Full Freeview on the Limavady (Northern Ireland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Limavady (Northern Ireland) transmitter which serves 45,000 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 Limavady (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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Limavady (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 Limavady 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Limavady (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 Limavady transmitter?
BBC Newsline 0.6m homes 2.5%
from Belfast BT2 8HQ, 1,051km northeast (51°)
to BBC Northern Ireland region - 46 masts.
Are there any self-help relays?
| Elliotts Hill | Transposer | 13 km SE Ballymena, Co. Antrim | 90 homes (according to B9 Energy) |
How will the Limavady (Northern Ireland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 4 Sep 2019 | |||||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | B E K T | |||||
| C40 | SDN | ||||||||
| C41 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C43 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C44 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C46 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C47 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C48 | _local | _local | |||||||
| C49tv_off | ArqB | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | BBCA | ||||||||
| C54tv_off | SDN | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | |||||
| C58tv_off | ArqA | ||||||||
| C59tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | |||||
| C62 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C65 | 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 | 100kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 10kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-21dB) 800W |
Local transmitter maps
Limavady Freeview Limavady DAB Limavady AM/FM Limavady TV region BBC Northern Ireland UTVWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Limavady transmitter area
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Wednesday, 24 October 2012
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Paul11:11 PM
Retuned my Freeview HD box today Receive BBC HD,BBC N.I HD,UTV HD,C4 HD,but not receiving any RTE Channels receiving signal from Limavady myself loft aerial.
Went to retune my friends Freeview HD set boxs tonight he lives in the other side of the town (Coleraine) and he received All HD Channels on most of his freeview HD boxs and all RTE Channels including RTE 2 HD ,9 RTE CHANNELS IN TOTAL.But some of his standard freeview boxs strugle to receive ITV SD.So I guess he must be reciving them from his RTE Aerial.So many tvs and I have not worked out how to improve ITV SD Channel without losing all RTE Channels.He has 2 Aerials on the roof,1 RTE and 1 Limavady...
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Thursday, 25 October 2012
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Tom12:40 AM
Londonderry
Not picking up any of the HD channels on 55 limavady transmitter or 47 Derry transmitter. All other channels are perfect and strong signal. Anyone no what's happening? I have the correct HD equipment.
By the way i receive RTE2 HD and all the other RTE channels from HOLYWELL HILL transmitter with no problems. Any information would be appreciated.
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pat1:56 AM
Londonderry
TOM.
I though i had the same problem, but i have two TVs one is the Sony bravia working perfect on HD, the other a Samsung seris 5, the Samsung has no DVB-T2 hence no HD.
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pat2:04 AM
Londonderry
No HD on British channels on my Samsung , but RTE HD is OK.
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pat1:22 PM
Londonderry
email from Samsung
I am sorry to hear about the problems you are experiencing with your TV and I understand this can be frustrating. Please be advised that unfortnuately your TV does not have the required built in tuner to pick up Freeview HD. Your TV has a DVB-T tuner which is a standard digital tuner, to recieve Freeview HD the TV would need a DVB-T2 tuner.
Although you need a DVB-T2 tuner to recieve Freeviw HD, you only require a DVB-T tuner to recieve Saorview HD due to the format it is broadcasted in, and this is why you are getting those. I am sorry for the inconvenience caused here.
Please see the tech specs of your TV below for further information:
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david parker5:54 PM
Coleraine
aerial new on roof can recieve all bbc itv hd channels but cant get rte at all
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david parker: Limavady does not broadcast RT because it is considered that there is sufficient overspill from the Republic.
At your location Limavady is on a bearing of 270 degrees. Moville is at 289 degrees.
You may, if you are lucky, be able to receive from both with a single aerial pointed somewhere between the two. Or, you may be able to do a manual tune with it as it is and receive from Moville.
Moville broadcasts on UHF channel 45. Go to the manual tune function and select C45. Before you press the button to scan/add channels, see if it gives any indication of strength/quality.
Failing that, other possibilities may include:
- Receive from Divis instead. The adjacent Black Mountain transmitter carries RT/TG4, although not as many as Moville which is a Saorview transmitter. These two transmitters are close enough that a single aerial will work.
- Receive Freeview from Divis and Saorview from Moville using two aerials combined into one feed.
If a single aerial pointing somewhere between Moville and Limavady doesn't work, then I don't think that you will be able to combine (diplex) two because of the UHF channels used by each transmitter.
If you are looking at receiving from Limavady and Moville with one aerial, then be aware that the higher the gain, the narrower the acceptance angle. So a high-gain aerial may not have a big enough angle of acceptance to receive from two transmitters that are 19 degrees apart.
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Mark10:12 PM
Londonderry
Receiving some uk digital channels from channel 30 in Cardonagh, Donegal.psb2 channels. Can anybody tell me what transmitter that is coming from. Wasnt expecting to get uk freeview.
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Mark10:44 PM
Londonderry
Receiving some uk digital channels from channel 30 (psb2)in Cardonagh, Donegal. Can anybody tell me what transmitter that is coming from. Wasnt expecting to get uk freeview.
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Friday, 26 October 2012
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seamus o'doherty6:47 PM
Strabane
According to the above map the Limavady transmitter can reach Scotland and Malin Head
in Donegal to deep into County Down but not Strabane which is only 30 miles away.
Can anyone explain this.
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