Full Freeview on the Divis (Northern Ireland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Divis (Northern Ireland) transmitter which serves 440,000 homes. 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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Divis (Northern Ireland) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Divis transmitter broadcast?
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.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Divis transmitter?
BBC Newsline 0.6m homes 2.5%
from Belfast BT2 8HQ, 1,044km northeast (51°)
to BBC Northern Ireland region - 46 masts.
Are there any self-help relays?
| Chapel Fields | Transposer | Central Belfast | 61 homes |
How will the Divis (Northern Ireland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 4 Mar 2020 | ||||
| VHF | A K T | A K T | A K T | K T | W T | ||||
| C1 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C21 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | +D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C23 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C24 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C26 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C27 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C29 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C30 | LBT | ||||||||
| C31 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C33 | com7 | ||||||||
| C34 | com8 | ||||||||
| C36 | _local | ||||||||
| C48 | NIMM | NIMM | |||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off |
tv_off Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) after November 2020 / June 2022 - more
Table shows multiplexes names see this article;
green background for transmission frequencies
Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W T
waves denotes analogue; digital switchover was 10 Oct 12 and 24 Oct 12.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 500kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 100kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 50kW | |
| com8 | (-16dB) 12.7kW | |
| com7 | (-16.1dB) 12.4kW | |
| LBT | (-20dB) 5kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-23.4dB) 2.3kW | |
| Mux C* | (-24dB) 2kW | |
| Mux D* | (-24.9dB) 1.6kW | |
| NIMM | (-47dB) 10W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Divis transmitter area
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Monday, 27 February 2012
Peter Henderson: If UTV were definitely not going to provide a Freeview HD service, I would have thought that Ofcom would have made the slot available for the other PSBs to bid for.
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Peter Henderson6:38 PM
Good point Brian.
Hopefully, the situation wll be resolved by October 24th.
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Conor7:30 PM
I think UTV should lose there channel 3 licence and handed to ITV and go on to another channel number they are a law on to them Selfs they should of Launched there HD channel on sky freesat and virgin at the same time and when dso happens here one or two days later I think UTV have damaged norther ireland ecconomy eg in hd tv sales and hd installs because they where to slow on hd technology and how fast it was taken of here they are bunch of trogs and need to come into 21st century before UTV dies and goes the way of the dodos
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Conor: If Ofcom could take the licence away from UTV, it would have to re-advertise it to all-comers and not just "hand it over" to another.
Quite what the madness of making UTV exclusive to Virgin Media customers is about is anyone's guess.
Given the lack of Freeview HD services in the province until late this year, there's not much damage to HDTV sales as such, but it makes no sense at all for UTV HD not to be on Freesat (and Sky of course).
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Peter Henderson: I can't see UTV not dealing with the issue by 24th October 2012, really.
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Wednesday, 29 February 2012
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Micheal12:56 AM
Conor I couldn't agree more with you, it's disgraceful we have to wait until October before DSO especially if you consider we're expected to pay a TV licence fee but we're not receiving the same services as other licence payers who've already switched to digital. I think a rebate is in order!
As for UTV they are a joke and I suspect they will eventually fold considering the ultra cheap local programming they're broadcasting these days.
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John8:13 PM
Perth
Any word of Perth relay transmitter getting more freeview channels soon?
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John's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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jb389:33 PM
John: No! as explained in this excerpt from a fuller and somewhat lengthier explanation, >> commercial operators decided that the cost of providing the equipment, installation and ongoing operation of services from the 1,000 smaller transmitters would cost more than any additional revenue they could get from the TV channels that rent their broadcast capacity, as the work would only expand the actual number of homes broadcast to by 9% <<
There are numerous PSB only relays similar to Perth dotted all over the UK, and with the aforementioned applying to them all.
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John: For a fuller explanation, see here:
Will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
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Saturday, 24 March 2012
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Peter Henderson1:48 PM
Newtownabbey
Well, I've lost both BBC multipexes along with everything on channel 23 this afternoon.
Obviously due to conditions since there's a bit of a lift on at the moment.
Roll on 24th October when this kind of thing will be a thing of the past. Can't come soon enough.
Pity they couldn't up the power a bit (10 kw would be nice) and add the HD channels between now and then. Still, I suuppose there are all sorts of technical parameters to adhere to.
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Peter's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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