Full Freeview on the Rosemarkie (Highland, Scotland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Rosemarkie (Highland, Scotland) transmitter which serves 63,000 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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Rosemarkie (Highland, Scotland) transmitter._______
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)
The Rosemarkie (Highland, Scotland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which Freeview channels does the Rosemarkie 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)
The Rosemarkie (Highland, Scotland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .
If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80 Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see the will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Rosemarkie transmitter?
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 198km south (186°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
STV News 0.4m homes 1.5%
from Aberdeen AB12 3QH, 132km east-southeast (116°)
to STV North (Aberdeen) region - 76 masts.
Are there any self-help relays?
| Bhlaraidh | Active deflector | 40 km SW Inverness | 5 homes |
| Culloden | Transposer | 10 km E Inverness | 25 homes Caravan site |
| U.strthnairn A | Active deflector | 20 km S Inverness | 25 homes |
| Upper Foyers | Active deflector | Upper Foyers | 42 homes |
How will the Rosemarkie (Highland, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2010 | 2010-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 6 Sep 2017 | ||
| VHF | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | B E T | ||
| C2 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C39 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | +D3+4 | +D3+4 | D3+4 | |||
| C40 | +ArqB | +ArqB | ArqB | ||||||
| C42 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | ||
| C43 | SDN | SDN | SDN | SDN | |||||
| C45 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | ||
| C46 | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | |||||
| C49tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | +D3+4 | |||||
| C50tv_off | +ArqB | ||||||||
| C52tv_off | _local | _local | _local | _local |
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 6 Oct 10 and 20 Oct 10.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 100kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 10kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-11dB) 8kW |
Local transmitter maps
Rosemarkie Freeview Rosemarkie TV region BBC Scotland STV North (Aberdeen micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Rosemarkie transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldFriday, 13 May 2011
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Ian8:31 PM
Dingwall
Nope. We already have Sky and Freesat and the trees are blocking the signal to that as well. The satellite dish is pointing to the opposite direction to the aerial - so every way we loose. We can get some channels on satellite after dark and then loose them by 7.30am. The engineer did suggest just raising the dish, but if it's windy we already loose the signal so raising it higher will (I suspect) make matters worse.
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Saturday, 14 May 2011
Ian: Basically any tree will "earth" the incoming transmissions, be they terrestrial or satellite, so you must avoid them.
If that means mounting a more industrial dish higher up, then that might be the only option, given you seem to be surrounded by trees.
Well, other than a chainsaw of course.
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Sunday, 15 May 2011
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Ian9:20 AM
Dingwall
Briantist: I suppose there's always BBC iplayer. Trees don't belong to us and landowner not interested in doing anything about it - so chainsaw not option. May have to resort to a 40ft pole. Thanks for your help.
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Ian: An you can watch live online using the links in the right hand column or Watch live UK TV channels and listen to live radio now | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Thursday, 19 May 2011
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Richard6:21 AM
Inverness
IV63 6XT
We are getting all the available channels from the Rosemarkie transmitter but we do get some drop out.Do you thing this is just due to low signal strength .We cant get any form of satellite channel due to a large hill in the way.Is there any way of boosting the signal ?
Thanks Richard Goodson
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Richard: You are not officially in a coverage area.
I would have thought the best thing you can do to improve things is to raise your aerial up higher, as high as you possibly can.
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Saturday, 28 May 2011
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Susie10:18 PM
South Ockendon
I have no freeview channels, have tried a full rescan and manual scan to no avail. I have no carrier, displays no database. My aerial is in my loft but I have had freeview channels before so why is this happening now?
Any advice would be helpful. My tv is new but i had the same problem with my older one this week as well.
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Monday, 30 May 2011
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Jim F.12:53 PM
Susie,
Not sure why your post is in the Rosemarkie transmitter section - South Ockendon would typically use the Crystal Palace transmitter.
If you've lost everything signal-wise with your loft aerial, there are a few things to check:
a) Aerial isn't pointing through neighbour's loft and they've just had foil-lined insulation installed (which would screen your signal).
b) The cable from the aerial is actually connected to something (you may have some form of distribution or splitter in the loft to feed other rooms). If its connected to an amplifier, is the amplifier switched on (or getting its power from somewhere)?
c) There's a possibility of a short-circuit at a coax plug (particularly the ones that use a small screw to hold the centre core of the cable).
Jim.
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Friday, 15 July 2011
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Linda8:16 PM
Inverness
I have a philips freeview set top box and for the last week have either had no chanels at all or just the BBC chanels and selling chanels. Now I have just ITV3 and the BBC is pixalated. I have retuned several times and nothing is changed. I am served by the Rosemarkie transmitter but can't find anything on line to indicate a problem. Can anyone advise me please.
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Linda's: mapL's Freeview map terrainL's terrain plot wavesL's frequency data L's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 17 July 2011
Linda: Please can you see Freeview reception has changed? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice for help?
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