Freeview Light on the Largs (North Ayrshire, Scotland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Largs (North Ayrshire, 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 Largs (North Ayrshire, 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 Largs (North Ayrshire, 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 Largs 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 | H max | C45 (666.0MHz) | 52m | 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 | H max | C42 (642.0MHz) | 52m | DTG- | 5W |
 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 | H max | C39 (618.0MHz) | 52m | 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 Largs (North Ayrshire, 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 Largs transmitter?
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 36km east (80°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
STV News 1.3m homes 4.8%
from Glasgow G51 1PQ, 37km east (81°)
to STV Central (Glasgow) region - 94 masts.
How will the Largs (North Ayrshire, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 3 Oct 2018 | |||||
| B E T | B E T | B E T | B E K T | B E K T | |||||
| C39 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C42 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C45 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C49tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 8 Jun 11 and 22 Jun 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 11W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-3.4dB) 5W |
Local transmitter maps
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Tuesday, 31 July 2018
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R. Dippie7:50 PM
Where will the Largs TV light transmitter be located once Largs Academy is demolished in the near future.?
Will our aerial need re-positioned?
What will the retune and extended bandwith achive in Sept. 2018?
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Saturday, 22 February 2020
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Chris Barlow3:40 PM
Largs
22/02/2020 For the past week all non-BBC related channels have been almost unwatchable and in most cases no signal at all, yet whenever you check the transmitter it says no problems . I have re-tuned many, many times but no difference. When I run diagnostics and check the tuner it shows all UHF signal channels that have BBC channels on showing as 84% signal strength and 100% signal quality and all other channels on UHF signal channel 25 as less than 1% with the TV displaying no picture or very broken up sound and video and 'poor signal' message. This includes ITV, ITV2, ITV3, ITV4, Channel 4, Channel 5, E4, Film 4 etc - all BBC channels are perfect. My postcode is KA30 8AB in Largs. Currently there are dozens of people complaining on Facebook/Largs people site saying the same thing. Can someone finally admit there is a transmit problem and fix it. Thank you.
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js4:24 PM
Chris Barlow: Your Most Likely Transmitter is Rothesay according to the Coverage Checker.
Is your aerial pointing NW (Rothesay) or E (Largs Holehouse) - pardon the expression.
Largs D3&4 is on C31 and Rothesay D3&4 is on C25.
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Stewart Tindal4:40 PM
ITV channels keep pixelating from the Rothesay Transmitter
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Chris.SE6:36 PM
Chris Barlow:
Stewart Tindal:
I agree with js, in addition to which if your aerial is pointing NW at towards Rothersay, the rods should be vertical. If you are pointing E at Largs, the rods should be horizontal. but although it's much closer to you, it's also very low power and it's not predicted to give quite as good a reception as Rothersay presumably because of the terrain, so it might depend on exactly where you are in your postcode.
However if Largs gets its signal from Rothersay, then if Rothersay is faulty as Stewart Tindal seems to think, it might affect Largs.
Please also note that this is an independent help-site for people with reception and technical problems.
So whichever of the above, I'd suggest you post the information on your Facebook page, for each and everyone of you to phone Freeview on 0808-100-0288 and complain about the signal. It will be no good just one of you phoning, you all need to.
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Chris.SE6:41 PM
Chris Barlow:
Forgot to ask which UHF channel are you getting your BBC signals on?
Also, | noted you have a mobile phone mast very close to you, do you have a 4G filter fitted?
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Stewart Tindal7:01 PM
It is obvious you have a problem there has been numerous comments on Facebook on this problem in our area. So why do you not admit it and do something about ???
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js7:30 PM
Stewart Tindal: OK, we admit it. We'll get right on it sir.
Seriously, you're barking up the wrong tree. You might try reading Chris.SE's reply above.
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Chris.SE7:31 PM
Stewart Tindal:
Why don't you READ my post -
Please also note that this is an independent help-site for people with reception and technical problems.
So I suggest you do what I advised and stop moaning here.
If you want some technical help fine, and provide a full postcode if you do.
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Tuesday, 8 October 2024
Transmitter engineering
2:20 PM
2:20 PM
LARGS transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to essential engineering from 8 Oct 10:39 until 8 Oct 11:13. . [BBC]
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