Full Freeview on the Angus (Dundee City, Scotland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Angus (Dundee City, Scotland) transmitter which serves 130,000 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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Angus (Dundee City, Scotland) mast?
Angus transmitter - Angus transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 05/06/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Angus 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.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Angus transmitter?
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 112km southwest (228°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
STV News 0.2m homes 0.8%
from Dundee DD1 4QB, 11km south (177°)
to STV North (Dundee) region - 24 masts.
Are there any self-help relays?
| Glen Cova A | Active deflector | 40 km N of Dundee | |
| Glen Cova B | Active deflector |
How will the Angus (Dundee City, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1965-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2010 | 2010-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 27 Nov 2019 | ||
| VHF | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | W T | W T | ||
| C11 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C31 | com7 | com7 | |||||||
| C33 | SDN | ||||||||
| C34 | _local | ||||||||
| C36 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C37 | com8 | com8 | |||||||
| C39 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C42 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C45 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C48 | _local | _local | _local | ArqB | |||||
| C49tv_off | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C53tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||
| C54tv_off | SDN | SDN | SDN | ||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off | ||||||||
| C57tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||
| C58tv_off | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ||||||
| C60tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -BBCA | -BBCA | ||||
| C61 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C63 | 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 4 Aug 10 and 18 Aug 10.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | 20kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-3dB) 10kW | |
| com7 | (-6dB) 5kW | |
| com8 | (-6.1dB) 4.9kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-7dB) 4kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-10dB) 2kW | |
| Analogue 1-4 | (-23dB) 100W |
Local transmitter maps
Angus Freeview Angus DAB Angus TV region BBC Scotland STV North (Dundee micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Angus transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldFriday, 6 December 2019
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Shaun1:41 PM
Dundee
DD4 8XJ
Transmitter has changed for Dundee last week, picture and digital service was fine after retune.
However this week signal has gone to analog with no digital service after retune.
Signal information bit error level is high and no signal strength.
Indoor aerial has been fine in past.
Auto tuned this morning and I got a good signal and picture but tried later and bit error level is high again
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Richard Fielden6:29 PM
Yateley
Richard Fielden: Thankyou for your comments re-my problems with Hanington which have helped. Having tried another downlink from my splitter it points to a poor connection somewhere in the previous downlink. Because the com mux s are at a lower power than the big boys I think they just can't break through: no problem at all with even the HD channel signal though which misled me to blame the transmitter. On the other downlink although the power and quality is somewhat erratic it does not seem to affect the TV picture - clever this digital stuff!
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Saturday, 7 December 2019
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Chris.SE2:45 AM
Shaun:
The Angus transmitter has had Planned Engineering this week with "Possible service interruptions". It's usually not a good idea to retune when you have no signal, you just lose the correctly tuned channels.
As you are close to the transmitter and not had previous problems with your indoor aerial, then if you now seem to have all your channels, signals may continue to vary for as long as the engineering continues.
If you are missing channels, when the signals look good on the multiplexes that you do have, unplug the aerial and do an automatic retune to clear memory of previous tuning, plug the aerial back in and do the retune again.
From recent experience, in practice, "Possible service interruptions" seems to include "weak signal" as well.
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Chris.SE3:04 AM
Richard Fielden:
Although I can't advise what your predicted reception might be without a full postcode, you are well within the coverage area for Hannington. Even though the COM multiplexes are half the power of the PSBs, you should have no trouble receiving them. As you've discovered things like splitters etc. should also be checked. Flyleads are also a common problem. Always try swapping ports on splitters etc. and swap flyleads about to try and eliminate things and narrow the source of the problems.
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Wednesday, 10 June 2020
Transmitter engineering
7:29 AM
7:29 AM
ANGUS transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 2 Jul 11:12 until 2 Jul 13:42. Off the air due to a fault from 30 Apr 07:33 until 30 Apr 09:08. . [BBC]
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Tuesday, 23 June 2020
Transmitter engineering
1:28 PM
1:28 PM
ANGUS transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 23 Jun 13:18. . [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
7:28 PM
7:28 PM
ANGUS transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 23 Jun 13:18 until 23 Jun 13:49. . [BBC]
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Wednesday, 24 June 2020
Transmitter engineering
4:28 PM
4:28 PM
ANGUS transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 24 Jun 10:06 until 24 Jun 12:25. Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 23 Jun 13:18 until 23 Jun 13:49. . [BBC]
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Tuesday, 30 June 2020
Transmitter engineering
7:28 PM
7:28 PM
ANGUS transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 24 Jun 10:06 until 24 Jun 12:25. . [BBC]
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Monday, 17 August 2020
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Steve 1:07 PM
Hi, for some time now, stations on channel 36 from the Angus transmitter have been poor or non existent at various times of the day. No other stations are affected. Other people in my village are having similar problems. Obviously I have reset my tv to re-scan all channels, sometimes this results in no stations found on channel 36. This has never been a problem before.
Something must have changed at the Angus transmitter, but they say everything is working correctly.
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