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, 29 March 2016
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Neville Wake11:40 AM
My signal is from the Black Hill Central Scotland transmitter and is great on all channels except channel 42 which cuts out every thirty seconds or so. Are there problems that are not being shown on the website?
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KMJ,Derby12:34 PM
Neville Wake: which mux are you receiving on C42? This is not a frequency used by the main transmitter, but you could be receiving an additional weaker signal from a relay, such as Millburn Muir for example, (if you are located to the Southwest of Glasgow) which has been tuned in erroneously.
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Monday, 4 April 2016
It says no problems yet I am losing Hd channels and breakup of ordinary digital
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MikeP
10:37 PM
Trowbridge
10:37 PM
Trowbridge
Alexei Romanov:
Check that your TV is tuned to the transmissions from Black Hill and not those from Roseneath, which could be received poorly vai the back of your aerial. It is best to check which channel numbers have been tuned in using the manual method, the User Manual for your TV should tell you how to do that.
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Tuesday, 5 April 2016
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Andrew10:08 PM
alexei romanov:
I am experiencing similar disruption on the BBC HD channels. Everything has been fine until this week. I am retuning my Freeview box to see if that resolves this issue...
Hmm, ok. That's not helped; BBC 1 (101) and 2 (102) HD have been dropped from the channel list.
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Andrew10:49 PM
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Ok, I've unplugged the Freeview box, and routed the aerial directly into the TV. Retuning pulled back all of the channels that I'd 'lost'. I've put the aerial back into the Freeview box, retuned (again), and the channels are back. And they seem to have a good signal strength as well. Fingers crossed that this is an end to the inconvenience.
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MikeB11:02 PM
Andrew: You shouldn't retune - it just wipes out what you know thats works. It sounds like you may have a problem with your system - or possibly just the box or a cable. Check your signal levels on both devices, and perhaps wap out an aerial cable - its a cheap fix if ones got a probalem.
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The signals come and go.too weak to run a box and TV.Worse in morning when I want to watch Channel 5.
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Wednesday, 6 April 2016
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MikeB9:02 AM
alexei romanov: look at the digitaluk link. Your 40km from Black Hill with good reception - so check your tuned to Black Heath. If you are, then look at signal strength. If its that low, check your system - sounds like something is wrong there.
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Sunday, 10 April 2016
The reception of Had is better than ordinary today but the sound cuts out, it doesn't do this on BBCnewsHD.Want to watch the Rangers game on BBCAlba but I am getting sound only on this channel at present.It is tuned to Blackhill,the TV won't tune to weaker signals from other transmitter
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