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Freeview Light on the Stow (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmitter

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55.691,-2.880 or 55°41'27"N 2°52'47"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): C23: D3+4
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 Stow (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmitter. Click to recheck

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The symbol shows the location of the Stow (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) transmitter which serves less than 500 homes.

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Selkirk region

BBC Scotland

Border

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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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Stow 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	C26 (514.0MHz)	301m	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	C23 (490.0MHz)	301m	64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	2W
	3 ITV (Border), 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 ITV+1 (Yorkshire Emley Moor),
PSB3 BBCB	vertical max	C29 (538.0MHz)	301m	256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4	2W
	101 BBC One HD Scotland, 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 ITV HD (ITV Granada), 104 Channel 4 HD Scotland ads, plus 1 others 232 The Space,

Looking for these 26 channels?

The Stow (The Scottish Borders, 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 Stow transmitter

BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 90km west-northwest
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.

ITV Lookaround 0.3m homes 1.1%
from Carlisle CA1 3NT, 90km south
to ITV Border region - 60 masts.

How the transmission frequencies change over time

	years	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2008	2008-13	2013-18	2013-18
	aerial group	A K	A K	A K	A K	A K	A K
	C23	ITV	ITV	ITV	D3+4	D3+4	D3+4
	C26	BBC2	BBC2	BBC2	BBCA	BBCA	BBCA
	C29	C4	C4	C4	BBCB	BBCB	BBCB
600	C33	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 Thursdays 6th November and 20th November 2008.

Comparison of old analogue and current digital signal levels

Analogue 1-4	5W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-4dB) 2W

History of Channel 3 in the Selkirk transmitter area

Sep 1961-Dec 2014

Border Television

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. Stow 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
Friday 31 December 2010 4:51PM

STOW transmitter - Freeview HD Digital TV Off Air from 08:06 yesterday to 08:16 yesterday [BBC]

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