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.
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 18/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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 withheldThursday, 15 November 2012
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Cliff10:31 PM
Enniskillen
No signals c 28,22+,25,21+,27, 24 v'good but no SKY on 82 from 9pm.
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Cliff's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Cliff10:50 PM
Enniskillen
Oh!, fault on my recorder found to block all received signals. Had to do some disconnecting of leads to locate fault. Strong signal on 24 confused me, so please ignore report. Cliff.
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Cliff's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Thursday, 7 February 2013
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Wayne Cochran10:47 AM
Armagh
The difference in power between Brougher PSBs & COMs isn't anywhere near enough to cause problems with adjacent channel operation.
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Wayne's: mapW's Freeview map terrainW's terrain plot wavesW's frequency data W's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Sunday, 28 April 2013
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Ann Ferguson11:12 PM
Is Brougher Mountain transmitter still off air?
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Tuesday, 23 July 2013
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S Owens11:10 PM
I live in McCrea Park, Clogher. I can receive the main channels BBC, UTV but other channels can be very pixelated. Other houses have the same problem.
Is this a transmitter problem? Brougher Mountain?
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S Owens: No. It is intended unfortunately.
The Public Service (PSB) channels carry BBC, UTV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and a few others. Their objective, as the name implies, is to provide a public service and their coverage is as the former four-channel analogue.
The Commercial (COM) channels which carry ITV3, ITV4, Pick TV, Dave, Film4 and others fit in where they can and don't have as wide a reach as the PSBs.
In the case of Brougher Mountain its PSBs are radiated at a power of 20kW and the COMs are 2kW. The reason for the lower powered COMs is because they are co-channel (same frequencies) as Divis' PSBs. So if you and your neighbours aren't suffering because of the lower power, the interference from Divis might be the issue.
Unfortunately the only other transmitter you "might" (I emphasise "might") be in with a shot of receiving the COMs from is Divis. The issue is that you might find that its PSBs are variable or unavailable due to Brougher's co-channel (low power) COMs.
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S Owens: As a bodge it might be worth manually tuning to UHF channels 23, 26 and 29 which are the three COM channels of Divis, so as to see if they can be picked up off the back of your aerial. When you go to the manual tune screen, enter or select the channel numbers but don't press the button to scan straight away, instead wait and see if it gives any indication of strength and quality.
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Wednesday, 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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