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Full Freeview on the Craigkelly (Fife, Scotland) transmitter

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

56.071,-3.234 or 56°4'17"N 3°14'1"W

KY3 9HW

The symbol shows the location of the Craigkelly (Fife, Scotland) transmitter which serves 430,000 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 Craigkelly (Fife, 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 Craigkelly 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	C27 (522.0MHz)	311m	DTG-3	20,000W
	1 BBC One (SD) Scotland, 2 BBC Two Scotland, 7 BBC Alba, 23 BBC Three, 24 BBC Four (Scotland SD), 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, 250 BBC Red Button, plus 12 others
PSB2 D3+4	H max	C24 (498.0MHz)	311m	DTG-3	20,000W
	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, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV +1 (STV Edinburgh), 35 STV+1 (STV Edinburgh),
PSB3 BBCB	H max	C21+ (474.2MHz)	311m	DTG-6	20,000W
	56 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Scotland, 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 ITV 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	C29 (538.0MHz)	311m	DTG-8	10,000W
	12 Quest, 20 Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! movies action, 46 Channel 5 +1, 58 ITVBe +1, 59 ITV3 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 CBS Reality, 74 Dave ja vu, 78 TCC, 81 Blaze +1, 89 ITV4 +1, 203 CITV, 208 POP MAX, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, plus 15 others
COM5 ArqA	H -3dB	C31 (554.0MHz)	311m	DTG-8	10,000W
	11 Sky Arts, 17 Really, 19 Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 pick, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 57 Smithsonian Channel, 60 Drama +1, 70 Quest +1, 75 Yesterday +1, 83 Together TV, 233 Sky News, plus 8 others
COM6 ArqB	H -3dB	C38+ (610.2MHz)	311m	DTG-8	10,000W
	FreeSports, 25 W, 27 Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 71 Quest Red +1, 73 HobbyMaker, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 88 Classic Hits, 235 Aljazeera English, plus 19 others
LEH	H -6dB	C32 (562.0MHz)	311m	DTG-12	5,000W
	from 30th June 2014: 8 STV Edinburgh,

DTG-3 64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-6 256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4
DTG-8 64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Craigkelly transmitter?

BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 70km west-southwest (252°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.

STV News 0.5m homes 1.7%
from Edinburgh EH3 9QG, 14km south (174°)
to STV Central (Edinburgh) region - 8 masts.

Are there any self-help relays?

Dullatur	Transposer	20 km NE Glasgow	40 homes
Edinburgh	Transposer	Sighthill area	167 homes

How will the Craigkelly (Fife, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?

	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2011	2011-13	3 Oct 2018
	A K T	K T	K T	K T	W T
C21	C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves	+BBCB	BBCB
C24	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	D3+4	D3+4
C27	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBCA	BBCA
C29					SDN
C30					LEH
C31	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves		ArqA
C32					_local
C33					com7
C34					com8
C38					ArqB
C39				+ArqB
C42				SDN
C45				ArqA
C48		C5_waves	C5_waves
C55_{tv_off}					com7_{tv_off}
C56_{tv_off}					COM8_{tv_off}

_{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	100kW
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-7dB) 20kW
com7, com8	(-9.7dB) 10.8kW
SDN, ARQA, ARQB	(-10dB) 10kW
LEH	(-13dB) 5kW
Analogue 5, Mux 1, Mux 2, Mux A, Mux B	(-14dB) 4kW
Mux C, Mux D	(-17dB) 2kW

Local transmitter maps

Craigkelly Freeview Craigkelly DAB Craigkelly TV region BBC Scotland STV Central (Edinburgh micro region)

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Craigkelly 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. Craigkelly 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

Tuesday, 16 November 2021

Transmitter engineering

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10:37 AM

- Craigkelly transmitter: Possible effect on TV week commencing 15/11/2021 Possible Pixelation or flickering on some or all [DUK]

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Monday, 22 November 2021

Transmitter engineering

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6:09 AM

- Craigkelly transmitter: Possible effect on TV week commencing 22/11/2021 Possible Pixelation or flickering on some or all [DUK]

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Sunday, 13 March 2022

Colin brown
5:20 PM

Programs on com5 such as 11 and 36 breaking up. Com5 seems to be on . strength below 20% on my box.

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Chris.SE

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6:52 PM

Colin brown:

There are no reported problems that I can find at and it's not currently listed for Planned .
(Note - the listing at the top of the page is out of date as the site owner hasn't found time to do all the since Clearance. COM6 is on , not 38.)

If you are correctly tuned, Other than that, check that your aerial seems intact and pointing in the correct direction with the rods (or squashed Xs) horizontal and that your downlead looks undamaged and isn't flapping in the wind.
Also check all you coax plugs, connections, flyleads etc, unplug connectors check for corrosion or other problems and reconnect them, especially if you've changed anything about in your installation recently. Flyleads can be a common problem, try swapping them.
Aerial misalignments, problematic connections, water ingress etc. can seem to affect of just AN individual or several multiplexes.

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Wednesday, 6 July 2022

Rab Harris
2:55 PM
South Queensferry

I receive TV transmission from post code EH30 9QF. Last week I believe the 30th June22 I stopped receiving a for Ch107 and now the channel listing for ch107 has gone from my programming guide on my BT TV MyView box. Reading some blogs there is a TV channel switch off because its low power on Com7 is being removed to allow mobile to operate band 5. Why is Craigkelly no longer transmitting BBC News HD on CH107 in Com7 but all the other Com7 channels e.g. Ch108 ok? Is there anything I can do to get the BBC Nnews HD signal back?

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Mike Davison
3:15 PM
Wetherby

Rab Harris:
Short answer regarding - No. The areas that were served by COM7 on Ch.55 have
all lost BBC NewsHD, and also BBC4 HD and but plans seem to be afoot to bring them
back. I haven't seen any plans for BBC News HD to return as a channel. It is still on .

is on the original DVB-T2 , BBC B(See list above).

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Chris.SE

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10:27 PM

Rab Harris:

Did you not see the -up messages on all the that were on COM7 explaining what was happening to them?
would only be available on iPlayer or after 30th June.

COM7 and previously COM8 were only ever temporary HD multiplexes to stimulated public interest in HD. The BBCB HD/PSB3 is the only other HD at this time.

As a result of improved compression techniques with new encoders, more space has been created on PSB3 to accommodate BBC4 HD and (they time share, as do & BBC3 HD). The new encoders are part and parcel of enabling regional news on BBC1 HD and more local regionalisation on .

The latest BBC information is at https://www.bbc.co.uk//work-warning/news/waw-com7/#/notification

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Wednesday, 3 August 2022

Graham Webster
4:58 PM

Hello,

I performed a complete TV reset . Nearest Tx is , Fife.

Manually tunned the TV for only channels from Craigkelly. Com 5 is missing. eg. no on channel 51.

Kind regards,
Graham Webster

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StevensOnln1

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6:15 PM

Graham Webster: Did you mean COM5 on UHF 31? There are no multiplexes above channel 48 since the completion of the clearance and closure of COM7.

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Thursday, 4 August 2022

Chris.SE

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5:27 AM

Graham Webster:

I think there's been some confusion here, no doubt not helped by the listing at the top of the page having an error as well as the "change over time" section not being updated as the site owner has not had time to do all he changes since the Clearance and COM7 closure.

LCN51 is carried on COM6/ArqB and is on UHF at .
See https://www..co.uk/corporate/platform-management/channel-listings-industry-professionals for which channels are carried on which .

In the multiplex order BBCA/PSB1, D3&4/PSB2, BBCB HD/PSB3, SDN/COM4, ArqA/COM5, ArqB/COM6, Local
The UHF channels you should be tuned to are , , , , , C37 & .

Depending on your Location, you may/may not receive the Local multiplex.

Just to add to the complexity, Craigkelly is currently listed for Planned with "Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels".
There is also some "Tropospheric ducting" affecting in different parts of the country at differing times, this can result in from distant transmitters in Europe or the UK although this is mainly affecting the south of the country at present.

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