Freeview Light on the Carnmoney Hill (Northern Ireland) transmitter
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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._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
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 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.
| Mux | H/V | Frequency | Height | Mode | Watts |
| PSB1 BBCA | V max | C46 (674.0MHz) | 254m | DTG- | 16W |
 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) | 254m | DTG- | 16W |
 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), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C43 (650.0MHz) | 254m | DTG- | 16W |
 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) | 254m | DTG-11 | 16W |
 53 TG4, 54 RTÉ One, 55 RTÉ Two, | |||||
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?
BBC Newsline 0.6m homes 2.5%
from Belfast BT2 8HQ, 1,044km northeast (51°)
to BBC Northern Ireland region - 46 masts.
How will the Carnmoney Hill (Northern Ireland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 30 Sep 2019- | |||||
| B E T | B E T | B E T | B E K T | B E K T | |||||
| C40 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C43 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C46 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C48 | NIMM | NIMM | |||||||
| C50tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 | 20W | |
| NIMM, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-1dB) 16W |
Local transmitter maps
Carnmoney Hill Freeview Carnmoney Hill DAB Divis TV region BBC Northern Ireland UTVWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Divis transmitter area
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Wednesday, 3 October 2012
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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Tim: Carnmoney Hill will broadcast RT and TG4 for which you will need a Freeview HD receiver.
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Peter Henderson9:10 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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Tim12:53 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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mrdtv1:02 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 Henderson12:44 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 Henderson12:47 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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Gail1:08 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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Saturday, 13 October 2012
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Brendan 11:37 AM
I'm living in Lylehill Road East (BT39 0HQ) about 300m from where the Roughfort Pub used to be. After the DSO & re-tuning several times I've lost BBC1, BBC2, Film4. My aerial is positioned in the loft. Can you explain this ?
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Brendan : Some older receivers won't work with the post-switchover signals which could explain why BBC One and BBC Two aren't being received. Knowledge of the make and model number will allow advice to be provided as to whether this is the case or not.
You have posted on the page for the Carnmoney Hill transmitter which does not broadcast Freeview before switchover. At present it only broadcasts BBC standard definition services and after 24th October will carry Public Service channels only (so no Film4, Dave etc).
Does your aerial point to Divis which is at 168 degrees? (Aerial will be horizontal)
Carnmoney Hill is at 100 degrees with the aerial vertical.
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