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The symbol shows the location of the Dunkeld (Perth and Kinross, Scotland) transmitter which serves less than 500 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 Dunkeld (Perth and Kinross, Scotland) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Dunkeld 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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
C41+ (634.2MHz)290mDTG-16W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) Scotland, 2 BBC Two Scotland, 7 BBC Alba HD, 23 BBC Three, 24 BBC Four (Scotland SD), 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 13 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
C47 (682.0MHz)290mDTG-16W
Channel icons
3 STV (SD) (STV North (Dundee 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, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (STV Edinburgh), 35 STV+1 (STV Edinburgh),

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C44 (658.0MHz)290mDTG-16W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Scotland, 102 BBC Two HD Scotland, 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

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels

The Dunkeld (Perth and Kinross, Scotland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, GREAT! action, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, GREAT! romance, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, 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 Dunkeld transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 90km south-southwest (213°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
regional news image
STV News 0.2m homes 0.8%
from Dundee DD1 4QB, 37km east-southeast (108°)
to STV North (Dundee) region - 24 masts.

How will the Dunkeld (Perth and Kinross, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20102010-1327 Nov 2019
B E TB E TB E TB E K TB E K T
C41ITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves+BBCABBCA
C44BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCBBBCB
C47C4wavesC4wavesC4wavesD3+4D3+4
C51tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves

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?

Analogue 1-4 80W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 16W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Angus transmitter area

Sep 1961-Jun 1997Grampian Television
Jun 1997-Dec 2014STV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Dunkeld 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.

Comments
Thursday, 4 June 2020
Transmitter engineering
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4:34 AM

DUNKELD transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to essential engineering from 2 Jun 10:08 until 2 Jun 10:15. . [BBC]

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Thursday, 2 July 2020
Transmitter engineering
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7:28 AM

DUNKELD transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to essential engineering from 30 Jun 13:54 until 30 Jun 14:39. . [BBC]

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Sunday, 20 September 2020
Transmitter engineering
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4:28 PM

DUNKELD transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to a fault from 19 Sep 12:15 until 19 Sep 15:53. Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 19 Sep 07:10 until 19 Sep 12:15. . [BBC]

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Wednesday, 14 October 2020
Transmitter engineering
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7:28 PM

DUNKELD transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to essential engineering from 14 Oct 10:03 until 14 Oct 10:06. . [BBC]

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Tuesday, 2 March 2021
Transmitter engineering
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4:36 PM

DUNKELD transmitter - Freeview: Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 2 Mar 14:30. . [BBC]

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Wednesday, 3 March 2021
Transmitter engineering
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7:49 AM

DUNKELD transmitter - Freeview: Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 2 Mar 21:05 until 2 Mar 23:08. Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 2 Mar 14:30 until 2 Mar 19:17. . [BBC]

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Wednesday, 19 May 2021
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Russell Cobban
10:49 AM

located at inver caravan park Dunkeld having intermitting pixelating
from stv and channel 4,bbc channels ok.

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Chris.SE
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12:25 PM

Russell Cobban:

Can't find any reports of faults listed by Freeview or the BBC, and the transmitter isn't currently listed for Planned Engineering.
Check that you are correctly tuned to the UHF channels for this transmitter (as listed above). Check all your connections and that the aerial is pointing the correct way (also vertical polarisation). There is another Relay transmitter close by - Dunkeld Town which is even lower power - UHF channels C23, C30, C26 for PSBs1-3 and in a different direction.
Post back with a full postcode and which way your aerial is pointing if problems continue.

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12:33 PM
Dunkeld

Russell Cobban:

Additional information - If the site postcode is PH8 0JR the aerial should be pointing at the Dunkeld transmitter 3km away, bearing 102 degreees that's 12 degrees S of due E.
The Dunkeld Town transmitter (bearing 34 degrees - slightly N of NW) is not predicted to give good reception of the PSB1&2 multiplexes as it's very lower power even though it's closer (1km).

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Friday, 18 August 2023
Transmitter engineering
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10:47 AM

Dunkeld transmitter - Dunkeld transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 14/08/2023 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]

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