Full Freeview on the Brougher Mountain (Northern Ireland) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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The symbol shows the location of the Brougher Mountain (Northern Ireland) transmitter which serves 36,000 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.

Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Brougher Mountain (Northern Ireland) mast?

Brougher Mountain transmitter - Brougher Mountain transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 18/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels

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Which Freeview channels does the Brougher Mountain 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	H max	C29 (538.0MHz)	365m	DTG-	20,000W
	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	H max	C31+ (554.2MHz)	365m	DTG-	20,000W
	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	H max	C37 (602.0MHz)	365m	DTG-	20,000W
	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 66 TBN UK,
COM4 SDN	H -10dB	C21+ (474.2MHz)	365m	DTG-8	2,000W
	20 U&Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 U&Dave ja vu, 58 ITV3 +1, 59 ITV4 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 91 WildEarth, 93 ITVBe +1, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 251 Al Jazeera English, 255 FRANCE 24 (in English), 265 Rok Sky +1, plus 29 others
COM5 ArqA	H -10dB	C24 (498.0MHz)	373m	DTG-8	2,000W
	11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 U&Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 U&Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 &UYesterday +1, 76 That's TV 2 MCR, 233 Sky News, plus 13 others
COM6 ArqB	H -10dB	C27 (522.0MHz)	373m	DTG-8	2,000W
	12 Quest, 25 U&W, 27 U&Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 63 GREAT! romance mix, 73 HobbyMaker, 75 That's 90s, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others
NIMM	H -13dB	C30- (545.8MHz)	365m	DTG-11	1,000W
	53 TG4, 54 RTÉ One, 55 RTÉ Two,

DTG-8 64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-11 QPSK 32KN 2/3 10.0Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

The Brougher Mountain (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 Brougher Mountain transmitter?

BBC Newsline 0.6m homes 2.5%
from Belfast BT2 8HQ, 1,048km northeast (50°)
to BBC Northern Ireland region - 46 masts.

UTV Live 0.6m homes 2.5%
from Belfast BT7 1EB, 1,048km northeast (50°)
to UTV region - 46 masts.

How will the Brougher Mountain (Northern Ireland) transmission frequencies change over time?

	1950s-80s	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2012	2012-13	4 Sep 2019
	VHF	A K T	A K T	A K T	A K T	A K T
C5	BBCtv_waves
C21					+SDN	SDN
C22		BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	+D3+4
C24					ArqA	ArqA
C25		ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	BBCB
C27					ArqB	ArqB
C28		BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBCA
C29						BBCA
C30					-NIMM	NIMM
C31						D3+4
C32		C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves
C37						BBCB

_{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	(-17dB) 2kW
NIMM	(-20dB) 1000W
Mux 1, Mux 2, Mux A, Mux B, Mux C, Mux D	(-23dB) 500W

Local transmitter maps

Brougher Mountain Freeview Brougher Mountain TV region BBC Northern Ireland UTV

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Brougher Mountain transmitter area

Oct 1959-May 2006	Ulster Television
May 2006-Dec 2014	UTV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Brougher Mountain 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.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

Radiation patterns withheld

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Alec
8:29 PM

Would I be right in thinking, the BBC HD are not on Brougher i.e. BBC4 to vacillate RTE!
Or is there another reason?

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Dave Lindsay

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8:42 PM

Alec: The HD streams of BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three and CBBC are carried by all transmitters.

The new which carries BBC Four HD and BBC News HD, among others, is not available from and isn't likely to be so. The only transmitter in Northern Ireland to carry it is , and this is on lower than the other channels.

I cannot see that this has anything to do with RT as from Brougher it is on . At channels 31 to 35, and 37 were cleared and are now available to the operator of these new quasi-national networks.

Across the whole of the UK there are only 30 transmitters carrying these multiplexes and they are doing so on lower power than the main Freeview muxes. Prior to switchover there were 80 transmitters carrying low-power Freeview, so the coverage is less than pre-switchover digital.

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Joe Lee
7:57 AM
Belfast

Is there not a legal requirement for to get COM7 at some point in the future?

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Briantist

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8:20 AM

Joe : (Sorry for the rather straightforward answer) No.

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Darren
2:41 PM

Why are we having weak in lisnaskea today. There is no mention of works

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Austin Grant
8:22 PM

Dear sir madam'
I live in buncrana and I get all the stations on 22 but I can,t get the BBC stations on channel 28. I would be grateful if you could me. I have a group A outside . Thank you.

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Dave Lindsay

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9:00 PM

Austin Grant: If you are in Buncrana at the side of Lough Swilly, then I'm amazed you can receive anything from ! Presumably you can't pick up from .

Other than the from Brougher not reaching you, the reason might be because transmitter also uses C28.

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jb38

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9:23 PM

Austin Grant: Further to that said by Dave Lindsay, Buncranna is indicated as being covered by the , the BBC being on and ITV on , transmissions from Londonderry being vertically polarised, i.e the elements facing up and down.

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Austin
11:15 PM

Austin Grant:
Thanks lads for your information

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maloner
11:33 PM

Hi there,Are you sure PSB3 on ch25 is at 20KW - I suspect it might be only on 2KW as I recieve the chan 22 and 28 very strong, but no 25? TV supports HD/MPEG4

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