Full Freeview on the Eitshal (Eilean Siar, Scotland) transmitter

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

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58.179,-6.586 or 58°10'44"N 6°35'10"W

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The symbol shows the location of the Eitshal (Eilean Siar, Scotland) transmitter which serves 9,900 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 Eitshal (Eilean Siar, 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 Eitshal transmitter broadcast?

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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.

Mux	H/V	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	H max	C26 (514.0MHz)	367m	DTG-	20,000W
	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	H max	C23 (490.0MHz)	367m	DTG-	20,000W
	3 STV (SD) (STV North (Aberdeen 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	H max	C29 (538.0MHz)	367m	DTG-	20,000W
	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,
COM4 SDN	H -3dB	C25 (506.0MHz)	367m	DTG-8	10,000W
	20 U&Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 U&Dave ja vu, 58 ITV3 +1, 59 ITV4 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 91 WildEarth, 93 ITVBe +1, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 251 Al Jazeera English, 255 FRANCE 24 (in English), 265 Rok Sky +1, plus 29 others
COM5 ArqA	H -3dB	C22 (482.0MHz)	367m	DTG-8	10,000W
	11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 U&Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 U&Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 &UYesterday +1, 76 That's TV 2 MCR, 233 Sky News, plus 13 others
COM6 ArqB	H -3dB	C28 (530.0MHz)	367m	DTG-8	10,000W
	12 Quest, 25 U&W, 27 U&Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 63 GREAT! romance mix, 73 HobbyMaker, 75 That's 90s, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

DTG-8 64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

The Eitshal (Eilean Siar, 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 Eitshal transmitter?

BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 294km south-southeast (154°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.

STV News 0.4m homes 1.5%
from Aberdeen AB12 3QH, 293km east-southeast (115°)
to STV North (Aberdeen) region - 76 masts.

Are there any self-help relays?

Culkien	Active deflector	40 km N Ullapool	18 homes
Durnamuck	Transposer	10 km W Ullapool	21 homes
Glascarnoch B	Active deflector	40 km NW Inverness
Kinlochewe	Transposer
Staffin B	Active deflector
Strathkanaird	Active deflector	8 km N Ullapool	15 homes
Torridon B	Active deflector	80 km W Inverness	15 homes (second level)
Torridon V/p	Transposer	80 km W Inverness	110 homes

How will the Eitshal (Eilean Siar, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?

	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2010	2010-13	20 Sep 2017
	A K T	A K T	A K T	A K T	A K T
C22				ArqA	ArqA
C23	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	D3+4	D3+4
C25				SDN	SDN
C26	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBCA	BBCA
C28				ArqB	ArqB
C29	C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves	BBCB	BBCB
C33	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves

_{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 7 Jul 10 and 21 Jul 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 1, Mux 2, Mux A, Mux B, Mux C, Mux D	(-21dB) 800W

Local transmitter maps

Eitshal Freeview Eitshal AM/FM Eitshal (Lewis) TV region BBC Scotland STV North (Aberdeen micro region)

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Eitshal (Lewis) transmitter area

Sep 1961-Jun 1997	Grampian 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. Eitshal 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.