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Freeview Light on the Borve (Eilean Siar, Scotland) transmitter

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56.986,-7.521 or 56°59'10"N 7°31'15"W

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4G at 800MHz (at800) Freeview reception issues

When 800MHz 4G mobile broadband services start there will be 1 multiplex in the higher risk range (C21-23, C30, C59-60): C22: BBCB
See How do I know if the 4G broadband will overload my Freeview? and Full UK map of 4G issue areas for details.

This transmitter has no current reported problems

The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Borve (Eilean Siar, Scotland) transmitter. Click to recheck

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The symbol shows the location of the Borve (Eilean Siar, Scotland) transmitter which serves less than 500 homes.

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Skriaig region

BBC Scotland

STV North (Aberdeen micro region)

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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.

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Borve transmitter Freeview broadcasts

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.

Mux	Aerial position	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	vertical max	C28 (530.0MHz)	16m	64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	2W
	1 BBC One Scotland, 2 BBC Two Scotland, 7 BBC Three, 8 BBC Alba, 9 BBC Four, 70 CBBC Channel, 71 CBeebies, 80 BBC News, 81 BBC Parliament, 301 301, plus 14 others
PSB2 D3+4	vertical max	C25 (506.0MHz)	16m	64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	2W
	3 STV (STV North (Aberdeen micro region)), 4 Channel 4 Scotland ads, 5 Channel 5 Scotland ads, 6 ITV 2, 13 Channel 4+1 Scotland ads, 14 More 4, 28 E4, 33 STV+1 (STV Edinburgh),
PSB3 BBCB	vertical max	C22 (482.0MHz)	16m	256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4	2W
	101 BBC One HD Scotland, 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 STV HD (STV West), 104 Channel 4 HD Scotland ads, plus 1 others 232 The Space,

Looking for these 26 channels?

The Borve (Eilean Siar, Scotland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4Music, 4seven, 5*, 5USA, Al Jazeera English, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, Community Channel, Dave, Dave ja vu, E4+1, Film 4, Food Network, ITV 2 +1, ITV 3, ITV 4, Movie Mix, PICK TV, Quest, Really, RT English , Sky News, The Zone, VIVA, Yesterday.

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.

Regional news from the Borve transmitter

BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 236km southeast
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.

STV News 0.4m homes 1.5%
from Aberdeen AB12 3QH, 330km east
to STV North (Aberdeen) region - 76 masts.

How the transmission frequencies change over time

	years	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2010	2010-13	2013-18	2013-18
	aerial group	A K	A K	A K	A K	A K	A K
	C22	BBC1	BBC1	BBC1	BBCB	BBCB	BBCB
	C25	C4	C4	C4	D3+4	D3+4	D3+4
	C28	BBC2	BBC2	BBC2	BBCA	BBCA	BBCA
600	C32	ITV	ITV	ITV

orange background for multiplexes names more

green background for transmission frequencies

lilac background for power levels in watts

800MHz band: 4G mobile to start in 2013

700MHz band: possible 4G in 2019 more

600MHz band: new or moved digital TV services more

Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W
Italics for analogue, digital switchover was Wednesdays 14th July and 28th July 2010.

Comparison of old analogue and current digital signal levels

Analogue 1-4	8W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-6dB) 2W

History of Channel 3 in the Skriaig transmitter area

Sep 1961-Jun 1997	Grampian 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. Borve 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.

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Transmitter engineering
Monday 4 February 2013 4:32PM

BORVE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 03:45 on 31 Jan to 09:22 on 31 Jan, BBC Digital TV Wrong Region from 10:00 today to 12:05 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 03:45 on 31 Jan to 09:22 on 31 Jan, HD Digital TV Wrong Region from 10:00 today to 12:05 toda [BBC]

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