Full Freeview on the Black Hill (North Lanarkshire, Scotland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Black Hill (North Lanarkshire, Scotland) transmitter which serves 940,000 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 Black Hill (North Lanarkshire, Scotland) mast?
Black Hill transmitter - Black Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 11/11/2024 Screen may go black 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Black Hill 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Black Hill transmitter?
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 26km west (271°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
STV News 1.3m homes 4.8%
from Glasgow G51 1PQ, 26km west (271°)
to STV Central (Glasgow) region - 94 masts.
Are there any self-help relays?
| Ardtornish A | Transposer | 22 km NW Oban | 15 homes |
| Balquhidder | Transposer | 12 km NW Callander | 42 homes |
| Benmore B | Active deflector | 50 m WNW Glasgow | 7 homes |
| Blair Drummond | Transposer | 5 homes caravan park | |
| Blyth Bridge | Active deflector | 30 km SW Edinburgh | 50 homes |
| Glendaruel | Active deflector | 40 hotel | 40 homes hotel |
| Glendaruel B | Active deflector | 12 homes (second level) |
How will the Black Hill (North Lanarkshire, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1957-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 3 Oct 2018 | ||||
| VHF | B E T | B E T | B E T | E T | W T | ||||
| C10 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C30 | _local | ||||||||
| C32 | com7 | ||||||||
| C35 | com8 | ||||||||
| C37 | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C40 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C41 | +SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C43 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C44 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C46 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C47 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C50tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C51tv_off | LG | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | _local | COM8tv_off |
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 1-5 | 500kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 100kW | |
| com7 | (-10.7dB) 42.9kW | |
| com8 | (-11.1dB) 39.2kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-14dB) 20kW | |
| LG | (-20dB) 5kW |
Local transmitter maps
Black Hill Freeview Black Hill DAB 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, 1 November 2011
Re: offensive (and deleted) message posted here.
There is no ITV2 HD on Freeview. There is no Film4 HD on Freeview, there is no "software update" to magically get Film4 HD on Freeview, it is *exclusive* to Virgin Media - About Film4HD - Film4 .
Analogue radio stations from this transmitter, as provided by Ofcom: BBC Radio 2 89.9MHz at 125.0kW, BBC Radio 3 92.1MHz at 125.0kW (as 89.9MHz), BBC Radio Scotland 94.3MHz at 125.0kW (as 89.9MHz), BBC Radio 4 95.8MHz at 100.0kW, Forth FM 97.6MHz at 100W, BBC Radio 1 99.5MHz at 125.0kW (as 89.9MHz), Real Radio 100.3MHz at 10.0kW, Classic FM 101.7MHz at 125.0kW (as 89.9MHz), Clyde 1 102.5MHz at 10.0kW, BBC Radio nan Gaidheal 104.7MHz at 5.0kW, Smooth 105.2MHz at 15.0kW, Capital FM Scotland (Central Sco 106.1MHz at 10.0kW (as 100.3MHz). From http://stakeholders.ofcom....csv .
DAB services from Black Hill, as provided by Ofcom: Glasgow DAB mux: 96.3 Rock Radio BBC Scotland Clyde 1 Clyde 2 heat radio Jazz FM KISS LBC New service 1 Sunrise Radio Edinburgh DAB mux: 96.3 Rock Radio BBC Scotland FORTH 2 Forth One heat radio KISS LBC Sunrise Radio ONLY - http://stakeholders.ofcom....csv . BBC National DAB and D1 National are on other masts, Craigkelly DAB transmitter | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice covering the area.
COM6/ArqB: Same services (as confirmed by DMOL) in all parts of the UK, includes 711 The Hits radio, 712 Smash Hits!, 713 Kiss, 714 heat, 715 Magic, 716 Q, 718 Smooth radio, 722 Kerrang!, 725 Premier Radio. DMOL Post-DSO Multiplex Channel Allocations
If you are going to post offensive comments, at least get your facts straight.
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Friday, 4 November 2011
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Raymond Baxter2:20 AM
I have been experiencing break up ITV around 6pm last evening, and a timer set for STV news went to 2 and a half hours!
Currently we have only BBC channels with 100% signal.
The signal on ITV came back briefly, without sound and breaking up! Then the screen displayed the NO VIDEO message!
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Raymond Baxter: There are no reported problems with the transmitter - can you please have a look at Freeview reception has changed? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice ?
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Tuesday, 8 November 2011
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Tim1:00 PM
Kilmacolm
Post I sent recently seems to have been lost, so here we go again.
Mike - we have a booster in the attic because there are about 5 TV sockets in the house and I thought it made sense to do the splits this way. However, as it turns out, there is usually only 1 TV turned on at any one time.
Mux2 signal strength drops below 30 and teh bit error rate climbs drastically when we lose signal - as you would expect. The other Muxs' are all sitting rock steady at between 70 and 75 signal strength with 0 BER. So there has got to be something either wrong with the transmitter or interfering with the Mux2 signal. If it was interference, I would expect another Mux nearest in frequency to Mux 2 to be affected as well (unless the interfering signal is very narrow band - which I would have expected if it was a washing machine or central heating pump - they would be fairly broadband). Mobile phone, OK, would agree, but are there mobile wavelenths operating around 650 MHz? If so, that would appear to be a "design" fault on someone's part. So, still a mystery. But thanks again for the replies.
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Tim's: mapT's Freeview map terrainT's terrain plot wavesT's frequency data T's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Tim1:02 PM
Kilmacolm
Ooops. Should read.... (unless the interfering signal is very narrow band - which I would NOT have expected if it was a washing machine or central heating pump - they would be fairly broadband).
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Tim's: mapT's Freeview map terrainT's terrain plot wavesT's frequency data T's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Tim1:04 PM
Kilmacolm
Mike, forgot to answer your question. Signals all coming from Blackhill - frequencies match. Interference seems to last between 10 to 60 minutes when it does happen.
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Tim's: mapT's Freeview map terrainT's terrain plot wavesT's frequency data T's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 10 November 2011
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ian11:54 PM
any ideas what's going on with freeview hd from blackhill, had 13% signal quality and 62% strength at 10:30 for russell howard, then back at 86% quality and 88% strength at 11:45. had same issue during grandprix last sunday. why is signal more eratic now than before switchover. ps normal freeview 100% quality and 95% strength all the way through.
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Friday, 11 November 2011
ian: Please can you have a look at Freeview intermittent interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice ?
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Saturday, 12 November 2011
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ian7:09 PM
thanks briantist, had a look at page and went round turning off heating etc but to no avail. something from someone elses house is either interfering or the signal from blackhill keeps getting turned up and down. currently 49% quality and 82% power, was 100% quality and 95% power around about 5:30. i'm finding it all rather bizarre.
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Tuesday, 15 November 2011
ian: If that is the case then you might need to have a look at Freeview signals: too much of a good thing is bad for you | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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