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The symbol shows the location of the Ballantrae (South Ayrshire, 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 Ballantrae (South Ayrshire, Scotland) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Ballantrae 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
C32 (562.0MHz)89mDTG-2W
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
C34 (578.0MHz)89mDTG-2W
Channel icons
3 STV (SD) (Border (Scotland)), 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 (Yorkshire Emley Moor), 35 STV+1 (Yorkshire Emley Moor),

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C35 (586.0MHz)89mDTG-2W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Scotland, 102 BBC Two HD Scotland, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Granada), 103 STV HD (ITV Granada), 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 Ballantrae (South Ayrshire, 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 Ballantrae transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 95km north-northeast (30°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
regional news image
ITV Lookaround 0.1m homes 0.4%
from Carlisle CA1 3NT, 136km east (101°)
to ITV Border Scotland region - 27 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with Tyne Tees

How will the Ballantrae (South Ayrshire, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20092009-132013-182013-1711 Sep 2019
C/D EC/D EC/D EC/D EC/D E TC/D E TA K T
C32BBCA
C34D3+4
C35BBCB
C49tv_off D3+4D3+4
C54tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4wavesBBCBBBCBBBCB
C58tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBCABBCABBCA
C61ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4
C64BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves

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 24 Jun 09 and 22 Jul 09.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4 6W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-4.8dB) 2W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Caldbeck Scotland transmitter area

Sep 1961-Feb 2004Border Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Ballantrae 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.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

Radiation patterns withheld

Comments
Sunday, 16 February 2014
Transmitter engineering
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7:23 AM

BALLANTRAE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 03:10 on 13 Feb to 05:52 on 13 Feb, BBC Digital TV Off Air from 21:49 on 12 Feb to 01:09 on 13 Feb, BBC Digital TV Off Air from 21:26 on 12 Feb to 21:36 on 12 Feb, HD Digital TV Off Air from 03:10 on 13 Feb to 05:52 o [BBC]

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Monday, 17 February 2014
Transmitter engineering
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4:24 AM

BALLANTRAE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 21:49 on 12 Feb to 01:09 on 13 Feb, BBC Digital TV Off Air from 03:10 on 13 Feb to 05:52 on 13 Feb, HD Digital TV Off Air from 03:10 on 13 Feb to 05:52 on 13 Feb, HD Digital TV Off Air from 21:49 on 12 Feb to 01:09 on [BBC]

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Transmitter engineering
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10:24 AM

BALLANTRAE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 21:49 on 12 Feb to 01:09 on 13 Feb, BBC Digital TV Off Air from 03:10 on 13 Feb to 05:52 on 13 Feb, HD Digital TV Off Air from 21:49 on 12 Feb to 01:09 on 13 Feb, HD Digital TV Off Air from 03:10 on 13 Feb to 05:52 on [BBC]

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4:24 PM

BALLANTRAE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 03:10 on 13 Feb to 05:52 on 13 Feb, BBC Digital TV Off Air from 21:49 on 12 Feb to 01:09 on 13 Feb, HD Digital TV Off Air from 03:10 on 13 Feb to 05:52 on 13 Feb, HD Digital TV Off Air from 21:49 on 12 Feb to 01:09 on [BBC]

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Monday, 25 July 2016
Transmitter engineering
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9:09 AM

BALLANTRAE transmitter - Possible service interruptions [DUK]

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Tuesday, 2 August 2016
Transmitter engineering
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12:09 AM

BALLANTRAE transmitter - Possible service interruptions [DUK]

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Tuesday, 16 February 2021
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Tom Davidson
2:48 PM
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Post code KA26 0NG cannot get freeview as from 0900 today

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Chris.SE
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5:43 PM

Tom Davidson:

Unfortunately there's been some inconsistency in the listing of Planned Engineering and Faults, but I did eventually manage to find a report from the BBC - From 9:37am to 2:39pm on 16th Feb 2021 Off the air due to essential engineering.

If you retuned earlier when you had no signal, it'll probably have cleared all correct tuning (or even retuned to some unreliable very weak signals from another transmitter).
If your set did an auto-retune by itself (turn that function off if you can, it's more trouble than its worth), It'd have the same result.

So do another retune now if you haven't got all your signals and programmes back.

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Thursday, 17 June 2021
Transmitter engineering
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4:08 PM

Ballantrae transmitter - Ballantrae transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 14/06/2021 Possible service interruptions [DUK]

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Friday, 11 August 2023
Transmitter engineering
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1:47 PM

Ballantrae transmitter - Ballantrae transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 07/08/2023 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]

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