menuMENU    UK Free TV logo Freeview

 

 

Click to see updates

Full Freeview on the Brougher Mountain (Northern Ireland) transmitter

first published this on - UK Free TV
sa_streetviewGoogle Streetviewsa_gmapsGoogle mapsa_bingBing mapsa_gearthGoogle Earthsa_gps54.422,-7.462 or 54°25'17"N 7°27'43"Wsa_postcodeBT78 3SG

 

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 25/03/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels Digital tick


Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name
_______

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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 H max
C29 (538.0MHz)365mDTG-20,000W
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
 H max
C31+ (554.2MHz)365mDTG-20,000W
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),

PSB3
BBCB
 H max
C37 (602.0MHz)365mDTG-20,000W
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

COM4
SDN
 H -10dB
C21+ (474.2MHz)365mDTG-82,000W
Channel icons
20 Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 Dave ja vu, 58 ITVBe +1, 59 ITV3 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 78 TCC, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 89 ITV4 +1, 91 WildEarth, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 267 Al Jazeera English, plus 30 others

COM5
ArqA
 H -10dB
C24 (498.0MHz)373mDTG-82,000W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 Yesterday +1, 75 That's 90s, 233 Sky News, plus 11 others

COM6
ArqB
 H -10dB
C27 (522.0MHz)373mDTG-82,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 W, 27 Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! romance, 56 That's TV (UK), 61 GREAT! movies extra, 63 GREAT! romance mix, 71 That’s 60s, 73 HobbyMaker, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

NIMM
 H -13dB
C30- (545.8MHz)365mDTG-111,000W
Channel icons
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?

regional news image
BBC Newsline 0.6m homes 2.5%
from Belfast BT2 8HQ, 1,048km northeast (50°)
to BBC Northern Ireland region - 46 masts.
regional news image
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-80s1984-971997-981998-20122012-134 Sep 2019
VHFA K TA K TA K TA K TA K T
C5BBCtvwaves
C21+SDNSDN
C22BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves+D3+4
C24ArqAArqA
C25ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesBBCB
C27ArqBArqB
C28BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCA
C29BBCA
C30-NIMMNIMM
C31D3+4
C32C4wavesC4wavesC4waves
C37BBCB

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

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Brougher Mountain 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. 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

Comments
Friday, 13 September 2019
MikeP
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

8:16 AM

nobody:

I stated that it was on Channel 37, so I am correct.



link to this comment
MikeP's 3,056 posts GB flag
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

2:08 PM

BROUGHER MOUNTAIN transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Weak Signal from 13:00 today to 13:08 today. [BBC]

link to this comment
Transmitter engineering's 149,799 posts xx flag
Saturday, 14 September 2019
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

5:08 AM

BROUGHER MOUNTAIN transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 13:00 yesterday to 13:08 yesterday. [BBC]

link to this comment
Transmitter engineering's 149,799 posts xx flag
Sunday, 15 September 2019
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

5:08 AM

BROUGHER MOUNTAIN transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 13:00 on 13 Sep to 13:08 on 13 Sep. [BBC]

link to this comment
Transmitter engineering's 149,799 posts xx flag
Saturday, 28 September 2019
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

11:08 AM

BROUGHER MOUNTAIN transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 09:25 today to 09:51 today. [BBC]

link to this comment
Transmitter engineering's 149,799 posts xx flag
Sunday, 29 September 2019
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

5:08 AM

BROUGHER MOUNTAIN transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 09:25 yesterday to 09:51 yesterday. [BBC]

link to this comment
Transmitter engineering's 149,799 posts xx flag
Monday, 30 September 2019
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

5:08 AM

BROUGHER MOUNTAIN transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 09:25 on 28 Sep to 09:51 on 28 Sep. [BBC]

link to this comment
Transmitter engineering's 149,799 posts xx flag
Thursday, 21 November 2019
G
Gregory Murphy
11:25 AM

Hi - I am an aerial installer and since the retune' on sept 4th a lot of my customers have lost channels. I noticed that some channels are being transmitted at -10db power - these are the channels that are missing. Is there any plan to transmit these on full power ?
If not, what will I tell my customers who before this , had all the channels...?
Thanks

link to this comment
Gregory Murphy's 3 posts GB flag
G
Gregory Murphy
11:28 AM

Sorry - I sent a comment a few minutes ago - I didn't include that the transmitter in question is the brougher mountain one

link to this comment
Gregory Murphy's 3 posts GB flag
C
Chris.SE
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

8:39 PM

Gregory Murphy:

Oh dear!
Whilst the information on some of these transmitter pages isn't always correct (there are 1100+ transmitters in the UK & the site owner has not been able to keep up for all the 700MHz clearance changes) on this occasion the information is correct. The -10dB for the COM muxes is in relation to the PSB muxes as you've no doubt deduced, and that has not changed with the retune event. They always have been 2kW cf. the PSBs 20kW.
Refer to the UTV pdf document which can be downloaded towards the bottom of Freeview | All your favourite TV shows, all in one place and all for free corporate/platform-management/700mhz-clearance/clearance-events-2020">Clearance events in 2020 | Freeview (it does include Q4 2019).

The major changes at the retune, was a shift of the PSB channels, of the COMs only SDN had a tweak from 21+ to 21. So there is no "obvious" reason why your customers should have lost any COM multiplexes. Having said that, other changes elsewhere may have resulted in increased interference for some multiplexes in some locations.

I suggest you make use of the Freeview Detailed Coverage Checker, go to Freeview | All your favourite TV shows, all in one place and all for free scroll down a bit to "Check Freeview at my home" and put each customer's postcode and house number in the boxes (in turn) then on the new page scroll down until you get to "Detailed view" & click the button.
You'll then see the predicted reception of the various multiplexes and from which transmitters. Hovering over the channel number will show the transmission mode and power. The predicted reception may change next year as other transmitters complete their retunes. You'll see that from any entries in the tables.

Should I state the obvious, with some of the adverse weather of late, maybe they should be checking that their aerials are intact and still pointing correctly and downleads have not been damaged.

link to this comment
Chris.SE's 4,102 posts GB flag
Select more comments

Your comment please
Please post a question, answer or commentIf you have Freeview reception problems before posting a question your must first do this Freeview reset procedure then see: Freeview reception has changed, Single frequency interference, and Freeview intermittent interference.

If you have no satellite signal, see Sky Digibox says 'No Signal' or 'Technical fault'

If you have other problems, please provide a full (not partial) postcode (or preferably enter it in box at the top right) and indicate where if aerial is on the roof, in the loft or elsewhere.

UK Free TV is here to help people. If you are rude or disrespectful all of your posts will be deleted and you will be banned.








Privacy policy: UK Free Privacy policy.