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.
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, 19 February 2014
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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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Thursday, 22 May 2014
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Joe Lee7:57 AM
Belfast
Is there not a legal requirement for Brougher Mountain to get COM7 at some point in the future?
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Joe's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Joe Lee: (Sorry for the rather straightforward answer) No.
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Friday, 5 December 2014
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Darren2:41 PM
Why are we having weak signal in lisnaskea today. There is no mention of works
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Friday, 6 February 2015
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Austin Grant8:22 PM
Dear sir madam'
I live in buncrana and I get all the stations on channel 22 but I can,t get the BBC stations on channel 28. I would be grateful if you could help me. I have a group A outside aerial. Thank you.
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Dave Lindsay
9:00 PM
9:00 PM
Austin Grant: If you are in Buncrana at the side of Lough Swilly, then I'm amazed you can receive anything from Brougher Mountain! Presumably you can't pick up from Limavady.
Other than the C28 signal from Brougher not reaching you, the reason might be because Malin transmitter also uses C28.
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jb389:23 PM
Austin Grant: Further to that said by Dave Lindsay, Buncranna is indicated as being covered by the Londonderry transmitter, the BBC being on C44 and ITV on C41, transmissions from Londonderry being vertically polarised, i.e the aerial elements facing up and down.
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Sunday, 22 March 2015
Hi there,Are you sure PSB3 on ch25 is at 20KW - I suspect it might be only on 2KW as I recieve the chan 22 and 28 very strong, but no 25? TV supports HD/MPEG4
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