UKTX

Glencoe

Scotland · FM

Position
56.623865, -4.836429
Grid reference
NN26085160
Nation
Scotland
Ground height
680 m
Antenna height
—

How far it reaches

Two different questions, and the map below can be switched between them. Reaches is everywhere this mast puts a usable signal; strongest is the much smaller slice where nothing else does it better.

BandReachesStrongest in
FM radio1 of 238,895 Output Areasunder 0.1% of UK Output Areasa relay, serving a local area
More detail

Most places can receive several transmitters — a median Output Area hears twelve — and only one of them can be the best, which is why the two columns are so far apart. Reach counts an area once the model clears the reception threshold there at all, and it inherits the sweep's screen: only the strongest twenty candidates per area are stored, so a mast lying twenty-first somewhere does not count as reaching it. Both are a share of areas, deliberately, and not a number of homes: checked against Ofcom's own coverage the model ranks transmitters correctly (Spearman 0.861) but over-states how far each one gets by a median factor of 2.5. A share is a ranking statement and survives that; a household count would not. How this is worked out.

On the map

Everywhere Glencoe is predicted to reach for FM radio, shaded by how much signal is left over. Other transmitters reach most of this ground too.

The model predicts too few served areas from this mast to trace a coverage edge, so no rings are drawn.

Open this transmitter on the full mapreach, the aerial direction, and everything else within range

FM radio

FM services. ERP is published separately per polarisation; a dash means nothing is radiated in that plane.
StationFrequencyERP (H)ERP (V)HeightRDS namePI codePattern
Nevis Radio97.0 MHz—200 W10 mNevis_FMCDB1—

Other transmitters nearby

Kinlochleven14.0 km NW · TV/FMBallachulish21.5 km WNW · TV/FMGlenachulish23.8 km WNW · FMCreag a' Chàil26.2 km NNW · FMOnich26.3 km WNW · TVCow Hill26.4 km NW · TV/DAB

Every structure Ofcom list within 40 km, nearest first. Close is not the same as an alternative: most of these are single-service relays, and one of them may radiate a thousandth of this mast's power in a direction that misses you.