Edinburgh

DAB ensemble · block 12D · 8 transmitters

Ensemble identifier: C18A
Block: 12D
Frequency: 229.072 MHz
Licence: DL000010
Area: Edinburgh
Services: 14 radio

On the map

Where Edinburgh is radiated from — 8 transmitters [V], Ofcom's published positions. This says nothing about how far the signal reaches; it is not a coverage map.

What it carries

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Transmitters

8 transmitters, strongest first. TII is the transmitter identifier a receiver can report, which is how you tell which one you are actually hearing in a single-frequency network.
Transmitter	Nation	Block	Frequency	ERP	Height	Area	TII
Craigkelly	Scotland	12D	229.072 MHz	6.0 kW	78 m	Edinburgh	43/0C
Penicuik	Scotland	12D	229.072 MHz	2.5 kW	43 m	Penicuik	43/06
Black Hill	Scotland	12D	229.072 MHz	2.4 kW	155 m	West Lothian	43/08
Knock Hill	Scotland	12D	229.072 MHz	1.6 kW	32 m	Fife	43/07
Athelstaneford	Scotland	12D	229.072 MHz	1.0 kW	18 m	Athelstaneford	43/15
Braid Hills	Scotland	12D	229.072 MHz	977 W	43 m	Edinburgh South	43/12
Earls Hill - DAB	Scotland	12D	229.072 MHz	740 W	49 m	Stirling	43/0D
EDINBURGH CASTLE	Scotland	12D	229.072 MHz	27 W	18 m	Edinburgh	43/09

Radiation pattern

Its strongest transmitter with a published pattern, Craigkelly. Other transmitters of this ensemble may shape their signal differently.

Radiates most strongly toward the south (190°), as published by Ofcom.

More detail

Each ring is 10 dB of attenuation below the pattern's own peak; the outer rim is the peak itself and anything 30 dB down or deeper is drawn at the centre rather than off the edge of the chart, so a very deep null reads as “weak” and not as a hole in the picture. The shape says which direction radiates harder relative to the mast's own peak, not the absolute field strength there or how far it reaches — that is what the coverage map and the postcode lookup are for.