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The symbol shows the location of the Carnmoney Hill (Northern Ireland) transmitter which serves 21,000 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 Carnmoney Hill (Northern Ireland) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Carnmoney Hill 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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
C46 (674.0MHz)254mDTG-16W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) Northern Ireland, 2 BBC Two Northern Ireland, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 14 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
C40 (626.0MHz)254mDTG-16W
Channel icons
3 UTV (SD) (UTV), 4 Channel 4 (SD) NI ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 NI ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 UTV +1 (UTV),

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C43 (650.0MHz)254mDTG-16W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Northern Ireland, 102 BBC Two HD Northern Ireland, 103 UTV HD (UTV), 104 Channel 4 HD NI ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

NIMM
 V max
C48 (690.0MHz)254mDTG-1116W
Channel icons
53 TG4, 54 RTÉ One, 55 RTÉ Two,

DTG-11 QPSK 32KN 2/3 10.0Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

The Carnmoney Hill (Northern Ireland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: .

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.

Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Carnmoney Hill transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Newsline 0.6m homes 2.5%
from Belfast BT2 8HQ, 1,044km northeast (51°)
to BBC Northern Ireland region - 46 masts.
regional news image
UTV Live 0.6m homes 2.5%
from Belfast BT7 1EB, 1,044km northeast (51°)
to UTV region - 46 masts.

How will the Carnmoney Hill (Northern Ireland) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20122012-1330 Sep 2019-
B E TB E TB E TB E K TB E K T
C40BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesD3+4D3+4
C43ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesBBCBBBCB
C46BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCA
C48NIMMNIMM
C50tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4waves

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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 20W
NIMM, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-1dB) 16W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Divis transmitter area

Oct 1959-May 2006Ulster Television
May 2006-Dec 2014UTV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Carnmoney Hill 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.

Comments
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
Wednesday, 3 October 2012
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Tim
12:32 PM

Why is Carnmoney not getting the same number of DTV channels as Divis? Are there future plans beyond 24th October 2012?

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Dave Lindsay
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12:41 PM

Tim: No, Carnmoney will remain "Freeview Lite". This is because the Commercial broadcasters (those that won't be transmitting from Carnmoney Hill) don't consider the expense worthy of the return.

The achieve 90% coverage of the population from 81 of the largest transmitters (largest by viewer population). There are over 1,000 small relays like Carnmoney and these serve about 8.5% of the population. The cost to the Commercial broadcasters to transmit from these relays would roughly double their cost of transmission and this, they decided, isn't worth it.

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Dave Lindsay
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12:43 PM

Tim: Carnmoney Hill will broadcast RT and TG4 for which you will need a Freeview HD receiver.

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Peter Henderson
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9:10 PM

Tim: Freesat is also an alternitive if you want more channels and can't receive Divis.

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Wednesday, 10 October 2012
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Tim
12:53 PM

Thanks, Dave and Peter. I chatted to Digital UK and they say that things might change for my location during switch-over as Divis' transmission power is to be boosted by 10 times. This morning, I was certainly picking-up the same BBC DTV channels from two different muxes. Here's hoping!

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mrdtv
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1:02 PM

Tim: Transmission power from Divis went up from 2.3kW to 100kW on the BBC SD channels this morning, which is 43 times yesterday. If you are getting two BBC muxes check their frequencies, Divis BBCA is E27. Carnmoney is E46. If Divis is good get a new aerial.

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Friday, 12 October 2012
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Peter Henderson
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12:44 AM

Tim: It also depends on your location.

In and around Kings Park Divis reception appears to be fine, post DSO, along with the NI mux from Black Mountain, according to Digital UK's postcode checker. Along the Dough Road it would appear to be very poor, and doesn't improve until you get up as far as the Manse Road, so you never know until you try.

I'm in Jordanstown and the BBC A multiplex is excellent after the power increase yesterday. I'm also receiving Carnmoney Hill off an RTE aerial (Clermont Cairn) at reasonably good strength, despite analogue reception being poor.

Then again, I can see the Carnmoney Hill transmitter from my bedroom window !

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Peter Henderson
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12:47 AM

P.S. Divis would also appear to be O.K. down around the Abbot's Cross area and Rathcool, post D.S.O.

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Gail
1:08 PM

I am in Kings Road, newtownabbey. I retuned my digital TV on the 10th and all was fine, am getting good picture on BBC channels. Last night 11th Oct a few time when I switched the TV from Analogue (was watching ITV) back to digital I got no signal message and had to re tune every time to get the channels back. Is this normal.

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