Full Freeview on the Rumster Forest (Highland, Scotland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Rumster Forest (Highland, Scotland) transmitter which serves 21,000 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 Rumster Forest (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 Rumster Forest (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 Rumster Forest 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 Rumster Forest (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 Rumster Forest transmitter?
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 281km south-southwest (193°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
STV News 0.4m homes 1.5%
from Aberdeen AB12 3QH, 154km south-southeast (150°)
to STV North (Aberdeen) region - 76 masts.
Are there any self-help relays?
| Altnaharra | Active deflector | 30 km N Lairg | 20 homes |
| Armadale | Transposer | 30 km W Thurso | 30 homes |
| Blandy | Active deflector | 50 km W Thurso | 20 homes |
| Borrobol | Active deflector | 80 km NE Inverness | 7 homes |
| Daviot | Active deflector | 8 km SE Inverness | 7 homes |
| Glenmore | Active deflector | 8 km SE Aviemore | 25 homes 1000 caravans |
| Kinbrace | Active deflector | 22 km NW Helmsdale | 20 homes School |
| Macduff | Transposer | 30 km W Fraserburgh | 30 homes |
| Portsoy C/p | Transposer | 10 km W Banff | 1 homes 60 caravans |
| Strath Halladale | Active deflector | Strath Halladale (south) | 20 homes |
| Strathnaver B | Active deflector | 48km SW Thurso | 21 homes |
| Strathy West | Active deflector | 22 km W Thurso | 17 homes |
| Suisgill | Active deflector | ||
| U.strthnairn B | Active deflector | 20 km S Inverness | 8 homes holiday |
How will the Rumster Forest (Highland, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1965-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2010 | 2010-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 23 Aug 2017 | ||
| VHF | A K T | A K T | A K T | W | W T | W T | A K T | ||
| C8 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C21 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | +BBCB | +BBCB | +BBCB | BBCB | ||
| C24 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||
| C27 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | ||
| C30 | -SDN | -SDN | -SDN | ||||||
| C31 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C32 | SDN | ||||||||
| C34 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C35 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C59tv_off | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ||||||
| C62 | ArqB |
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 2 Jun 10 and 16 Jun 10.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 100kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 10kW | |
| Mux A*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 2kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux B* | (-20dB) 1000W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Rumster Forest transmitter area
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Wednesday, 23 February 2011
Live in Thurso and frequently keep losing BBC channels, which are meant to have to strongest signal whilst all other ones are fine. Have just regained BBC channels after 1.5 weeks and signal is still bad.
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Thursday, 24 February 2011
Sarah Crowe: Please see Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice for help.
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Tuesday, 17 May 2011
J
jim11:44 PM
having signal problems in halkirk my freeview keeps cutting out one min the signal is full then it looses it for 5 seconds this happens alot only started 2 months ago have cheaked everything. there is nothing to interfear with signal in the house
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Wednesday, 18 May 2011
Saturday, 23 February 2013
B
Bill Thorburn11:41 AM
Banff
Hello, we have regular reception problems on all of the channels from PSB2 , COM4 and COM5 on the Rumster Forest transmitter. Reception of channels from PSB1 and COM6 are ok.
We think this problem has occurred after the retune in 2012. Prior to that retune we had no problems.
We have 2 Humax freeview plus boxes, our arial is on the roof and we have a signal booster in the loft.
Our postcode is AB452XA and we are in a rural area.
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Bill's: mapB's Freeview map terrainB's terrain plot wavesB's frequency data B's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Sarah Crowe
5:39 PM
5:39 PM
From about midday today the signal just went, everything was okay until that point then nothing on any channel. I'm in Thurso
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Thursday, 7 March 2013
Sarah Crowe
4:36 PM
Thurso
4:36 PM
Thurso
In Thurso postcode KW14 7JD. Had no signal since yesterday (Wednesday afternoon i.e. when the weather deteriorated) we have a digital aerial, signal booster in house and a freeview digital TV. Until that point we had pretty much perfect signal on all channels and nothing has changed in the vicinity of the TV to cause any interference.
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Sarah's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
J
jb385:54 PM
Sarah Crowe: As neither of the two transmitter fault reporting websites are indicating any problems in your area, then have you as yet checked with any neighbours to determine if they also are having problems with reception?
If not, then you should check to ensure that your booster amplifier has not been switched off, and if at all possible try by-passing it just in case its developed a fault.
Further advice dependant on reply.
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Saturday, 13 April 2013
M
Magnus Mackay3:44 PM
Thurso
Hello, up until a month ago we got a good reception on channel 62 ( ITV4 etc) but now it has started to break up and get a 'no signal' message, will there be a retune to channel 55? Post code KW147SS - Bettyhill
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Magnus's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Magnus Mackay: I think you're lucky to receive anything from Rumster Forest, so perhaps reception may be hit and miss.
C62 is due to move to C55 a week on Wednesday (24th April).
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