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The symbol shows the location of the Selkirk (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmitter which serves 24,000 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 Selkirk (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) mast?

Selkirk transmitter - Selkirk transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 25/03/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels Digital tick


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Which Freeview channels does the Selkirk 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
 H max
C32 (562.0MHz)522mDTG-10,000W
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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
 H max
C34- (577.8MHz)522mDTG-10,000W
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
 H max
C35 (586.0MHz)522mDTG-10,000W
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

COM4
SDN
 H -3dB
C33 (570.0MHz)522mDTG-85,000W
Channel icons
20 Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 Dave ja vu, 58 ITVBe +1, 59 ITV3 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 78 TCC, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 89 ITV4 +1, 91 WildEarth, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 267 Al Jazeera English, plus 30 others

COM5
ArqA
 H -3dB
C36 (594.0MHz)522mDTG-85,000W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 Yesterday +1, 75 That's 90s, 233 Sky News, plus 11 others

COM6
ArqB
 H -3dB
C48- (689.8MHz)522mDTG-85,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 W, 27 Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! romance, 56 That's TV (UK), 61 GREAT! movies extra, 63 GREAT! romance mix, 71 That’s 60s, 73 HobbyMaker, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

DTG-8 64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

The Selkirk (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .

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 Selkirk transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 100km west-northwest (291°)
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.
regional news image
ITV Lookaround 0.1m homes 0.4%
from Carlisle CA1 3NT, 75km south (187°)
to ITV Border Scotland region - 27 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with Tyne Tees

Are there any self-help relays?

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How will the Selkirk (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmission frequencies change over time?

1961-80s1984-971997-981998-20082008-132013-182013-1714 Aug 2019
VHFC/D EC/D EC/D EC/D EC/D E TC/D E TK T
C13ITVwaves
C32BBCA
C33SDN
C34D3+4
C35BBCB
C36ArqA
C48ArqB
C50tv_off BBCABBCA
C52tv_offC5wavesC5waves
C53tv_offArqAArqAArqA
C55tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBCBBBCBBBCB
C57tv_offSDNSDNSDN
C59tv_offITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves-D3+4-D3+4-D3+4
C60tv_off -ArqB-ArqB
C62BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCA
C65C4wavesC4wavesC4waves

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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 6 Nov 08 and 20 Nov 08.

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

Analogue 1-5 50kW
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 10kW
SDN, ARQA, ARQB(-10dB) 5kW
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*(-12.2dB) 3kW
Mux C*, Mux D*(-20dB) 500W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Selkirk 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.

Comments
Wednesday, 14 October 2020
Transmitter engineering
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10:27 PM

SELKIRK transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 12 Oct 10:36 until 12 Oct 15:20. Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 11 Oct 10:02 until 11 Oct 15:28. Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 10 Oct 10: [BBC]

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Friday, 16 October 2020
Transmitter engineering
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7:28 AM

SELKIRK transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 12 Oct 10:36 until 12 Oct 15:20. Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 11 Oct 10:02 until 11 Oct 15:28. . [BBC]

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Saturday, 17 October 2020
Transmitter engineering
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7:28 AM

SELKIRK transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 12 Oct 10:36 until 12 Oct 15:20. . [BBC]

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Saturday, 7 November 2020
Transmitter engineering
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4:30 PM

SELKIRK transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 7 Nov 13:21 until 7 Nov 15:37. . [BBC]

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Thursday, 26 November 2020
Transmitter engineering
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7:25 PM

SELKIRK transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 26 Nov 10:10 until 26 Nov 14:04. . [BBC]

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Saturday, 2 January 2021
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colin Tate
3:58 PM

why dont i receive from the freeview selkirkTx..the channels 33 and 35 which have the HD facility....
all other channels come in great....very good picture.....have reset all channels andmanually retuned to
the other channels namely 32..34..36 and 48 cannot get the hd channels namely 33 and 35

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colin Tate
4:01 PM

sorry...should have entered outdoor antenna...good quality

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Chris.SE
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10:27 PM

colin Tate:

Hi Colin. First to clarify, UHF C33 is the SDN multiplex which is not an HD multiplex. The BBCB HD multiplex on C35 is the only HD multiplex transmitted from Selkirk. The temporary COM7 is the other which is only broadcast from 25 main transmitters in the UK.
You do need a receiver with a HD/T2 tuner to get HD multiplexes, but if you are getting the the ArqA & B (COMs 5&6) multiplexes OK, you shouldn't have any problem with SDN/COM4. However a full postcode is needed to check the predicted reception at your location to be sure there aren't any specific reception issues related to SDN/COM4.

Have a look in your TV's tuning section and see what Signal Strength and Quality (or BER) you get for the PSB1 & 2 multiplexes compared to COMs 5 & 6 and post the figures.

There doesn't appear to be any current faults listed by Freeview or the BBC and the transmitter isn't on a Planned Engineering list (that doesn't mean there isn't an unreported fault but I would have expected to see more posts in various places if there were).

See Channel listings for Industry Professionals | Freeview for which channels are on which multiplex.
How long have you had the problem with C33 & C35?

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Friday, 8 January 2021
Transmitter engineering
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7:54 AM

SELKIRK transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 8 Jan 03:21 until 8 Jan 03:28. . [BBC]

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Thursday, 17 June 2021
Transmitter engineering
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3:33 PM

SELKIRK transmitter - DAB: Low power due to essential engineering from 17 Jun 10:03 until 17 Jun 15:29. Low power due to essential engineering from 16 Jun 10:04 until 16 Jun 15:25. Low power due to essential engineering from 15 Jun 10:03 until 15 Jun 15:26. . [BBC]

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