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, 12 December 2019
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Gregory Murphy3:02 AM
Thanks for ur reply. It's seems to be a new problem in a lot of areas as even my aerial supplier from Cavan has lost channels. Most of my clients receive their signal from Black mountain and I've had no problems with it - just the Brougher mountain clients.
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Chris.SE12:04 PM
Gregory Murphy:
Maybe it would be best to contact Freeview Advice. if this is an issue affecting several people, there could be an issue at the transmitter that they aren't aware of - eg. signal not radiating correctly in one direction.
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Thursday, 6 August 2020
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Barry Broderick8:33 PM
My mother has a Amiko receiver and has stopped receiving signals please could you advise me. Looking forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards,
Barry Broderick
07966 308 703
fourcandles68@gmail.com
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Friday, 7 August 2020
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Chris.SE1:55 AM
Barry Broderick:
It's never a good idea to post your phone number or email address on a public forum, it's likely to attract spammers, con artists, identity thieves and the like.
On the assumption that you mother is receiving from the Brougher Mountain transmitter (a full postcode would be needed to check), neither Freeview nor the BBC are currently reporting any faults.
I would check that her aerial seems intact and pointing in the correct direction and that the downlead looks undamaged (especially if it is old). Also check all the coax plugs, connections, flyleads etc, unplug connectors check for corrosion or other problems and reconnect them. Flyleads are a common problem, try swapping/changing them. See what signal strengths and quality if any, there is for any of the multiplexes (groups of channels) shown in the TV's tuning section.
Problematic connections, water ingress etc. can seem to affect reception of just an individual or several multiplexes.
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Thursday, 18 May 2023
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Henry 11:29 AM
Is the power for the DAB radio tx turned down, I'm getting a lot more dropouts on the Enniskillen side of the transmitter !
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Chris.SE11:11 PM
Henry :
I can't find any listings of either planned engineering or faults, so I would assume that this is more than likely to be due to current weather conditions causing interference to signals.
There is currently quite variable Tropospheric Propagation with the high pressure weather system and current predictions show that Northern Ireland can be affected at the moment and again possibly next mid-week. You won't necessarily be affected all the time or necessarily find all multiplexes affected at any given time.
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Saturday, 4 May 2024
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R F Toner4:39 PM
RTE channels lost in Enniskillen for the last 2 weeks. My Panasonic TV only received channel 31 & sometimes 37 since then. When will full service from Brougher Mountain be restored - including RTE channels?
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StevensOnln111:29 PM
R F Toner: The posts above yours warn of engineering work affecting the Brougher Mountain transmitter over recent weeks. Unfortunately no details of the work are provided, nor is there a completion date given.
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Sunday, 5 May 2024
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Chris.SE12:47 AM
R F Toner:
If you provide a full postcode we can check your predicted reception and see if we can advise anything that'll make you less vulnerable to issues when engineering work is taking place.
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Monday, 21 October 2024
Transmitter engineering
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Brougher Mountain transmitter - Brougher Mountain transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 21/10/2024 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]
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