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Freeview Light on the Strabane (Northern Ireland) transmitter

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The symbol shows the location of the Strabane (Northern Ireland) transmitter which serves 14,000 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 Strabane (Northern Ireland) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Strabane 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
C32 (562.0MHz)581mDTG-400W
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
C34 (578.0MHz)581mDTG-400W
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), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C35+ (586.2MHz)581mDTG-400W
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 -13dB
C40 (626.0MHz)581mDTG-20W
Channel icons
from 4th September 2019: 53 TG4, 54 RTÉ One, 55 RTÉ Two,

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

The Strabane (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 Strabane transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Newsline 0.6m homes 2.5%
from Belfast BT2 8HQ, 1,050km northeast (50°)
to BBC Northern Ireland region - 46 masts.
regional news image
UTV Live 0.6m homes 2.5%
from Belfast BT7 1EB, 1,050km northeast (50°)
to UTV region - 46 masts.

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

1963-80s1984-971997-981998-20122012-134 Sep 2019
VHFB E TB E TB E TB E K TK T
C8ITVwaves
C32BBCA
C34D3+4
C35BBCB
C39BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves+BBCB
C40NIMMNIMM
C42C4wavesC4wavesC4wavesD3+4
C45BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCA
C49tv_offITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves

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 2kW
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 400W
NIMM(-20dB) 20W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Limavady 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.

Comments
Sunday, 10 November 2013
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Fergal
11:38 AM

Although above it says there is no reported problem on the Strabane Mast, Since the Lightening on Thurs afternoon 7th Nov, myself and my neighbour are having viewing problems - loss of signal on all channels expect RTE which we receive from Raphoe. Has anyone else experienced this problem?

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Thursday, 18 January 2018
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David herron
9:44 PM

Hi when strabane have a complete review serice(not light)
A similar service to belfast

Regards

David

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StevensOnln1
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11:36 PM

David herron: Probably never. This question is asked about one transmitter or another almost every day and the answer is the same every time. The channels which you don't receive are operated by commercial broadcasters, with most being available from 80 transmitters which cover 90% of UK households. To reach 98.5% coverage (matching BBC, ITV, Channel 4 & Channel 5) requires over 1,000 additional transmitters which the commercial broadcasters are not interested in broadcasting from due to the costs involved. If you want more channels either provide a full postcode so that we can see whether you might be able to use another transmitter, or look at getting Freesat which will give you almost all of the channels available on Freeview (and many others too) for a one-off cost.

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Friday, 19 January 2018
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MikeB
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10:41 AM

StevensOnln1: This is a reply we really need on copy and paste! :-)

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Saturday, 13 July 2019
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Bart
11:59 AM

What will happen when saorview in donegal changes some transmitters to the exact a as me frequencies as the strabane frequencies in September 2019

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Sunday, 14 July 2019
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Chris.SE
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6:21 AM

Bart:

If you put your postcode into Digital UK - Coverage checker it will give you an idea about the predicted reception under the entries "Reception changes" if there is any effect.

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Monday, 15 July 2019
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StevensOnln1
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10:39 AM

Chris.SE: I don't think Digital UK provide information on Irish transmitters. Does anyone know of any equivalent website for Saorview in Ireland?

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Chris.SE
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7:54 PM

StevensOnln1:

Strabane is a Northern Ireland transmitter and will therefore be covered by Digitaluk. Any changes to other transmitters that might affect reception of Strabane will be reflected in the predicted reception should it have any impact. Bart seems to be concerned about the actual reception from Strabane and not directly concerned with receiving Donegal.

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StevensOnln1
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10:06 PM

Chris.SE: But Bart was asking about what will happen to Saorview in Donegal, which assuming they live there they won't have a postcode to enter into Digital UK, which wouldn't return any coverage or frequency data for a Saorview transmitter in the Republic of Ireland, nor will any data be available for coverage of a UK transmitter outside of the UK.

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Wednesday, 17 July 2019
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Chris.SE
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6:55 AM

StevensOnln1:

You have misread Bart's post -

Quote "What will happen when saorview in donegal changes some transmitters to the exact a as me frequencies as the strabane frequencies in September 2019"

The key words (with typo) being "to the exact a as me frequencies ...." which I take to mean "MY frequencies" and after all he has posted on the Strabane page asking what will happen. IF I am wrong then he'll have to look elsewhere, if I'm correct, the information I've provide will tell him.

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