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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Monday, 26 March 2012
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jb387:31 AM
Eddie McKendrick: Regarding you stating that you have never been able to get the HD mux from your feed, are you sure that its not simply because you have an "HD Ready" TV not equipped with a DVB-T2 tuner? the key part being "2".
If you have the manual for your TV have a look at the specifications section in the rear and in particular the specifications of the tuner, and if you see DVB-T and not T2 then thats the reason.
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Scott6:51 PM
Scott: I was doing a manual rescan (which I prefer as it avoids picking up multiple transmitters) and got nothing on channel 40. It turns out on my equipment you need to change the setting from DVB-T to DVB-T2 to receive these channels.
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jb387:38 PM
Scott: Purely out of interest what equipment are you using?
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Tuesday, 27 March 2012
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Scott8:52 PM
Scott: This particular equipment is a Humax HDR-FOX T2 PVR. I also have a Sony TV and 'heritage' Thomson decoder box in my kitchen. They all work differently.
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Sunday, 1 April 2012
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anne2:35 PM
South Queensferry
Im in EH30 9RZ and cannot get any freeview channels yest or today, just get blue screen with 'NO SIGNAL' this is on both main tv set and bedroom set. Can still get SKY on main TV (thankfully). Have checked aerial cables etc, does not appear to be a problem. We are served by a communal aerial. Is anyone else in area having similar problem?
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Thursday, 5 April 2012
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Alison Whyte1:28 PM
Glasgow
I have been losing digital channels so carried out full auto scan and no have no digital channels at all on any television. Virgn cable fortunately unaffected. Full digital aerial on roof and cables to TV appear connected ok. This morning lost radio channels on DAB radio! Help!
Post code G66 4JN
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Saturday, 16 June 2012
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Conor5:39 PM
I live in Kinross and I am almost certain use the Black Hill transmitter. I cannot get any of the BBC channels. Every other channel is working perfectly Just BBC tv and radio.
Is anyone else having the same issues?
The possible causes I can think of
Freeview HD upgrade?
Weather?
Wind farm?
Fault?
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Thursday, 5 July 2012
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samantha4:39 PM
hii wonder if u can help ,i live in the southside of glasgow ,and everyone in my st freeview has went down ,it is saying weak signal .is there anything wrong with the black hill transmitter. thannks ,
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Mark Fletcher4:49 PM
Halifax
Samantha,South side of Glasgow.We can certainly be of valuable help to you if you leave preferably a full postcode to ascertain the reception possibilities at your location,whether yer served from either from the main Black Hill main transmitter if yer aerial is horizontally polarised or whether yer served from a nearby relay mast denoting a vertical polarised aerial as such.
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Tuesday, 10 July 2012
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glasgowjohn11:08 AM
Glasgow
I live in the G13 area and have a communal aerial. My Humax Fox T2 PVR gives excellent reception on all channels all of the time EXCEPT on the HD channels which are either weak or no signal at all. I already use a plug-in aerial signal booster to help the HD issue. Without this booster there is NO HD reception at all.
Would I benefit from a stronger aerial signal booster, do I need to think of purchasing my own personal aerial or is there some other (tuning?) remedy to sort this issue?
I would be grateful for your input.
Thanks
John
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