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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Wednesday, 16 October 2019
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John10:45 PM
I live on the Glasgow airport flight path and when a plane lands I lose signal quality, so that I have no picture for two or four seconds. Seems to only happen on BBCB transmissions. Any ideas what I can do?
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Chris.SE11:28 PM
John:
We are going to need a full postcode to look at predicted reception at your location before we can offer any constructive advice.
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Thursday, 17 October 2019
J
John6:25 PM
Glasgow
the postcode is G61 3PD
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John's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Chris.SE7:28 PM
John:
Hmm, tricky one. According to the DigitalUK checker for your postcode, see About us | Freeview reception of the BBCB multiplex is excellent. Are you not getting any issues with other HD channels on the COMs 7&8 muxes?
Whether slight repositioning of the aerial may help is difficult to say, if you can check that it's pointing at 106deg. (16deg. S of E) - borrow a compass? Whether tilting it slightly up may help, or just alter the problem to just before they touch-down again is almost impossible to say. If you can easily and safely get to your aerial, experimenting is really the option.
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Saturday, 19 October 2019
J
John6:27 PM
Chris I now seem to have BBCB on 530.005 MHz, this was previously 626.000 MHz. Still have the same issue. Not able to reposition aerial. Any thoughts as to why?
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Chris.SE8:00 PM
John:
You have BBCB on 530MHz which is UHF28 because you are picking it up from Darvel and it's lower power than Black Hill as well as further away, this will not be helping.
What wasn't clear is how long you've had the problem, if it's just since a retune in/since September when only the Local mux moved, then you've been unlucky.
It's also possible your aerial is not pointing in quite the direction it should be, although the beam-width may be sufficient to allow sufficient reception from Darvel. Can you not at least check the angle your aerial is pointing?
It should be 16deg. S of E (106deg) for Black Hill. Darvel is 178deg. almost due S.
I suggest that you unplug the aerial and do an automatic tune - this should clear all previous tuning as no signals are being received. Then plug the aerial back in and do a manual tune for each of the UHF channels from Black Hill. You should see channels from the coverage checker, but for clarity they are - Ch.no:(MHz) -
46 (674), 43 (650), 40 (626), 41+ (634.167), 44 (658), 47 (682), 55 (746), 56 (754), 30 (546) in the order
PSB1/BBCA, PSB2/D3&4, PSB3/BBCB, COM4/SDN, COM5/ArqA, COM6/ArqB, COM7, COM8, Local.
If you want to convert UHF channel number to MHz at any time see Help | Freeview
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Sunday, 20 October 2019
J
John12:58 PM
Hi Chris, I've checked alignment and it is same as others in the street , approx 106, it could be 103, would that have an influence? Magnetic of course.
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Chris.SE6:24 PM
John:
That minor difference is unlikely to make much difference. But once you are tuned to the correct transmitter, as I'd said previously, it may be a case of experimenting and if you can't get to your aerial easily, it's difficult to say what might be best.
From your location, what direction is the runway in and where they touch down?
Do any of your neighbours get a similar problem?
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