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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?

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Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name
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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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 H max
C41 (634.0MHz)382mDTG-20,000W
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
 H max
C44 (658.0MHz)382mDTG-20,000W
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), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 H max
C47 (682.0MHz)382mDTG-20,000W
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

COM4
SDN
 H -3dB
C40 (626.0MHz)379mDTG-810,000W
Channel icons
20 U&Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 U&Dave ja vu, 58 ITV3 +1, 59 ITV4 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 91 WildEarth, 93 ITVBe +1, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 251 Al Jazeera English, 255 FRANCE 24 (in English), 265 Rok Sky +1, plus 29 others

COM5
ArqA
 H -3dB
C43 (650.0MHz)379mDTG-810,000W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 U&Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 U&Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 &UYesterday +1, 76 That's TV 2 MCR, 233 Sky News, plus 13 others

COM6
ArqB
 H -3dB
C46 (674.0MHz)379mDTG-810,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 U&W, 27 U&Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 63 GREAT! romance mix, 73 HobbyMaker, 75 That's 90s, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

DTG-8 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?

regional news image
BBC Newsline 0.6m homes 2.5%
from Belfast BT2 8HQ, 1,051km northeast (51°)
to BBC Northern Ireland region - 46 masts.
regional news image
UTV Live 0.6m homes 2.5%
from Belfast BT7 1EB, 1,051km northeast (51°)
to UTV region - 46 masts.

Are there any self-help relays?

Elliotts HillTransposer13 km SE Ballymena, Co. Antrim90 homes (according to B9 Energy)

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

1984-971997-981998-20122012-134 Sep 2019
C/D EC/D EC/D EC/D E TB E K T
C40SDN
C41BBCA
C43ArqA
C44D3+4
C46ArqB
C47BBCB
C48_local_local
C49tv_offArqB
C50tv_offBBCA
C54tv_offSDN
C55tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBCB
C58tv_offArqA
C59tv_offITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesD3+4
C62BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves
C65C4wavesC4wavesC4waves

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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

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Limavady 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. Limavady 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.

Comments
Saturday, 30 October 2021
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Stephen Orr
7:59 PM

My TV aerial should be directed to Limavady and I don't appear to be able to get the various HD channels 101-105. We are located in Portballintrae, so on edge of signal.

Have retuned the TV a number of times without success.

Is this expected, or should I investigate further.

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Chris.SE
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11:51 PM

Stephen Orr:

It's not quite as simple as being "on the edge of signal" - there are areas further afield that are predicted to and will get good reception. This is more to do with the terrain and general lie of the land in your locale which is why there is a Relay transmitter at Bushmills which transmits the 3 PSB multiplexes (Freeview Light).

There are parts of your area that will get good signals for the 3 PSB multiplexes from Limavady and some parts may receive the COM multiplexes but with variable to poor reception.
We need a full postcode to look at predicted reception in your particular locale. But there is no general reason why you shouldn't get the BBCB HD/PSB3 multiplex equally as well as the BBCA/PSB1 or D3&4/PSB2 multiplexes.

If your aerial is pointi9ng at Limavady it should be pointing roughly at a bearing of 245 degrees, that's 25 degrees S of due W (almost WSW) with the rods (or squashed Xs) horizontal.
Try a manual tune for UHF channel C47 which is the one for PSB3 from Limavady.

You'd probably be predicted to get good reception of the 3 PSB multiplexes from Bushmills but we'd need that full postcode to confirm. Whilst to receive it, technically the aerial should point at it - bearing 128 degrees - fractionally E of SE, with the rods vertical, however aerials have "side-lobes" and sometimes receive signals from the side even with the wrong polarisation if they are strong enough. It might be worth you trying a manual tune of UHF 37 for PSB3 from it, just to see if you get anything.

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Wednesday, 17 November 2021
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Francis Byrne
7:41 PM

Hi Chris, thanks for your reply from a few weeks ago. I finally had a chance to go up into the attic to try a few things out! I finally have reception on all muxes (with a small caveat) and it turned out to be a combination of several different issues.

I found that when I connected just my upstairs TV directly to the aerial, I got *all* channels in! This didn't happen a few months back but I had a weaker aerial up at that point, so hadn't initially thought of trying that again. I next found out, through trial and error, that the new TV distribution box I bought was faulty. I got this exchanged and initially, still very bad channel breakup on all apart from the Irish muxes. In the meantime, I had also bought a 700MHz "5G"-filter from Screwfix, so I thought .. let's give this a shot to see if it makes any difference. I plug it into the aerial input of the distribution box .. and everything came in again! So, in the end, it looks like it was a combination of the faulty box and being (apparently) too near a 700MHz mast (many of which are being used for 4G at the moment) that was preventing me get a stable picture .. and transmitter works in the middle of it all, didn't help!

I now have the muxes on both the upstairs and downstairs TV, including the HD channels on ch 47. The caveat? The mux with "Pop" (on ch 46) comes and goes as it is substantially weaker than any of the others. Overall, that's not a big deal as the kids can watch it on satellite downstairs and in the morning times, if they're upstairs, it works. I'm delighted to finally get Channel 4 HD in at last (without having to resort to non-Freesat channel mode on a separate satellite box).

Thank you for all of your tips and ideas to try out! TBH if it wasn't for your projected coverage maps and channel listings, I'd probably have given up a long time ago as not being viable.

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Saturday, 30 December 2023
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Tom Moore
9:27 AM
Coleraine

No tv signal today. 30 Dec 2023
Aerial is in the roof space
Post code BT51 3NY

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Tom Moore
9:29 AM
Coleraine

No signal today 30 Dec

Aerial in roof space ( has been fo 30 years)

BT51 3NY

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Darren
9:30 AM

Tom Moore: no signal in Limavady. Aerial in roofs pace.
Bt490uf

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Chris.SE
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7:46 PM

Tom Moore:

The BBC did report a fault at the transmitter, but you should now have signals back.
From 8:39am to 9:54am on 30th Dec 2023 Off the air due to a fault.

Hope you did not retune when you had no signal. It doesn't matter if it's due to transmitter faults, engineering, weather conditions or your own aerial system - it's never recommend if you'd been tuned correctly,.
You can't tune to signals that aren't there and the net effect is often just to clear the correct tuning, so you receive nothing until you are correctly tuned again.

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7:47 PM

Darren :

See reply to Tom Moore above.

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