Freeview Light on the Newry South (Northern Ireland) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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54.167,-6.328 or 54°10'0"N 6°19'40"W

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The symbol shows the location of the Newry South (Northern Ireland) transmitter which serves less than 500 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 Newry South (Northern Ireland) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Newry South 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.

Mux	H/V	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	V max	C44 (658.0MHz)	98m	DTG-	4W
	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	C41 (634.0MHz)	98m	DTG-	4W
	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 TV 3,
PSB3 BBCB	V max	C47 (682.0MHz)	98m	DTG-	4W
	46 5SELECT, 57 U&Eden, 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, 203 CBBC HD, 204 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others 66 TBN UK,

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 43 Freeview channels?

The Newry South (Northern Ireland) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! movies, GREAT! player, GREAT! romance, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, YAAAS!, Legend, PBS America, POP UP, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's Melody, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Yesterday, U&Drama 1, U&W.

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 Newry South transmitter?

BBC Newsline 0.6m homes 2.5%
from Belfast BT2 8HQ, 1,042km northeast (50°)
to BBC Northern Ireland region - 46 masts.

UTV Live 0.6m homes 2.5%
from Belfast BT7 1EB, 1,042km northeast (50°)
to UTV region - 46 masts.

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

	1950s-80s	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2012	2012-13	30 Sep 2019-
	VHF	B E T	B E T	B E T	B E K T	B E K T
C4	BBCtv_waves
C39		BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves
C41					D3+4	D3+4
C42		C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves
C44					BBCA	BBCA
C45		BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves
C47					BBCB	BBCB
C49_{tv_off}		ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves

_{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
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-7dB) 4W

Local transmitter maps

Newry South Freeview Divis TV region BBC Northern Ireland UTV

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

Oct 1959-May 2006	Ulster Television
May 2006-Dec 2014	UTV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Newry South 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.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

Radiation patterns withheld

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john ohare
1:05 PM
Newry

jb38: thanks jb for the advice, guess i will try aim at or would this be to far away to make a difference,? cant aim it at cause i would lose my rte or could i ?

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john's: J's Freeview map J's terrain plot J's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage

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john ohare
8:24 PM
Newry

iam in newry just north i cant pick up because of line of sight problem, nearest is and , tried newry north but this only a 10 w , not great , would it be possible to come of camlough transmitter bearing in mind that i also have a cd pointing at clermont for rte, i can see that these two transmitters are the same group so how could i mix them or what diplexer could i use, if at all this is possible?

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john's: J's Freeview map J's terrain plot J's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage

Briantist

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9:17 AM

At the will be off air from midnight until 3pm on 24th October 2012 - see UK Digital switchover ends - Northern Ireland completes on 24th October 2012 | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice for full details.

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Mr t
3:39 PM
Newry

I live in Newry rathfriland road area, my friend who lives in barcroft pk can pick up a lot more like film 4 and hd tv , where I can only get bbc and few other channels why is this?

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Mr's: M's Freeview map M's terrain plot M's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage

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KMJ,Derby

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4:12 PM

Mr t: To receive the COM multiplexes (Film4, QVC. Sky News etc) you need to be able to receive signals direct from . A group "A" set for horizontal polarisation (and pointing to Divis) is required, assuming you have no local obstructions in the path. HD transmissions are available from all UK TV transmitters. To receive these you need a TV or set top box which supports DVB-T2 transmissions. A sold as "" will normally require the addition of a box.

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Dave Lindsay

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4:45 PM

Mr t: In addition to what's already been said by KMJ, see:

Londonderry transmitter | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice

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Sean O'Suilleabhain
7:01 PM

A useful alternative use for the DTG-6 256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4 Mux on the Tansmitter would to replace it with a NIMM Mux to transmit TG4, RT One, RT Two and RT Raidi na Gaeltachta to residents on the shadow of Flagstaff Hill, on the B79 Newry to Omeath road, which blocks signals from the transmitter approx 15Km awayA precedent is the NIMM mux on the (Northern Ireland) transmitter. The Only alternative for residents in this area to view TG4, RT One and RT Two is to subscribe to

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StevensOnln1

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7:36 PM

Sean O'Suilleabhain: The BBC aren't going to remove their HD to replace it with Irish . I'm not sure what you mean by being a precedent as the NIMM mux is broadcast alongside the six main multiplexes, it hasn't replaced one of them.

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