Full Freeview on the Darvel (East Ayrshire, Scotland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Darvel (East Ayrshire, Scotland) transmitter which serves 150,000 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 Darvel (East Ayrshire, Scotland) transmitter._______
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 Darvel 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 Darvel transmitter?
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 31km north (1°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
STV News 1.3m homes 4.8%
from Glasgow G51 1PQ, 31km north (2°)
to STV Central (Glasgow) region - 94 masts.
Are there any self-help relays?
| Craigie Gardens | Transposer | 1 homes 90 caravans | |
| Inversnaid | Active deflector | 35 km N Dumbarton | 8 homes Hotel caravan park |
How will the Darvel (East Ayrshire, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 5 Sep 2018 | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | W T | |||||
| C22 | -BBCA | BBCA | |||||||
| C23 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | SDN | |||||
| C25 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||||||
| C26 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ArqA | |||||
| C28 | BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
| C29 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ArqB | |||||
| C30 | _local | ||||||||
| C31 | com7 | ||||||||
| C32 | SDN | ||||||||
| C33 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C34 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C35 | C5waves | C5waves | ArqB | ||||||
| C37 | com8 | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_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 11 May 11 and 25 May 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-5 | 100kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 10kW | |
| com8 | (-10.9dB) 8.19kW | |
| com7 | (-11.2dB) 7.5kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-14dB) 4kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-17dB) 2kW |
Local transmitter maps
Darvel Freeview Darvel DAB Darvel TV region BBC Scotland STV Central (Glasgow micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Darvel transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldThursday, 11 May 2017
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Sewme8:25 PM
Still can't get ch78. Tv (which is new) won't store channels and I once had ch 10, 18 and 78 but next day all were gone and tv said no data? So, retuned and all channels started at 800, there were 10 in total. When I looked at tv info it said signal was central Scotland but this changed next day and signal strength is always less than 10! Any help appreciated as to is about to go out the window!
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Friday, 12 May 2017
MikeP
9:09 AM
Trowbridge
9:09 AM
Trowbridge
Sewme:
To offer any meaningful advice we need to check what the reception conditions are at your location, so please give a full post code so we can check.
From what you say, I would suspect that you have either too little signal or too much - but can't tell without the post code. It would also help if you give the signal strengths of channels that do work.
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Wednesday, 26 July 2017
Transmitter engineering
11:32 AM
11:32 AM
DARVEL transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 10:54 today to 10:55 today. [BBC]
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Thursday, 27 July 2017
Transmitter engineering
5:32 AM
5:32 AM
DARVEL transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 10:54 yesterday to 10:55 yesterday. [BBC]
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Friday, 28 July 2017
Transmitter engineering
5:32 AM
5:32 AM
DARVEL transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 10:54 on 26 Jul to 10:55 on 26 Jul. [BBC]
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Friday, 22 September 2017
Transmitter engineering
11:32 AM
11:32 AM
DARVEL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 10:05 today. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
2:34 PM
2:34 PM
DARVEL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 10:05 today to 10:42 today. [BBC]
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Saturday, 23 September 2017
Transmitter engineering
5:31 AM
5:31 AM
DARVEL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 10:05 yesterday to 10:42 yesterday. [BBC]
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Sunday, 24 September 2017
Transmitter engineering
5:31 AM
5:31 AM
DARVEL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 10:05 on 22 Sep to 10:42 on 22 Sep. [BBC]
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Wednesday, 27 September 2017
Transmitter engineering
2:32 PM
2:32 PM
DARVEL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Reduced Quality from 13:43 today. [BBC]
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