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
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Wednesday, 3 April 2019
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Peter H12:03 AM
James:
Carnmoney Hill is what's known as a Freeview Light transmitters I.e. it only has the basic PSB multiplexes.
To get the channels outside the coverage areas of the main Freeview transmitters you'll need to invest in Freesat.
This is a free to air satellite system that requires a dish.
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Friday, 12 March 2021
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Timothy Davis7:29 PM
Carnmoney Transmitter: I have a TV tuner and a recorder tuner, and both cannot view ITV and CH4 Standard Definition channels on the PSB2/D3+4 mux (C40). All BBC is fine and all High Definition is fine. It has been this way for several days. A re-tune has not solved the problem, but only completely lost the affected channels from my TV. We do not get all channels on HD, e.g. ITV4, Film4, etc.
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Saturday, 13 March 2021
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Chris.SE12:33 AM
Timothy Davis:
The transmitter hasn't been currently or recently listed for Planned Engineering and I can't find any reports of outages. Have you tried a manual retune on C40?
If you've tried that with no success, what signal strength and quality figures are you getting for the other muxes?
Check all your connections and coax plugs for corrosion etc. Make sure your aerial looks intact and still pointing in the correct direction. Check your downlead is secure and appears undamaged.
Problematic connections, water ingress etc. can seem to affect reception of just an individual or several multiplexes.
Have you changed anything in your set up prior to this problem arising?
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Timothy Davis11:46 AM
The issue has resolved now after several days. It was not working this morning and now later in the morning, all the channels on that mux are back (after communicating with various people last night and early this morning). You say that problematic connections, water ingress, etc., can seem to affect reception of just an individual mux. This is interesting and I will check for these things.
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Chris.SE2:51 PM
Timothy Davis:
To get more technical, problematic connections etc. can result in what's called standing waves in the cable which are often frequency specific and so affecting one particular frequency more than others.
Major cable breaks will of course have an effect on all signals.
This is why it's a good idea to make a note of the signal strengths and quality of signals for all the multiplexes when your system has no faults, then when there's a problem it can help to identify to possible causes.
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Saturday, 5 October 2024
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Rob3:53 PM
What kind of TV aerial in best to recieve from Carnmoney transmitter
Thanks
Rob
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Sunday, 6 October 2024
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Chris.SE12:44 AM
Rob:
The Carnmoney Hill relay transmitter is very low power (16W). You need a Group K aerial (as for most transmitters now) with it's rods vertical.
How many rods (or squashed Xs)/elements we can't advise as you haven't given a full postcode, assuming you are even in its coverage area.
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