Freeview Light on the West Linton (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the West Linton (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmitter which serves 1,100 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 West Linton (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The West Linton (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.
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 West Linton 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.
| Mux | H/V | Frequency | Height | Mode | Watts |
| PSB1 BBCA | V max | C30 (546.0MHz) | 323m | DTG- | 5W |
 1 BBC One (SD) Scotland, 2 BBC Two Scotland, 7 BBC Alba HD, 23 BBC Three, 24 BBC Four (Scotland SD), 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 13 others | |||||
| PSB2 D3+4 | V max | C23 (490.0MHz) | 323m | DTG- | 5W |
 3 STV (SD) (STV Central (Edinburgh micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) Scotland ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 Scotland ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (STV Edinburgh), 35 STV+1 (STV Edinburgh), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C26 (514.0MHz) | 323m | DTG- | 5W |
 46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Scotland, 102 BBC Two HD Scotland, 103 ITV 1 HD (STV West), 103 STV HD (STV West), 104 Channel 4 HD Scotland ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 108 BBC Scotland HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others | |||||
Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?
The West Linton (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.
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 West Linton transmitter?
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 61km west-northwest (284°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
STV News 0.5m homes 1.7%
from Edinburgh EH3 9QG, 24km north-northeast (20°)
to STV Central (Edinburgh) region - 8 masts.
How will the West Linton (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 3 Oct 2018 | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | |||||
| C23 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C26 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C29 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCA | |||||
| C30 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C33 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves |
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 1 Jun 11 and 15 Jun 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 25W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 5W |
Local transmitter maps
West Linton Freeview Craigkelly TV region BBC Scotland STV Central (Edinburgh micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Craigkelly transmitter area
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Friday, 24 June 2011
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Justin MacNeil3:39 PM
After completion of digital switchover I again retuned my new Samsung UE46D7000, and lo and behold, no HD (BBCB) Mux.
I tried manually searching for it on C26 (as listed for West Linton) last night, having tried auto-retunes a couple of times already, and there appears to be no signal at all on C26. So I'm seeing transmissions on just two channels - 23 and 29 (Mux D3+4 Mux, Mux BBCA)
What gives? Have they decided not to bother (re)transmitting the HD Mux from West Linton?
Another oddity - just for the record - according to all the information available they were supposed to switch off analogue BBC2 in the period between DSO initial move and DSO final move, but they actually killed C4 for 2 weeks!
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Mike Dimmick5:04 PM
Justin MacNeil: As far as we know, there are no faults on the transmitter. Can you provide a full postcode so we can see where you are?
It's common for viewers to have too much signal after switchover. If you have a booster, remove it. If reducing signal levels doesn't help, check with your neighbours to see if they can get HD signals, and if they can't either, use the BBC reception page at BBC - Reception problems .
As far as the first analogue channel to go is concerned, at main stations, the transmitter that is switched off/switched mode* is whichever the BBC A multiplex replaces, which was indeed C4. However, in cases where this is not BBC Two, the channel whose transmitter was switched off is moved to the BBC Two frequency for the two week changeover period.
That is, BBC Two closed down, C4 moved to C26, then BBC A started up on C29.
For West Linton it's likely that no change was actually required, because the same change (BBC A launching on C4's frequency, C4 moving to BBC Two's frequency) happened at the upstream transmitter, Penicuik. Faults at that transmitter, or the main transmitter, Craigkelly, would impact West Linton as well. Again, no problems have been reported.
* Largely the technical switch-over happened several months ago, and the old analogue transmitter or transposer was replaced by new dual-standard equipment, which is then switched over to digital operation on the actual switchover days.
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Wednesday, 29 June 2011
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Justin MacNeil11:03 AM
Feeling slightly foolish now...
I switched on my BluRay player on Sunday to demonstrate the picture quality of the new TV and it wanted to retune. I let it do so, and it picked up the HD Mux (BBCB). So I rescanned the TV and it (just) succeeded in finding BBCB, but the picture was quite unstable (severely breaking up every few seconds) - so I removed the BluRay from the antenna feed and the signal seems a lot more stable now. Original arrangement was Antenna->PVR->BluRay->TV. Now Antenna->PVR->TV. So I guess there were just too many hops in the antenna feed - that and perhaps that the final antenna cable (Bluray->TV) was a fairly pathetic thin thing that I had lying around from an old VHS recorder. Thanks for the quick response. Much happier now :-).
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Mike Dimmick2:36 PM
Justin MacNeil: Each device usually adds a small amount of amplification to offset the insertion loss of the device itself, and sometimes a little more to offset the expected loss in the cable. That amplification adds additional noise, which can cause problems. Also, each amplifier could be overloaded, introducing distortion, and cause intermodulation problems, or the level could be too high when it reaches the final device in the chain, again causing intermodulation.
If the device doesn't actually tune into the signal from the aerial, and you're not using the RF modulation feature, it's better not to include it in the chain. I have to admit I've not heard of Blu-Ray players with an RF modulator before!
You also need to check that any devices with an RF modulator are set to use a free channel. You should avoid using any channel that is 1, 5 or 9 channels above any transmissions that you want to receive. (N+5 and N+9 cause beating problems, while RF modulators commonly don't suppress the lower side-band as real TV transmitters do, which then ends up on top of the channel below.).
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Friday, 27 September 2013
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alan graham12:20 AM
Transmitter engineering:I live in West Linton with an uninterrupted view of the transmitter across a field. Why is BBC radio 5 almost un-listenable in any room on any portable radio.? Up until about 6 months ago reception was first class.
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