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The symbol shows the location of the Carnmoney Hill (Northern Ireland) transmitter which serves 21,000 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 Carnmoney Hill (Northern Ireland) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Carnmoney Hill 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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
C46 (674.0MHz)254mDTG-16W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) Northern Ireland, 2 BBC Two Northern Ireland, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 14 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
C40 (626.0MHz)254mDTG-16W
Channel icons
3 UTV (SD) (UTV), 4 Channel 4 (SD) NI ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 NI ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 UTV +1 (UTV),

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C43 (650.0MHz)254mDTG-16W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Northern Ireland, 102 BBC Two HD Northern Ireland, 103 UTV HD (UTV), 104 Channel 4 HD NI ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

NIMM
 V max
C48 (690.0MHz)254mDTG-1116W
Channel icons
53 TG4, 54 RTÉ One, 55 RTÉ Two,

DTG-11 QPSK 32KN 2/3 10.0Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

The Carnmoney Hill (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 Carnmoney Hill transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Newsline 0.6m homes 2.5%
from Belfast BT2 8HQ, 1,044km northeast (51°)
to BBC Northern Ireland region - 46 masts.
regional news image
UTV Live 0.6m homes 2.5%
from Belfast BT7 1EB, 1,044km northeast (51°)
to UTV region - 46 masts.

How will the Carnmoney Hill (Northern Ireland) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20122012-1330 Sep 2019-
B E TB E TB E TB E K TB E K T
C40BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesD3+4D3+4
C43ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesBBCBBBCB
C46BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCA
C48NIMMNIMM
C50tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4waves

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 20W
NIMM, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-1dB) 16W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Divis transmitter area

Oct 1959-May 2006Ulster Television
May 2006-Dec 2014UTV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Carnmoney Hill was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

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Saturday, 13 March 2021
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Timothy Davis
11:46 AM

The issue has resolved now after several days. It was not working this morning and now later in the morning, all the channels on that mux are back (after communicating with various people last night and early this morning). You say that problematic connections, water ingress, etc., can seem to affect reception of just an individual mux. This is interesting and I will check for these things.

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Chris.SE
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2:51 PM

Timothy Davis:

To get more technical, problematic connections etc. can result in what's called standing waves in the cable which are often frequency specific and so affecting one particular frequency more than others.
Major cable breaks will of course have an effect on all signals.
This is why it's a good idea to make a note of the signal strengths and quality of signals for all the multiplexes when your system has no faults, then when there's a problem it can help to identify to possible causes.

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Wednesday, 13 October 2021
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11:43 AM

CARNMONEY HILL transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to essential engineering from 13 Oct 11:45. . [BBC]

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CARNMONEY HILL transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to essential engineering from 13 Oct 11:45 until 13 Oct 12:45. . [BBC]

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Thursday, 14 October 2021
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2:29 PM

CARNMONEY HILL transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to essential engineering from 13 Oct 11:45 until 13 Oct 12:45. . FM: Off the air due to a fault from 14 Oct 12:20 until 14 Oct 12:23. . [BBC]

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Friday, 25 August 2023
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1:48 PM

Carnmoney Hill transmitter - Carnmoney Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 21/08/2023 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]

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Monday, 28 August 2023
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Carnmoney Hill transmitter - Carnmoney Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 28/08/2023 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]

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Monday, 4 September 2023
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5:09 AM

Carnmoney Hill transmitter - Carnmoney Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 04/09/2023 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]

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Wednesday, 1 November 2023
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CARNMONEY HILL transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 1 Nov 11:35 until 1 Nov 11:53. . FM: Off the air due to a fault from 1 Nov 11:33 until 1 Nov 11:52. . [BBC]

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