Freeview Light on the Aberfoyle (Stirling, Scotland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Aberfoyle (Stirling, Scotland) transmitter which serves 700 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 Aberfoyle (Stirling, 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 Aberfoyle (Stirling, Scotland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Blaze, Blaze +1, CBS Reality, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, YAAAS!, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, E4 Extra, Film4 +1, Food Network, GB News, GREAT! movies, GREAT! movies action, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, pick, Pop Player, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky News, Smithsonian Channel, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, That's TV (UK), Together TV, W, Yesterday +1.
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 Aberfoyle 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 | C32 (562.0MHz) | 122m | DTG- | 18W |
 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 | V max | C34 (578.0MHz) | 122m | DTG- | 18W |
 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 ITV1 +1 (STV Edinburgh), 35 STV+1 (STV Edinburgh), | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C35 (586.0MHz) | 122m | DTG- | 18W |
 56 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Scotland, 102 BBC Two HD (England), 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 43 Freeview channels?
The Aberfoyle (Stirling, Scotland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Blaze, Blaze +1, CBS Reality, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, YAAAS!, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, E4 Extra, Film4 +1, Food Network, GB News, GREAT! movies, GREAT! movies action, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, pick, Pop Player, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky News, Smithsonian Channel, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, That's TV (UK), Together TV, W, Yesterday +1.
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 Aberfoyle transmitter?
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 34km south (172°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
STV News 0.5m homes 1.7%
from Edinburgh EH3 9QG, 77km east-southeast (109°)
to STV Central (Edinburgh) region - 8 masts.
How will the Aberfoyle (Stirling, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 3 Oct 2018 | |||||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | A K T | |||||
| C32 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C34 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C35 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C54tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| C55tv_off | BBCA | ||||||||
| C58tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C59tv_off | BBCB | ||||||||
| C61 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
| C64 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
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 | 87W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-6.8dB) 18W |
Local transmitter maps
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Thursday, 30 May 2019
Transmitter engineering
11:09 AM
11:09 AM
ABERFOYLE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 10:41 today, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 10:41 today. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
2:09 PM
2:09 PM
ABERFOYLE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 10:41 today to 11:25 today, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 10:41 today to 11:25 today. [BBC]
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Friday, 31 May 2019
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
ABERFOYLE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 10:41 yesterday to 11:25 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 10:41 yesterday to 11:25 yesterday. [BBC]
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Saturday, 1 June 2019
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
ABERFOYLE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 10:41 on 30 May to 11:25 on 30 May, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 10:41 on 30 May to 11:25 on 30 May. [BBC]
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Monday, 21 September 2020
Transmitter engineering
4:28 PM
4:28 PM
ABERFOYLE transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to essential engineering from 21 Sep 11:51 until 21 Sep 12:33. . [BBC]
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Tuesday, 29 September 2020
Transmitter engineering
4:33 AM
4:33 AM
ABERFOYLE transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to essential engineering from 21 Sep 11:51 until 21 Sep 12:33. . [BBC]
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Sunday, 25 October 2020
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Duncan Tannahill5:19 PM
I can only get BBC stations after several days of poor reception on all channels. Have re-tuned and lost all non-BBC channels.
Aberfoyle transmitter.
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Chris.SE9:12 PM
Duncan Tannahill:
I can't find any listing of Planned Engineering or Faults at the transmitter either by Freeview or the BBC.
When was the last time you tried a retune?
I would check that your aerial seems intact and pointing in the correct direction and that your downlead looks undamaged (especially if it is old). Also check all your coax plugs, connections, flyleads etc, unplug connectors check for corrosion or other problems and reconnect them. Flyleads are a common problem, try swapping/changing them.
See what signal strengths and quality you are getting for the multiplexes (groups of channels) shown in your TV's tuning section.
Problematic connections, water ingress etc. can seem to affect reception of just an individual or several multiplexes.
If everything seems ok, try a further retune but do so as follows -
Unplug the aerial and do an automatic retune which should clear all previous tuning as nothing should be found.
Plug the aerial back in and carry out a manual tune (if possible) for UHF channels C32 (PSB1/BBCA multiplex), C34 (PSB2/D3&4 multiplex) and if you have an HD/T2 tuner then C35 (PSB3/BBCB HD). If a manual tune isn't possible just do an automatic tune.
If you are still having problems, post back with more detail about your installation and a full postcode so that we can look at predicted reception at your location.
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Tuesday, 5 October 2021
Transmitter engineering
8:44 PM
8:44 PM
ABERFOYLE transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to a fault from 5 Oct 19:09 until 5 Oct 21:03. Off the air due to a fault from 5 Oct 18:37 until 5 Oct 18:58. . [BBC]
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Friday, 12 May 2023
Transmitter engineering
11:09 AM
11:09 AM
Aberfoyle transmitter - Aberfoyle transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 08/05/2023 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]
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