The symbol shows the location of theWest Linton (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmitter which serves1,100 homes. The bright green areas shown where the signal from this transmitter is strong,dark green areas are poorer signals. Thoseparts 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 West Linton (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmitter.

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex■ List by channel number■ List by channel name

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Which Freeview channels does the West Linton transmitter broadcast?

If you have any kind of Freeview fault, follow thisFreeview reset procedure first.

Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.

Mux	H/V	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	Vmax	C30 (546.0MHz)	323m	DTG-	5W
	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 others601 BBC RB 1,700 BBC Radio 1,701 BBC Radio 1Xtra,702 BBC Radio 2,703 BBC Radio 3,704 BBC Radio 4 (FM),705 BBC Radio 5 Live,706 BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra,707 BBC Radio 6 Music,708 BBC Radio 4 Extra,709 BBC Asian Network,710 BBC World Service,712 BBC Radio nan Gaidheal,
PSB2 D3+4	Vmax	C23 (490.0MHz)	323m	DTG-	5W
	3 STV (SD) (STV Central (Edinburgh micro region)),4 Channel 4 (SD)Scotland ads,5 Channel 5,6 ITV 2,10 ITV3,13 E4,14 Film4,15 Channel 4 +1Scotland ads,18 More4,26 ITV4,28 ITVBe,30 E4 +1,35 ITV1 +1 (STV Edinburgh),35 STV+1 (STV Edinburgh),71 That's TV 3,
PSB3 BBCB	Vmax	C26 (514.0MHz)	323m	DTG-	5W
	46 5SELECT,57 U&Eden,101 BBC One HD Scotland,102 BBC Two HD Scotland,103 ITV 1 HD (STV West),103 STV HD (STV West),104 Channel 4 HDScotland ads,105 Channel 5 HD,106 BBC Four HD,108 BBC Scotland HD,203 CBBC HD,204 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others66 TBN UK,

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 43 Freeview channels?

TheWest Linton (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) mast is apublic service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide thesecommercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! movies, GREAT! player, GREAT! romance, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, YAAAS!, Legend, PBS America, POP UP, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's Melody, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Yesterday, U&Drama 1, U&W.

If you want to watch these channels, your aerial must point to one of the 80Full service Freeview transmitters. For more information see thewill there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? page.

Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the West Linton transmitter?

BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes9.2%
fromGlasgow G51 1DA, 61km west-northwest (284°)
toBBC Scotland region - 230 masts.

STV News 0.5m homes1.7%
fromEdinburgh EH3 9QG, 24km north-northeast (20°)
toSTV Central (Edinburgh) region - 8 masts.

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

	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2011	2011-13	3 Oct 2018
	AKT	AKT	AKT	AKT	AKT
C23	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	D3+4	D3+4
C26	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBCB	BBCB
C29	C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves	BBCA
C30					BBCA
C33	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves

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Table shows multiplexes namessee this article;
green background for transmission frequencies
Notes:+ and- denote 166kHz offset;aerial group are shown asABC/DEKWT
_waves denotes analogue; digital switchover was 1 Jun 11 and 15 Jun 11.

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

Analogue 1-4	25W
BBCA,D3+4,BBCB	(-7dB) 5W

Local transmitter maps

West Linton Freeview Craigkelly TV region BBC Scotland STV Central (Edinburgh micro region)

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

Aug 1957-Jun 1997	Scottish Television
Jun 1997-Dec 2014	STV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. West Linton 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?

Comments

Friday, 24 June 2011

Justin MacNeil
3:39 PM

After completion ofdigital switchover I again retuned my new Samsung UE46D7000, and lo and behold, no HD (BBCB) Mux.
I tried manually searching for it onC26 (as listed forWest Linton) last night, having tried auto-retunes a couple of times already, and there appears to beno signal at all on C26. So I'm seeing transmissions on just twochannels - 23 and 29 (Mux D3+4Mux, Mux BBCA)
What gives? Have they decided not to bother (re)transmitting the HD Mux from West Linton?

Another oddity - just for the record - according to all the information available they were supposed to switch off analogue BBC2 in the period betweenDSO initial move and DSO final move, but they actually killed C4 for 2 weeks!

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5:04 PM

Justin MacNeil: As far as we know, there are no faults on thetransmitter. Can you provide a full postcode so we can see where you are?

It's common for viewers to have too muchsignal afterswitchover. If you have abooster, remove it. If reducing signal levels doesn't help, check with your neighbours to see if they can get HD signals, and if they can't either, use the BBCreception page atBBC - Reception problems .

As far as the firstanalogue channel to go is concerned, at main stations, the transmitter that is switched off/switchedmode* is whichever the BBC Amultiplex replaces, which was indeed C4. However, in cases where this is notBBC Two, the channel whose transmitter was switched off is moved to the BBC Twofrequency for the two week changeover period.

That is, BBC Two closed down, C4 moved toC26, then BBC A started up onC29.

ForWest Linton it's likely that no change was actually required, because the same change (BBC A launching on C4's frequency, C4 moving to BBC Two's frequency) happened at the upstream transmitter,Penicuik. Faults at that transmitter, or the main transmitter,Craigkelly, would impact West Linton as well. Again, no problems have been reported.

* Largely the technical switch-over happened several months ago, and the old analogue transmitter or transposer was replaced by new dual-standard equipment, which is then switched over to digital operation on the actual switchover days.

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Wednesday, 29 June 2011

Justin MacNeil
11:03 AM

Feeling slightly foolish now...
I switched on my BluRay player on Sunday to demonstrate thepicture quality of the new TV and it wanted to retune. I let it do so, and it picked up the HD Mux (BBCB). So I rescanned the TV and it (just) succeeded in finding BBCB, but the picture was quite unstable (severely breaking up every few seconds) - so I removed the BluRay from theantenna feed and the signal seems a lot more stable now. Original arrangement was Antenna->PVR->BluRay->TV. Now Antenna->PVR->TV. So I guess there were just too many hops in the antenna feed - that and perhaps that the final antenna cable (Bluray->TV) was a fairly pathetic thin thing that I had lying around from an old VHS recorder. Thanks for the quick response. Much happier now :-).

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2:36 PM

Justin MacNeil: Each device usually adds a small amount of amplification to offset the insertion loss of the device itself, and sometimes a little more to offset the expected loss in thecable. That amplification adds additional noise, which can cause problems. Also, eachamplifier could be overloaded, introducing distortion, and cause intermodulation problems, or the level could be too high when it reaches the final device in the chain, again causing intermodulation.

If the device doesn't actually tune into thesignal from theaerial, and you're not using the RF modulation feature, it's better not to include it in the chain. I have to admit I've not heard of Blu-Ray players with an RF modulator before!

You also need to check that any devices with an RF modulator are set to use a free channel. You should avoid using any channel that is 1, 5 or 9channels above any transmissions that you want to receive. (N+5 and N+9 cause beating problems, while RF modulators commonly don't suppress the lower side-band as real TV transmitters do, which then ends up on top of the channel below.).

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Friday, 27 September 2013

alan graham
12:20 AM

Transmitter engineering:I live inWest Linton with an uninterrupted view of the transmitter across a field. Why is BBC radio 5 almost un-listenable in any room on any portable radio.? Up until about 6 months agoreception was first class.

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This transmitter has no current reported problems

Which Freeview channels does the West Linton transmitter broadcast?

Are you trying to watch these 43 Freeview channels?

Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the West Linton transmitter?

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

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

Local transmitter maps

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

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?