Full Freeview on the Brougher Mountain (Northern Ireland) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - 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.
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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 withheldSaturday, 27 August 2016
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Helen McCloskey9:19 PM
A few days ago people in Killyvilly stopped receiving their normal free view channels from their aerial. No one seems to know what the problem is or the solution. I expect they get their signal from Brougher Mountain. Please can you advise us. Thank you.
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Monday, 5 September 2016
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Richard Cooper10:46 AM
Helen McCloskey: Hi, Helen. There are no currently reported problems on the Brougher Mountain transmitter. Richard, Norwich.
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Wednesday, 2 November 2016
Transmitter engineering
4:31 PM
4:31 PM
BROUGHER MOUNTAIN transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 14:50 today to 14:59 today. FM: Radio 1 FM Off Air from 20:10 on 30 Oct to 20:28 on 30 Oct, Radio 1 FM Off Air from 22:53 on 30 Oct to 23:01 on 30 Oct, Radio 1 FM Off Air from 22:08 on 30 Oct to 22:11 on 30 Oct, Ra [BBC]
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Thursday, 3 November 2016
Transmitter engineering
4:32 AM
4:32 AM
BROUGHER MOUNTAIN transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 14:50 yesterday to 14:59 yesterday. FM: Radio 1 FM Off Air from 20:10 on 30 Oct to 20:28 on 30 Oct, Radio 1 FM Off Air from 22:53 on 30 Oct to 23:01 on 30 Oct, Radio 1 FM Off Air from 22:08 on 30 Oct to 22:11 on 30 [BBC]
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Friday, 4 November 2016
Transmitter engineering
4:31 AM
4:31 AM
BROUGHER MOUNTAIN transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 14:50 on 02 Nov to 14:59 on 02 Nov. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 11:12 on 02 Nov to 14:37 on 02 Nov, Radio 2 FM Weak Signal from 11:12 on 02 Nov to 14:37 on 02 Nov, Radio 3 FM Weak Signal from 11:12 on 02 Nov to [BBC]
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Tuesday, 21 March 2017
Transmitter engineering
11:33 PM
11:33 PM
BROUGHER MOUNTAIN transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 19:59 today to 20:03 today. [BBC]
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Wednesday, 22 March 2017
Transmitter engineering
4:33 AM
4:33 AM
BROUGHER MOUNTAIN transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 19:59 yesterday to 20:03 yesterday. [BBC]
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Thursday, 23 March 2017
Transmitter engineering
4:33 AM
4:33 AM
BROUGHER MOUNTAIN transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 19:59 on 21 Mar to 20:03 on 21 Mar. [BBC]
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Monday, 10 April 2017
Transmitter engineering
11:33 AM
11:33 AM
BROUGHER MOUNTAIN transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 10:05 today. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 10:03 today, Radio 2 FM Weak Signal from 10:03 today, Radio 3 FM Weak Signal from 10:03 today, Radio 4 FM Weak Signal from 10:03 today, Radio Ulster FM Weak Signal f [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
8:32 PM
8:32 PM
BROUGHER MOUNTAIN transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 10:05 today to 12:01 today. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 10:03 today to 12:01 today, Radio 2 FM Weak Signal from 10:03 today to 12:01 today, Radio 3 FM Weak Signal from 10:03 today to 12:01 today, Radio 4 FM [BBC]
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