Full Freeview on the Brougher Mountain (Northern Ireland) transmitter
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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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Brougher Mountain (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
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 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.
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.
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 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C21 | +SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C22 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | +D3+4 | |||||
| C24 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C25 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCB | |||||
| C27 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C28 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | |||||
| C29 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C30 | -NIMM | NIMM | |||||||
| C31 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C32 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | ||||||
| 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 UTVWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Brougher Mountain transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldWednesday, 31 July 2013
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S Owens6:59 PM
Dave, Thanks.
C23 reasonable but C26 & 29 no reception. Obviously can only pick up from Brougher. Reception also varies according to weather. When is a better service likely to be available?
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S Owens: Unfortunately it won't. The PSBs are available to all where the former four-analogue channels were. The COM channels fit in where possible.
Unfortunately some can't get the COMs and others, such as you find that they aren't reliably available because they are interfered with. In some cases it is possible to use a different transmitter, but at your location there is only Brougher and "perhaps" Divis.
See here for more of an explanation:
Londonderry (Northern Ireland) Freeview Light transmitter | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice
The only suggestion I can make, and this isn't forced to work and is certainly a bodge, is to turn the aerial to face Divis. Then tune in Divis' COM channels and Brougher's PSBs, the latter being picked up of the back of the aerial which could potentially cause unreliable reception.
Or, having done this you may be able to pick up all of Divis' channels, or you might find that its PSBs are interfered with at some times by Brougher's COMs.
As I say, it's not ideal but then you don't have a lot of choice.
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Thursday, 2 January 2014
BROUGHER MOUNTAIN transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Wrong Region from 10:35 on 06 Aug to 10:37 on 06 Aug, HD Digital TV Wrong Region from 10:35 on 06 Aug to 10:37 on 06 Aug. [BBC]
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Friday, 10 January 2014
BROUGHER MOUNTAIN transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Wrong Region from 10:35 on 06 Aug to 10:37 on 06 Aug, HD Digital TV Wrong Region from 10:35 on 06 Aug to 10:37 on 06 Aug. [BBC]
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Saturday, 18 January 2014
BROUGHER MOUNTAIN transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Wrong Region from 10:35 on 06 Aug to 10:37 on 06 Aug, HD Digital TV Wrong Region from 10:35 on 06 Aug to 10:37 on 06 Aug. [BBC]
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Monday, 27 January 2014
BROUGHER MOUNTAIN transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Wrong Region from 10:35 on 06 Aug to 10:37 on 06 Aug, HD Digital TV Wrong Region from 10:35 on 06 Aug to 10:37 on 06 Aug. [BBC]
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Tuesday, 11 February 2014
Transmitter engineering
4:24 AM
4:24 AM
BROUGHER MOUNTAIN transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Wrong Region from 10:35 on 06 Aug to 10:37 on 06 Aug, HD Digital TV Wrong Region from 10:35 on 06 Aug to 10:37 on 06 Aug. [BBC]
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Wednesday, 19 February 2014
Transmitter engineering
4:24 AM
4:24 AM
BROUGHER MOUNTAIN transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Wrong Region from 10:35 on 06 Aug to 10:37 on 06 Aug, HD Digital TV Wrong Region from 10:35 on 06 Aug to 10:37 on 06 Aug. [BBC]
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Alec8:29 PM
Would I be right in thinking, the BBC HD channels are not on Brougher i.e. BBC4 to vacillate RTE!
Or is there another reason?
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Alec: The HD streams of BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three and CBBC are carried by all transmitters.
The new multiplex which carries BBC Four HD and BBC News HD, among others, is not available from Brougher Mountain and isn't likely to be so. The only transmitter in Northern Ireland to carry it is Divis, and this is on lower power than the other channels.
I cannot see that this has anything to do with RT as from Brougher it is on C30. At switchover 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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