Full Freeview on the Limavady (Northern Ireland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Limavady (Northern Ireland) transmitter which serves 45,000 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 Limavady (Northern Ireland) mast?
Limavady transmitter - Limavady 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Limavady (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 Limavady 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Limavady (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 Limavady transmitter?
BBC Newsline 0.6m homes 2.5%
from Belfast BT2 8HQ, 1,051km northeast (51°)
to BBC Northern Ireland region - 46 masts.
Are there any self-help relays?
| Elliotts Hill | Transposer | 13 km SE Ballymena, Co. Antrim | 90 homes (according to B9 Energy) |
How will the Limavady (Northern Ireland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 4 Sep 2019 | |||||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | B E K T | |||||
| C40 | SDN | ||||||||
| C41 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C43 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C44 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C46 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C47 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C48 | _local | _local | |||||||
| C49tv_off | ArqB | ||||||||
| C50tv_off | BBCA | ||||||||
| C54tv_off | SDN | ||||||||
| C55tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | |||||
| C58tv_off | ArqA | ||||||||
| C59tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | |||||
| C62 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C65 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 | (-10dB) 10kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-21dB) 800W |
Local transmitter maps
Limavady Freeview Limavady DAB Limavady AM/FM Limavady TV region BBC Northern Ireland UTVWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Limavady transmitter area
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Saturday, 1 January 2011
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Willie Donaghy12:16 AM
Londonderry
No posts showing on my list since 26 December and only one since 19 November. I thought there were some since that?
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Willie's: mapW's Freeview map terrainW's terrain plot wavesW's frequency data W's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
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Dermo12:32 AM
I live outside Kilrea and when I moved into my house 15 years ago my aerial was set for the Limavady transmitter. However I couln't pick up Ch 5 when it was introduced, so got an engineer to switch my aerail to Belfast. This has worked fine until recently, even when I got a Freeview tuner and I could pick up RTE through it also - albeit an annolouge signal.
Over the past couple of yesrs picture quality has decreased and I have been told this is probably due to a neighbour's trees.
I was wondering therefore if I switched back to the Limavady transmitter, can I still use my Freeview tuner and pick up Ch 5 and RTE channels.
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Thursday, 6 January 2011
Dermo: You won't be able to pick up the RTE channels, as they are not broadcast from UK transmitters, but you will get Channel 5 as this is now on multiplex 2.
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Willie Donaghy: Did you mean the Limavady digital switchover date | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice page?
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Friday, 7 January 2011
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Keira9:48 PM
Londonderry
My postcode is BT48 0LQ and I have BT vision and a built in digital tv I was recieving all channels up until october and since then I have had none. I was advised to try retuning which I did. I get the same every time it locates all the channels I had but no services found and asks me to check the ariel connection.
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Keira's: mapK's Freeview map terrainK's terrain plot wavesK's frequency data K's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Saturday, 8 January 2011
Keira: Please see the Freeview reception has changed? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice page for help.
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Monday, 6 June 2011
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Ciara3:15 PM
Hi, we live in letterkenny and used to get the channels on mux-A i.e five usa and fiver. they have dissapeared in the past few months. we still get all other channels fine. but none from mux-a. im wondering what could cause this, or have the channels been removed from the limavadey transmitter?
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Tuesday, 7 June 2011
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Jim Wilson11:50 PM
Ciara the reason why you've lost Limavady Mux-A is because the Letterkenny Saorview DTT relay is transmitting on 53 V. You'll get the Irish DTT channels but no Limavady Mux-A.
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Saturday, 8 October 2011
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willie Donaghy11:16 PM
I came back to this web page due to the absolutely crap reception experienced recently. I feel sopmewhat vindicated re my earlier rant in the spring about the deterioration in reception then which has worsened since. My comments then attracted some derisory comment from the experts and advice to me and all the other complainants to get our previously ok installations checked by more experts.
I note the statement -
Some channels on the Limavady transmitter have lower transmission power so you may receive only some of them.
I think that was what we were all saying back then - duh!
And the second part of the statement is a real ass-coverer -
Your cables, connectors and aerial may need upgrading to get all the Freeview channels.
Yeah, right! I would like somebody to reconcile thos two sentences for me.
Seems that we have a typical scenario whereby the central authority and the related interests prioritise and the regionals come last. If local society wants a different sequence then you have to make representations. Note Ofgem quote -
"In Northern Ireland, only three transmitters - Divis, Limavady and Brougher Mountains - broadcast the DTT signal, limiting its coverage and DTT take-up significantly."
Seeriginal document at
Ofcom | Section 4
For local interest see also Arqiva report -
http://stakeholders.ofcom….pdf
Willie Donaghy
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