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The symbol shows the location of the Brougher Mountain (Northern Ireland) transmitter which serves 36,000 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 Brougher Mountain (Northern Ireland) mast?

Brougher Mountain transmitter - Brougher Mountain transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 25/03/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels Digital tick


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Which Freeview channels does the Brougher Mountain transmitter broadcast?

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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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 H max
C29 (538.0MHz)365mDTG-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
C31+ (554.2MHz)365mDTG-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),

PSB3
BBCB
 H max
C37 (602.0MHz)365mDTG-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 -10dB
C21+ (474.2MHz)365mDTG-82,000W
Channel icons
20 Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 Dave ja vu, 58 ITVBe +1, 59 ITV3 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 78 TCC, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 89 ITV4 +1, 91 WildEarth, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 267 Al Jazeera English, plus 30 others

COM5
ArqA
 H -10dB
C24 (498.0MHz)373mDTG-82,000W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 Yesterday +1, 75 That's 90s, 233 Sky News, plus 11 others

COM6
ArqB
 H -10dB
C27 (522.0MHz)373mDTG-82,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 W, 27 Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! romance, 56 That's TV (UK), 61 GREAT! movies extra, 63 GREAT! romance mix, 71 That’s 60s, 73 HobbyMaker, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

NIMM
 H -13dB
C30- (545.8MHz)365mDTG-111,000W
Channel icons
53 TG4, 54 RTÉ One, 55 RTÉ Two,

DTG-8 64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-11 QPSK 32KN 2/3 10.0Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

The Brougher Mountain (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 Brougher Mountain transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Newsline 0.6m homes 2.5%
from Belfast BT2 8HQ, 1,048km northeast (50°)
to BBC Northern Ireland region - 46 masts.
regional news image
UTV Live 0.6m homes 2.5%
from Belfast BT7 1EB, 1,048km northeast (50°)
to UTV region - 46 masts.

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

1950s-80s1984-971997-981998-20122012-134 Sep 2019
VHFA K TA K TA K TA K TA K T
C5BBCtvwaves
C21+SDNSDN
C22BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves+D3+4
C24ArqAArqA
C25ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesBBCB
C27ArqBArqB
C28BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCA
C29BBCA
C30-NIMMNIMM
C31D3+4
C32C4wavesC4wavesC4waves
C37BBCB

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Table shows multiplexes names see this article;
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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(-17dB) 2kW
NIMM(-20dB) 1000W
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D*(-23dB) 500W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Brougher Mountain 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. Brougher Mountain 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

Comments
Wednesday, 3 December 2014
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

1:32 PM

BROUGHER MOUNTAIN transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 10:32 today. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 10:04 today, Radio 2 FM Weak Signal from 10:04 today, Radio 3 FM Weak Signal from 10:04 today, Radio 4 FM Weak Signal from 10:04 today, Radio Ulster FM Weak Signal f [BBC]

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Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

4:32 PM

BROUGHER MOUNTAIN transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 10:32 today to 13:17 today. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 10:04 today to 13:17 today, Radio 2 FM Weak Signal from 10:04 today to 13:17 today, Radio 3 FM Weak Signal from 10:04 today to 13:17 today, Radio 4 FM [BBC]

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Thursday, 4 December 2014
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

4:32 AM

BROUGHER MOUNTAIN transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 10:32 yesterday to 13:17 yesterday. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 10:04 yesterday to 13:17 yesterday, Radio 2 FM Weak Signal from 10:04 yesterday to 13:17 yesterday, Radio 3 FM Weak Signal from 10:04 yesterda [BBC]

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Friday, 5 December 2014
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

4:32 AM

BROUGHER MOUNTAIN transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 10:32 on 03 Dec to 13:17 on 03 Dec. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 10:04 on 03 Dec to 13:17 on 03 Dec, Radio 2 FM Weak Signal from 10:04 on 03 Dec to 13:17 on 03 Dec, Radio 3 FM Weak Signal from 10:04 on 03 De [BBC]

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Darren
2:41 PM

Why are we having weak signal in lisnaskea today. There is no mention of works

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Friday, 6 February 2015
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Austin Grant
8:22 PM

Dear sir madam'
I live in buncrana and I get all the stations on channel 22 but I can,t get the BBC stations on channel 28. I would be grateful if you could help me. I have a group A outside aerial. Thank you.

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Dave Lindsay
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

9:00 PM

Austin Grant: If you are in Buncrana at the side of Lough Swilly, then I'm amazed you can receive anything from Brougher Mountain! Presumably you can't pick up from Limavady.

Other than the C28 signal from Brougher not reaching you, the reason might be because Malin transmitter also uses C28.

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jb38
sentiment_very_satisfiedPlatinum

9:23 PM

Austin Grant: Further to that said by Dave Lindsay, Buncranna is indicated as being covered by the Londonderry transmitter, the BBC being on C44 and ITV on C41, transmissions from Londonderry being vertically polarised, i.e the aerial elements facing up and down.

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Austin
11:15 PM

Austin Grant:
Thanks lads for your information

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Sunday, 22 March 2015
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maloner
11:33 PM

Hi there,Are you sure PSB3 on ch25 is at 20KW - I suspect it might be only on 2KW as I recieve the chan 22 and 28 very strong, but no 25? TV supports HD/MPEG4

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