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, 10 August 2015
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Carol12:23 AM
Good evening.
Was wondering if you can tell me whats the best in door areal to use as I'm 26 km away from black hill transmitter and haven't got a inside areal and can't afford to get one fitted So need a inside areal its string enough to get my TV working.
Would be great full if you could help me
Warmest regards
Carol engler
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MikeP7:24 AM
Carol:
If you are 26 km away from the transmitter it is highly unlikely that any indoor aerial will give you satisfactory reception, not even those fitted with an amplifier. There are other factors to consider as well, not just distance, such as hills and taller building between you and the transmitter. Because of that, for contributors here to be able to help more we would really need a post code so we can examine the signal path to your home.
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Wednesday, 19 August 2015
It is definitely whatever work they are doing on the transmitter.As I am 25miles from it and houses in the wayI need a strong signal.Tonight four of the HD channels reappeared after three weeks,managed to watch Newsnight no problem.The Ch35 mux hasn't returned so don't have those channels.
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Thursday, 27 August 2015
I had perfect BBC signals from Blackhill Sun till Wed.now they were breaking up.Have BBC2 on and getting sound only.
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Wednesday, 2 September 2015
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Stuart Welsh4:17 PM
Transmitter engineering: Black Hill weak signal on UHF channel 47
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Monday, 14 September 2015
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L.Eckford11:17 AM
What on earth has happened to the FM signals for the BBC radio channels in Glasgow area? One minute you are listening to Radio 2 then it cuts out & your'e listening to fresh air...Please give an explanation for this & sort it out. The license fee is expensive enough without having our service's cut. Thank you.
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D Thompson11:30 AM
According to the BBC's web page at http://www.bbc.co.uk/rece…m63, there's maintenance work on the FM transmitter at Black Hill. This was scheduled for Sept 11th and 12th and is weather dependent. I suppose this is still on-going. It's odd that BBC Shortbread is broadcasting fine on FM in the central belt while Radio 1-4 are dead.
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Wednesday, 16 September 2015
10:27 AM
Continuing problems in the Glasgow area for Radio 1& 2. This has been an issue for a week now. Generally, all is well until 10am then there is nothing until 2pm. Please advise when this will be resolved as it is extremely frustrating.
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Murray McAllan10:34 AM
The repeated interruptions to BBC FM broadcasts over the past few days are totally unacceptable, especially as they happen without either warning, or subsequent apology. Advance Information downtime and on its likely duration should be posted on a readily accessible and well-advertised website.
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grainne12:19 PM
Murray McAllan:I tried retuning my tv due to blurry channels & lost all my bbc's and others are still blurry. only real watchable ones are RTE1, RTE1+1, RTE2, TV3, TG4, 3e & UTV Ireland. Keep retuning but no luck. I live in the R.O.I so you prob cant help me
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