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Freeview Light on the Thornhill (Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland) transmitter

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55.183,-3.800 or 55°10'58"N 3°47'59"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): C60: 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 Thornhill (Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland) transmitter. Click to recheck

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The symbol shows the location of the Thornhill (Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland) transmitter which serves 18,000 homes.

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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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Thornhill 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	C57 (762.0MHz)	374m	64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	100W
	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	C60- (785.8MHz)	374m	64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	100W
	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	C53 (730.0MHz)	374m	256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4	100W
	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 Thornhill (Dumfries and Galloway, 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 Thornhill transmitter

BBC Reporting Scotland 2.4m homes 9.2%
from Glasgow G51 1DA, 81km north-northwest
to BBC Scotland region - 230 masts.

ITV Lookaround 0.3m homes 1.1%
from Carlisle CA1 3NT, 66km east-southeast
to ITV Border region - 60 masts.

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How the transmission frequencies change over time

	years	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2009	2009-13	21/11/12-	2013-18
	aerial group	C/D E	C/D E	C/D E	C/D E	C/D E	C/D E
700	C53	C4	C4	C4	BBCB	BBCB	BBCB
	C57	BBC1	BBC1	BBC1	BBCA	BBCA	BBCA
	C60	ITV	ITV	ITV	-D3+4	-D3+4	-D3+4
800	C63	BBC2	BBC2	BBC2

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 24th June and 22nd July 2009.

Comparison of old analogue and current digital signal levels

Analogue 1-4	500W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-7dB) 100W

History of Channel 3 in the Caldbeck Scotland 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. Thornhill 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
Sunday 16 September 2012 7:55AM

THORNHILL transmitter - Freeview BBC Digital TV Off Air from 19:33 yesterday to 21:15 yesterday BBC Digital TV Off Air from 11:11 on 14 Sep to 12:50 on 14 Sep HD Digital TV Off Air from 19:33 yesterday to 21:15 yesterday HD Digital TV Off Air from 11:11 on 14 Sep to 12:50 on 14 Sep [BBC]

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