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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Limavady (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
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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Sunday, 18 August 2019
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StevensOnln110:09 PM
F Byrne: There is no recent engineering work shown for Limavady, although there are several frequency changes taking place on 4th September. As you're in the Republic of Ireland and therefore don't have a UK postcode, I don't think the Digital UK checker will be much use. Have you checked for any loose or damaged cables or connections behind your TV?
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Monday, 19 August 2019
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Chris.SE5:58 AM
Limavady
F Byrne:
As StevensOnln1 says the Digital UK - Coverage checker may not be of any help, but you could try it to see. You are quite a long way from the transmitter and parts of your locale are not (well) covered. Due to the changes coming up there may well have been undocumented transmission dropouts.
If you click on the transmitter postcode BT49 9LJ at the top of this page, it will open the checker at the transmitter site where you can at least see the UHF channel change due on the 4th September. All the multiplexes are moving, you could even try a manual tune for UHF40 to see if the SDN multiplex is already transmitting there (unlikely but some transmitters around the UK have occasionally started a multiplex on the new channel before the switchover date).
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Chris.SE's: mapC's Freeview map terrainC's terrain plot wavesC's frequency data C's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Saturday, 24 August 2019
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F Byrne9:36 PM
Thanks StevensOnLn1 & Chris.SE for your replies. Hopefully things will improve again after September 4. When the Freeview transmitters were on low power before analogue tv was switched off, we picked up all 6 UK muxes without any problem. Could be that ch 40 is being tested out, as you mention - some days it is perfect, other days unwatchable.
Now, I recently repointed my DAB antenna to point at Divis to pick up ch 11A .. I haven't tried moving it again to see if it is causing issues on ch 40, even if the DAB antenna isn't meant to pick up past ch 13 (the signals are combined into one aerial cable for the tv / radio ports in the house.
Thanks again!
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Wednesday, 4 September 2019
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F Byrne8:35 PM
Ok, I did the retune today. Even with my old yagi wideband antenna from 2009, all channels came in. Interestingly, the weakest channels are those on COM6 (Yesterday, CBS Drama, ...) On ch 46. Signal strength is 20% lower than the other commercial muxes. Same as before switchover - that mux is the weakest, even though your guide indicates it is the same strength as the other 2?
Either way .. no new / narrower aerial is required .. for now, anyway. My TV is too old to pick up the BBC HD mux, so can't test that at the moment
Question: is my 4G filter any use now to be kept plugged in, now that all the channels have shifted down? I'm assuming I'm losing a little gain with it inline but was not sure.
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Thursday, 5 September 2019
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Chris.SE4:31 AM
F Byrne:
You can check your predicted reception by using the coverage checker Digital UK - Coverage checker if you have a UK postcode.
There will be some insertion loss from the 4G filter but it's likely to be very small, try it without and see if it makes any difference. The disadvantage of not using it may be that if you have any very strong 4G signals they may saturate your TV front end reducing the sensitivity hence reducing signal level of other received channels.
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F Byrne8:55 PM
Thanks, Chris, for your reply! I live in Letterkenny, in Co Donegal. I'll leave the 4G filter in for now and see how it goes with the weakest mux. It was slightly damaged so if I unplug it, I might not get it back in, should it be necessary! If it wasn't for the fact my aerial is on the roof of a two-storey house, I'd be tempted to upgrade it to a K band aerial, since it cost 150 last time for installation..
Btw - thanks also for all the info you have on your website!
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Monday, 4 November 2019
Hi, back again! A few weeks on, ch 46 is so weak that it is frequently unwatchable, such as this evening. I tried looking up your coverage maps but they do not appear to be updated yet post-5G changeover?
C46 (674.0MHz) after switchover | free and easy
The above does not show any channels from Limavady.
I've noticed that ch 43 can be unwatchable at times (mornings in particular) and then without any errors the rest of the day. Definitely far more interference since the latest changeover...
Ch 43 is stronger than ch 46 yet their apparent transmission power is the same.
(I'm in Letterkenny, at a high enough point where one time, I used to get ch21 from Divis, showing Channel 4).
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Thursday, 11 June 2020
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David Schindler12:03 PM
Portrush
I understand that there were adjustments done to the Limavady transmitter last year. Ever since we have had problems with our reception especially on windy days. We have 3 different aerials in the house so I don't think the problem is this end.
Postcode BT56 8NP
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David's: mapD's Freeview map terrainD's terrain plot wavesD's frequency data D's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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Chris.SE4:45 PM
David Schindler:
The changes last September moved the multiplex UHF channels as part of the 700MHz clearance program from aerial Group C/D to Group B.
If your aerials are older C/D group (and lower gain models) and there is maybe any trees on the line-of sight nearby, this is the likely explanation for your reception problems.
If you are contemplating changing your aerials it may be best to go for a Group K as they tend to have better gain at the lower channels than a Group B (or generally Group T or Wideband across Group B) as this will also allow for any potential future changes if in the coming years decisions are made to move all channels into Group A (most of us hope not!).
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Wednesday, 8 July 2020
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Francis Byrne10:04 PM
Hi! I was wondering when the UK channel coverage maps will be updated on your website? For example, if I click on ch 46 on the Limavady page to see what other sites use ch 46, the map of transmitter sites does not show Limavady. I'm thinking it is showing the map of pre 5G changes.
Thanks in advance!
..Francis
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