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Freeview Light on the Glengorm (Argyll and Bute, Scotland) transmitter

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56.632,-6.133 or 56°37'53"N 6°8'1"W

PA75 6QD

This transmitter has no current reported problems

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

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The symbol shows the location of the Glengorm (Argyll and Bute, Scotland) transmitter which serves 800 homes.

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Torosay region

BBC Scotland

STV Central (Glasgow 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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Glengorm 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	C44 (658.0MHz)	301m	64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	1,000W
	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	C41+ (634.2MHz)	301m	64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	1,000W
	3 STV (STV Central (Glasgow 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	C47 (682.0MHz)	301m	256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4	1,000W
	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 Glengorm (Argyll and Bute, 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 Glengorm transmitter

BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 143km southeast
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.

STV News 1.3m homes 4.8%
from Glasgow G51 1PQ, 143km southeast
to STV Central (Glasgow) region - 94 masts.

Self-help relays

Arisaig House	Active deflector	42 km W Fort William	13 homes
Dervaig	Active deflector	Isle of Mull	42 homes
Lochailort	Active deflector	35 km W Fort William	21 homes
Strathaird	Active deflector	Isle of Skye	15 homes
Torrin	Transposer	25 km SE Portree	19 homes

How the transmission frequencies change over time

	years	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2010	2010-13	2013-18	2013-18
	aerial group	C/D E	C/D E	C/D E	B E K	B E K	B E K
	C41				+D3+4	+D3+4	+D3+4
	C44				BBCA	BBCA	BBCA
	C47				BBCB	BBCB	BBCB
	C48	ITV	ITV	ITV
700	C52	BBC2	BBC2	BBC2
	C54	C4	C4	C4
	C56	BBC1	BBC1	BBC1

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 13th October and 27th October 2010.

Comparison of old analogue and current digital signal levels

Analogue 1-4	1.1kW
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-0.4dB) 1000W

History of Channel 3 in the Torosay transmitter area

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. Glengorm 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
Saturday 10 December 2011 4:31AM

GLENGORM transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 12:18 on 08 Dec to 16:08 on 08 Dec BBC Digital TV Off Air from 18:00 on 08 Dec to 19:31 yesterday HD Digital TV Off Air from 12:18 on 08 Dec to 16:08 on 08 Dec HD Digital TV Off Air from 18:00 on 08 Dec to 19:31 yesterday [BBC]

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