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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Thursday, 24 October 2013
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MikeB7:05 PM
Alistair: Your relatively close to Black Hill (19km) witha clear line of sight, so you probably dont need the booster, in fact its possibly making reception worse. Yes, its having engineering work, but it should be fine.
However, you should get both audio and video together. If you've connected things up via scrat, check that they are fitting properly, since thats the sort of thing that can cause the problem your having.Check aerial cables, etc as well, and if possible, use hdmi rather than scart. Any loose connection can cause problems, so follow the chain.
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Lily Bryson7:21 PM
Help Digital tv worked fine till this this evening then got a message saying no signal, followed instructions on here now get told no channels found so no idea how to get channels back
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Lily Bryson7:26 PM
Got bbc channels back but with very bad signal so not watchable no other free view channels not even itv so no idea what had happened by following instructions on here
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Lily Bryson7:51 PM
Glasgow
MikeB: postcode G11 6AH
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Lily's: mapL's Freeview map terrainL's terrain plot wavesL's frequency data L's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Lily Bryson8:27 PM
Glasgow
Postcode g11 6ah communal Ariel. Decided not to touch other tv which also says no or bad signal but still has all channels so just main tv where followed instructions that has only some bbc channels not even all those and 13 radio channels but no/bad signal. At least sky works
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MikeB10:58 PM
Lily Bryson: As I said earlier, there doesnt seem to be any problems with the ytransmitter, even though its having engineering work.
If you've got more than one tv running from the same aerial, check the cable - no signal means that, so its possibly a broken or loose cable or connection. Sometimes you can have the strongest channels coming through, but not all.
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Lily Bryson11:14 PM
Glasgow
G11 6AH
Checked all cables and connections on both tv's and they are both fine, the problem is the signal according to message on both tv's, the tv isn't even picking up all the freeview channels it was this morning the aerial is a communal one so as you advise no problem with transmission will speak to factor in morning. On the tv I retuned it hasn't even picked up all the radio channels, if factor advises no prob with aerial then presume the issue is not with our system and tv's are new so have no idea what prob is other than the transmission
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Friday, 25 October 2013
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jb3812:10 AM
Lily Bryson: Anyone residing in an apartment block served by a communal aerial system experiencing problems with reception should always adopt checking with a neighbour to determine if they are also experiencing similar problems as the number one priority, because the chances are that they might well be!
The second point being, that if a programme is selected from the EPG guide list (or even just directly!) and it results in a blank screen then its most inadvisable for anyone to retune their TV, as in most cases the blank screen is simply being caused by the signal level received having dropped under the level required to produce a picture and which "will" return of its own accord when the level rises again provided that the TV / box has "not" been retuned, because the action of retuning wipes out everything already stored in the tuners memory and which will "only" be reloaded into the tuners memory again if the signal has returned to normal, because if it hasn't then the situation has been created where further retunes will be required at random times to recover the programmes.
The main point being, that if the EPG guide list is still being displayed then the TV / box has "not" lost the programme channel irrespective of whether or not anything is seen when the programme channel is selected.
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Lily Bryson6:19 AM
Thanks but tried retuning as per the advise on this website last night that is what lost everything will speak to factors this morning lily
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