UKTX

High Keil

Scotland · TV

Position
55.313020, -5.657608
Grid reference
NR68000820
Nation
Scotland
Ground height
55 m
Antenna height
13 m
Aerial group
Group B — C35–53, the middle
Polarisation
Vertical
BBC region
Scotland
ITV region
STV Central
ITV news region
STV Central West
Parent transmitter
Darvel
Ofcom site number
15237

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
Television2 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 High Keil is predicted to reach for television, 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

Television

Multiplexes transmitted from this site, as published by Ofcom.
MuxFreeview nameChannelFrequencyERPSystemOperator
PSB1BBC AC44658 MHz4 WDVB-TBBC
PSB2D3&4C47682 MHz4 WDVB-TDigital 3&4 (ITV/Channel 4)
PSB3BBC BC41634 MHz4 WDVB-T2BBC

Other transmitters nearby

Campbeltown11.4 km N · TV/FM/DABBallygroggan11.7 km NNW · FMCampbeltown - Baraskomill14.5 km NNE · FMCushendun30.2 km SW · TVBlackwaterfoot31.1 km NE · TVCarradale32.4 km NNE · TV

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.