Full Freeview on the Darvel (East Ayrshire, Scotland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Darvel (East Ayrshire, Scotland) transmitter which serves 150,000 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 Darvel (East Ayrshire, Scotland) mast?
Darvel transmitter - Darvel 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Darvel 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Darvel transmitter?
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 31km north (1°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
STV News 1.3m homes 4.8%
from Glasgow G51 1PQ, 31km north (2°)
to STV Central (Glasgow) region - 94 masts.
Are there any self-help relays?
| Craigie Gardens | Transposer | 1 homes 90 caravans | |
| Inversnaid | Active deflector | 35 km N Dumbarton | 8 homes Hotel caravan park |
How will the Darvel (East Ayrshire, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 5 Sep 2018 | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | W T | |||||
| C22 | -BBCA | BBCA | |||||||
| C23 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | SDN | |||||
| C25 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||||||
| C26 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ArqA | |||||
| C28 | BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
| C29 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ArqB | |||||
| C30 | _local | ||||||||
| C31 | com7 | ||||||||
| C32 | SDN | ||||||||
| C33 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C34 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C35 | C5waves | C5waves | ArqB | ||||||
| C37 | com8 | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | 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 11 May 11 and 25 May 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-5 | 100kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 10kW | |
| com8 | (-10.9dB) 8.19kW | |
| com7 | (-11.2dB) 7.5kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-14dB) 4kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 2kW |
Local transmitter maps
Darvel Freeview Darvel DAB Darvel AM/FM Darvel TV region BBC Scotland STV Central (Glasgow micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Darvel transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldTuesday, 10 February 2015
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Ken Johnson7:53 PM
Over the last few nights (since Saturday 7 Feb 2015) the freeview signal has been intermittent, with picture and sound failing often several times per minute and the message "no signal" displayed. Our aerial is directed to the Darvel transmitter, but our neighbour is having a similar problem form the Lochwinnoch transmitter.
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Dave Lindsay
8:05 PM
8:05 PM
Ken Johnson: Lochwinnoch receives its signal over the air from Darvel. Elsewhere there is a complaint from someone who receives from Arrochar which gets its signal from Ardentinny which gets its signal from Darvel.
Arrochar (West Dunbartonshire, Scotland) Freeview Light transmitter
Maybe this is something with the transmitter.
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Monday, 30 March 2015
ok , i have listened and read quite a few comments on inversion and tropospheric induction , basically is there a solution and how can you tell that is EXACTLY whats going on ?? Kind Regards Alex
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Alex's: mapA's Freeview map terrainA's terrain plot wavesA's frequency data A's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Friday, 26 February 2016
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JIM CUNNINGHAM8:11 AM
I and my neighbour have had reception problems resulting in total loss of signal for the last few days now. is there a problem in the ardrossan area????
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jb389:01 PM
JIM CUNNINGHAM: If your Freeview reception is from the Darvel transmitter, then no faults have been listed against same. If though your reception is from the West Kilbride relay? and which is predicted as providing a superior level of signal to certain parts of Ardrossan, then a warning of "possible service interruptions" is listed against it, the reason for basically down to the engineering work being carried out at the Blackhill transmitter where it receives its signal from, a notice warning of "possible weak signal" currently in force against this station.
That said, any transmitter that's temporarily disabled for safety reasons is never off for any more than 30 minutes or so at the most, although reduced power can be for a whole day or more, this making me wonder if your neighbour and you are both connected into a communal aerial distribution system? as any defects in same will affect everyone connected into the system.
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Sunday, 8 May 2016
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Florence Fraser 5:26 PM
I have been having interruptions and plxielating pictures for about 4 months. I had an engineer out who said we are on Darvel. After a weekend away I've come home to Bbc1&2 only. I have retuned and I now only have 14 TV and 13 Radio channels . Can you help please. Postcode G132EU.
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jb388:39 PM
Florence Fraser : When the engineer had mentioned you are on Darvel, was he referring to the aerial? or was it the station he found your TV had been tuned to?, as practically all aerials seen in your area are facing towards Black Hill, i.e: if looking downhill at properties on the right hand side of Knightswood Road, aerials are seen to be pointing at an angle towards said properties back gardens.
Although you could try carrying out another retune on your TV to see if this corrects the problem, its doubtful if it would, as Darvel uses lower transmitter channel numbers than Blackhill, the difficulty being that Freeview devices scan from 21 upwards storing anything found, which of course would be Darvel, manual tuning of the channels used by Blackhill being the only way around this.
Anyway, try carrying out another retune and see what happens.
Further assistance dependant on outcome.
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Friday, 15 July 2016
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ian ferguson4:20 PM
I stay in stewarton but cannot receive channels 86 and 81 etc on freeview yet your coverage on com 7 above says we do please confirm
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StevensOnln14:56 PM
ian ferguson: Do you receive any HD channels on 101-105, as you need TV or set top box capable of receiving HD channels to view anything broadcast on COM7? Also, COM7 (and COM8) are broadcast at much lower power than other services which can make them more difficult to receive.
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Saturday, 16 July 2016
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Heather4:02 PM
Kilmarnock
Stay in block of flats in Kilmarnock have a council dish aerial on roof a few of us seem to be having problems with no signal Ino tv at all is this transmitter or aerial
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Heather's: mapH's Freeview map terrainH's terrain plot wavesH's frequency data H's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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