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Freeview Light on the Carnmoney Hill (Northern Ireland) transmitter

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The symbol shows the location of the Carnmoney Hill (Northern Ireland) transmitter which serves 21,000 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 Carnmoney Hill (Northern Ireland) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Carnmoney Hill 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
 V max
C46 (674.0MHz)254mDTG-16W
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
 V max
C40 (626.0MHz)254mDTG-16W
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
 V max
C43 (650.0MHz)254mDTG-16W
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

NIMM
 V max
C48 (690.0MHz)254mDTG-1116W
Channel icons
53 TG4, 54 RTÉ One, 55 RTÉ Two,

DTG-11 QPSK 32KN 2/3 10.0Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

The Carnmoney Hill (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 Carnmoney Hill transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Newsline 0.6m homes 2.5%
from Belfast BT2 8HQ, 1,044km northeast (51°)
to BBC Northern Ireland region - 46 masts.
regional news image
UTV Live 0.6m homes 2.5%
from Belfast BT7 1EB, 1,044km northeast (51°)
to UTV region - 46 masts.

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

1984-971997-981998-20122012-1330 Sep 2019-
B E TB E TB E TB E K TB E K T
C40BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesD3+4D3+4
C43ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesBBCBBBCB
C46BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBCABBCA
C48NIMMNIMM
C50tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4waves

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
NIMM, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-1dB) 16W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Divis 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. Carnmoney Hill 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, 13 October 2012
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Brendan
11:37 AM

I'm living in Lylehill Road East (BT39 0HQ) about 300m from where the Roughfort Pub used to be. After the DSO & re-tuning several times I've lost BBC1, BBC2, Film4. My aerial is positioned in the loft. Can you explain this ?

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Dave Lindsay
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12:08 PM

Brendan : Some older receivers won't work with the post-switchover signals which could explain why BBC One and BBC Two aren't being received. Knowledge of the make and model number will allow advice to be provided as to whether this is the case or not.

You have posted on the page for the Carnmoney Hill transmitter which does not broadcast Freeview before switchover. At present it only broadcasts BBC standard definition services and after 24th October will carry Public Service channels only (so no Film4, Dave etc).

Does your aerial point to Divis which is at 168 degrees? (Aerial will be horizontal)

Carnmoney Hill is at 100 degrees with the aerial vertical.

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Peter Henderson
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7:20 PM

Brendan: According to Digital UK's postcode checker, you should be getting excellent reception from both Divis and Carnmoney Hill post DSO, as well as the NI mux from Black Mountain and Carnmoney Hill.

Dave could be right, though this shouldn't affect Film Four at this stage.

The BBC 1 and BBC 2 problem could be caused by signal overload, so you may need to get someone out to either remove/bypass an amplifier, or fit an attenuator.

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Peter Henderson
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7:26 PM

Gail: I've no idea as I don't know what the set up proceedures are on your T.V.

However, after the 24th there should be no need to switch to analogue T.V. as all analogue signals will be switched off on that date.

I presume you are receiving Carnmoney Hill as this is the first time you've actually had Freeview stations ?

Wait until next Wednesday when you'll no longer need analogue T.V.

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jb38
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11:49 PM

Gail: If you are sure that you saved the chanels picked up during a Freeview auto-tune as not all TV's / boxes will automatically save them, then you should completely reset your TV by carrying out a "factory reset", sometimes known as "default setting" then follow this with a normal auto-tune.

If this does not cure the problem then please indicate the model of TV or box in question, although I would wait until after October 24th when switchover is complete before making any alterations, as you would have to carry out a rescan then anyway.

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Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Briantist
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9:17 AM

At switchover the Carnmoney Hill transmitter will be off air from midnight until 9am 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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Friday, 2 November 2012
Dave Lindsay
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12:38 AM

norm: Carnmoney Hill does not broadcast the Commercial channels and is not likely to ever do so. See here for an explanation:

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

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Sunday, 3 February 2013
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David
7:05 PM
Newtownabbey

Will we be receiving any COM4/5/6 ( i think) channels such as 4Music, Viva, etc? and Is there anyway of picking up signal from the Divis Transmitter?

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