Full Freeview on the Durris (Aberdeenshire, Scotland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Durris (Aberdeenshire, Scotland) transmitter which serves 180,000 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 Durris (Aberdeenshire, 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 Durris 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 Durris transmitter?
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 173km southwest (224°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
STV News 0.4m homes 1.5%
from Aberdeen AB12 3QH, 23km northeast (52°)
to STV North (Aberdeen) region - 76 masts.
Are there any self-help relays?
| Aberdeen (old Town) | Transposer | 2 km N city centre | 837 homes (dealer estimate) |
| Aberdeen-talisman | Transposer | 1 km SW city centre | 100 homes |
| Fyvie | Active deflector | 37 km NW Aberdeen | 10 homes Hotel |
| Glen Tanar | Active deflector | 11 km E Ballater | 13 homes |
| Glenlivet | Transposer | 15 km E Grantown-on- Spey | 70 homes School |
| Haughton House C/p | Transposer | 1 km N Aford Aberdeenshire | 1 homes 150 caravans |
| Oyne | Active deflector | 33 km NW Aberdeen | 11 homes |
| Strathdon A | Transposer | 60 km W Aberdeen | 25 homes |
| Strathdon B | Transposer | 25 homes | |
| Strathdon C | Transposer | ‘appreciable population' | |
| Strathdon D | Active deflector | ||
| Strathdon E | Active deflector | ||
| Strathdon F | Active deflector |
How will the Durris (Aberdeenshire, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1961-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2010 | 2010-13 | 3 Oct 2018 | ||||
| VHF | A K T | W | W | A K T | W T | ||||
| C9 | ITVwaves | ||||||||
| C22 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C23 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C25 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C26 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C28 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C29 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C30 | _local | ArqB | |||||||
| C32 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | com7 | |||||
| C35 | com8 | ||||||||
| C41 | _local | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off | ||||||||
| C67 | C5waves | C5waves |
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 Sep 10 and 15 Sep 10.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 500kW | |
| Analogue 5, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 100kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 50kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A* | (-14dB) 20kW | |
| com7, com8 | (-15.4dB) 14.5kW | |
| Mux B* | (-17dB) 10kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-20dB) 5kW |
Local transmitter maps
Durris Freeview Durris TV region BBC Scotland STV North (Aberdeen micro region)Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Durris transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldSaturday, 22 April 2017
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Alison Gerrie The Alison Gerrie1:03 PM
We are having great problems losing signal on our digital TV and als through our digital box. This is the thirdweekend with no tv. During the week it is all fine. We stay in Kingswells at the far eastern side. There isnothing wrong with our TV and we have an outside arial.something somewhere is put on and blocking our signal.today put on football at 12 noon and just at 12.13 pm it just off totally with no signal at all in any channel. Can you please help?
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StevensOnln12:59 PM
Alison Gerrie The Alison Gerrie: It sounds like whatever is being switched on is causing electrical interference which drowns out the TV signal (quite likely something with an electric motor). It's almost certainly something in or around your property, or a near neighbour, so look for things which are being used when you loose signal. DIY or garden equipment are strong possibilities.
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Friday, 5 May 2017
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Jonathan Gordon10:34 PM
Aberdeen
Ab24 2be none of the c32 channels on i.e. signal strength zero signal quality zero.
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Jonathan Gordon: Your just 25km from the transmitter, so I suspect something drastic has happened to your system, and its just about hanging on on most of the muxes.
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Saturday, 6 May 2017
MikeP
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
Jonathan Gordon:
Does your TV have a DVB-T2 tuner capable of receiving HD transmissions? If not, that is why Channel 32 is showing no signal.
If it does, then you need to check all the aerial cables and connections carefully.
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2am11:21 AM
Seems to be back up now after being off most of evening(10pm till 2am bed time)
I have 3 DVB-T2 capable boxes,all different makes.All were the same just for the c32 channels all others were full strength.
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Sunday, 21 May 2017
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Rod 4:00 PM
I am unable to receive STV2 on channel 30 from the durris mast. The reception of all the other Freeview channels is a perfect 10 . The aerial (a log periodic )is outside approx 20ft up on a pole . This channel is classed as local and I am assuming that this means that the signal is only focused towards Aberdeen and not to the rest of Aberdeenshire. I am unable to find any technical data on this local service. Any help would be appreciated . Thanks.
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Monday, 22 May 2017
MikeP
7:40 AM
7:40 AM
Rod:
We really need a full posy code in cases like this so that we can cehck whether your location is served by that transmitter and whether it can receive the local multiplex.
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Rod 12:00 PM
Banchory
MikeP:
Sorry about that I put the post code in the wrong box . My postcode is AB31 4RL and I am on a hillside facing the durris mast which I can see approx 15 miles away , so my aerial is almost line of sight .
Thanks
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Tuesday, 23 May 2017
MikeP
7:59 AM
7:59 AM
Rod:
Thank you for that, now we can see that your reception from Durris should be very good, perhaps too good? If you have signal strengths of 100% showing then there is a chance that you have too much signal and that is known to give several problems, depending on the behaviour of the tuner fitted to your equipment with such a strong signal. So it is worth checking the signal strengths shown on your TV for all the multiplexes. The ideal is normally to have 55%-85% on SD channels and between 65% and 85% for HD channels, less than this is a problem as is more than those figures. Also check that your equipment has a DVB-T2 tuner system to receive HD transmission such as BBC1 on LCN 101 (uses PSB3), BBC4 HD on LCN 106 (uses Com7) and More 4 + 1 on LCN 86 (uses Com8). If you can get those channelks that would confirm that you are able to receive all the available multiplexes from Durris.
However, there is no listing shown for any transmissions on the frequency of channel 30. Logical channel 30 carries 5Star and STV2 is not mentioned at all if you look at the list shown in the 'Freeview Map' link. Likewise it is not shown in the data shown in the 'digitaluk trade' link. So unless there has been an additional channel allocation that is not shown then it appears that STV2 is not available in your area served by Durris.
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