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Freeview Light on the Cow Hill (Highland, Scotland) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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56.815,-5.095 or 56°48'52"N 5°5'41"W

PH33 6HW

The symbol shows the location of the Cow Hill (Highland, Scotland) transmitter which serves 5,000 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 Cow Hill (Highland, Scotland) transmitter.

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name

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Which Freeview channels does the Cow 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.

Mux	H/V	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	V max	C46 (674.0MHz)	344m	DTG-	13W
	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	C43 (650.0MHz)	344m	DTG-	13W
	3 STV (SD) (STV Central (Glasgow 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	C40 (626.0MHz)	344m	DTG-	13W
	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 66 TBN UK,

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

The Cow Hill (Highland, 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 Cow Hill transmitter?

BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 118km south-southeast (157°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.

STV News 1.3m homes 4.8%
from Glasgow G51 1PQ, 118km south-southeast (157°)
to STV Central (Glasgow) region - 94 masts.

Are there any self-help relays?

Conaglen	Active deflector	9 km SW Fort William	8 homes
Gairlochy	Active deflector	12 km NE Fort William	6 homes
Glen Loy	Active deflector	7 km N Fort William	4 homes hotel
S.locheilside	Active deflector	Loch Eil, 5-15 km NW Fort William	25 homes

How will the Cow Hill (Highland, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?

	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2010	2010-13	4 Oct 2017
	B E T	B E T	B E T	B E T	B E K T
C40	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves		BBCB
C43	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	D3+4	D3+4
C46	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBCA	BBCA
C50_{tv_off}	C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves	BBCB

_{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 13 Oct 10 and 27 Oct 10.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4	65W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-7dB) 13W

Local transmitter maps

Cow Hill Freeview Cow Hill DAB Torosay TV region BBC Scotland STV Central (Glasgow micro region)

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Torosay transmitter area

Aug 1957-Jun 1997	Scottish Television
Jun 1997-Dec 2014	STV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Cow Hill was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

Comments

Sunday, 26 May 2024

Joseph MacColl
1:10 PM

Currently without HD TV on .
All SD working fine. Any advice, thanks.

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Chris.SE

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2:41 PM

Joseph MacColl:

Can't find any faults currently listed. I you didn't try a retune when you had , you can't tune to signals that aren't there, the usual result is to clear the correct tuning.
If you did, then try a MANUAL retune for UHF channel .

Do obvious checks such as make sure your coax plugs etc are plugged in correctly and that your looks intact and is still pointing correctly.
If you are still having problems, please post back with a full postcode and more details about the other , ideally the signal strength and figures for the other two multiplexes.

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Please post a question, answer or commentIf you have Freeview reception problems before posting a question your must first do this Freeview reset procedure then see: Freeview reception has changed, Single frequency interference, and Freeview intermittent interference.

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