | com8 | |||||||
| C39 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C42 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C45 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C48 | _local | _local | _local | ArqB | |||||
| C49tv_off | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C53tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||
| C54tv_off | SDN | SDN | SDN | ||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off | ||||||||
| C57tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||
| C58tv_off | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ||||||
| C60tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -BBCA | -BBCA | ||||
| C61 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C63 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
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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 4 Aug 10 and 18 Aug 10.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | 20kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-3dB) 10kW | |
| com7 | (-6dB) 5kW | |
| com8 | (-6.1dB) 4.9kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-7dB) 4kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-10dB) 2kW | |
| Analogue 1-4 | (-23dB) 100W |
Local transmitter maps
Angus Freeview Angus DAB Angus AM/FM 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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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldFriday, 29 November 2019
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Chris.SE12:23 AM
Hong Kong Bill:
Yes, checking for RF outputs from Sky boxes, other Freeview boxes, games devices etc. is something I should have mentioned on a few occasions. I was reminded of that after re-reading some posts and my replies but especially J.P.Ashby's post where he's using a Freeview box with an old analogue TV, but somehow I got sidetracked and I never got back to post comment about that thought. Glad you've mentioned it.
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Sunday, 1 December 2019
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Doug Morrison3:09 PM
Have retuned Freeview as requested on the 27th November and got to the end of the update but there is no sky news. Have tried all the searches etc but nothing. All other channels okay. Sky news used to be on channel 233 and a search on the web says it should now be on channel 132 but not on my Panasonic tv's. anybody else experiencing this?
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Richard Fielden6:03 PM
Yateley
Doug Morrison: We are in Yateley using Hanington transmitter and sometime last week we lost Sky News on 233. Further investigation shows we no longer seem to be receiving ARQA, ARQB or SDN channels. Main BBC and ITV ones ok including HDTV. Would like to know if this has happened to anyone else, or could bad weather have affected aerial such that only weaker signals lost? It is the same on our TV and our talktalk freeview box.
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Chris.SE7:26 PM
Doug Morrison:
I don't know where you found that information but it was inaccurate. See Channel listings | Freeview for a list of channels, their LCNs and which multiplex they are on.
Sky News is still at LCN 233.
It's not uncommon that problems like this occur and it's often caused by the set's memory needing clearing. This usually achieved by unplugging the aerial and doing an automatic retune. This should clear all previous tuning as no channels will be found. Then plug the aerial back in and do a further retune either automatic or manual on the UHF channels for you transmitter. This should restore all multiplexes and all the correct channels in the correct LCNs.
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Chris.SE8:18 PM
Richard Fielden:
There have been no major changes at the Hannington transmitter since April 2018, except that the Local multiplex had a doubling in power to 10kW on the 24th July this year.
As you will see from the Hannington transmitter page there aren't a number of people posting with similar issues.
Transmitters do periodically have Planned Maintenance, but the transmitter doesn't appear to have been off-air recently and the BBC haven't recorded any transmitter faults in the last 5 days. It is still possible that there might have been some sort of interruption to your signals which as you suggest could be caused by a fault on your own aerial system, or for some reason you have become tuned to a different transmitter which either doesn't transmit the COMs 4-6 multiplexes or signal is much weaker. You may be in a marginal reception area for Hannington, but whichever of those possibilities may be the case, we need a full postcode to see what the Freeview Detailed Coverage Checker is predicting for your location.
It's unusual for someone to lose just COM multiplexes due to an aerial or cabling fault but it is possible depending on signal strength as problematic connections, water ingress etc. can seem to affect reception of just an individual or several multiplexes.
I suggest you approach this as follows - check all your coax plugs, connections, flyleads etc, unplug connectors check for corrosion or other problems and reconnect them. See what signal strengths and quality you are getting for the multiplexes shown in your TV's tuning section, this might indicate problems with your installation. Also check that your downlead looks undamaged and that your aerial seems intact and pointing in the correct direction.
Then unplug the aerial and do a full automatic retune, this will clear the memory as no channels will be found. Plug the aerial back in and do a further retune.
If this has not restored all your channels, post back with that full postcode so we can look at which transmitters and multiplexes might be receivable at your location, this will help to consider what is happening.
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Friday, 6 December 2019
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Shaun1:41 PM
Dundee
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Transmitter has changed for Dundee last week, picture and digital service was fine after retune.
However this week signal has gone to analog with no digital service after retune.
Signal information bit error level is high and no signal strength.
Indoor aerial has been fine in past.
Auto tuned this morning and I got a good signal and picture but tried later and bit error level is high again
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Richard Fielden6:29 PM
Yateley
Richard Fielden: Thankyou for your comments re-my problems with Hanington which have helped. Having tried another downlink from my splitter it points to a poor connection somewhere in the previous downlink. Because the com mux s are at a lower power than the big boys I think they just can't break through: no problem at all with even the HD channel signal though which misled me to blame the transmitter. On the other downlink although the power and quality is somewhat erratic it does not seem to affect the TV picture - clever this digital stuff!
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Saturday, 7 December 2019
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Chris.SE2:45 AM
Shaun:
The Angus transmitter has had Planned Engineering this week with "Possible service interruptions". It's usually not a good idea to retune when you have no signal, you just lose the correctly tuned channels.
As you are close to the transmitter and not had previous problems with your indoor aerial, then if you now seem to have all your channels, signals may continue to vary for as long as the engineering continues.
If you are missing channels, when the signals look good on the multiplexes that you do have, unplug the aerial and do an automatic retune to clear memory of previous tuning, plug the aerial back in and do the retune again.
From recent experience, in practice, "Possible service interruptions" seems to include "weak signal" as well.
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Chris.SE3:04 AM
Richard Fielden:
Although I can't advise what your predicted reception might be without a full postcode, you are well within the coverage area for Hannington. Even though the COM multiplexes are half the power of the PSBs, you should have no trouble receiving them. As you've discovered things like splitters etc. should also be checked. Flyleads are also a common problem. Always try swapping ports on splitters etc. and swap flyleads about to try and eliminate things and narrow the source of the problems.
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Monday, 17 August 2020
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Steve 1:07 PM
Hi, for some time now, stations on channel 36 from the Angus transmitter have been poor or non existent at various times of the day. No other stations are affected. Other people in my village are having similar problems. Obviously I have reset my tv to re-scan all channels, sometimes this results in no stations found on channel 36. This has never been a problem before.
Something must have changed at the Angus transmitter, but they say everything is working correctly.
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