Full Freeview on the Divis (Northern Ireland) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Divis (Northern Ireland) transmitter which serves 440,000 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 Divis (Northern Ireland) mast?
Divis transmitter - Divis transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 11/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Divis 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
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Divis transmitter?
BBC Newsline 0.6m homes 2.5%
from Belfast BT2 8HQ, 1,044km northeast (51°)
to BBC Northern Ireland region - 46 masts.
Are there any self-help relays?
| Chapel Fields | Transposer | Central Belfast | 61 homes |
How will the Divis (Northern Ireland) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2012 | 2012-13 | 4 Mar 2020 | ||||
| VHF | A K T | A K T | A K T | K T | W T | ||||
| C1 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C21 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | +D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
| C23 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C24 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C26 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C27 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C29 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C30 | LBT | ||||||||
| C31 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C33 | com7 | ||||||||
| C34 | com8 | ||||||||
| C36 | _local | ||||||||
| C48 | NIMM | NIMM | |||||||
| C55tv_off | com7tv_off | ||||||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off |
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 | 500kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 100kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 50kW | |
| com8 | (-16dB) 12.7kW | |
| com7 | (-16.1dB) 12.4kW | |
| LBT | (-20dB) 5kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-23.4dB) 2.3kW | |
| Mux C* | (-24dB) 2kW | |
| Mux D* | (-24.9dB) 1.6kW | |
| NIMM | (-47dB) 10W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Divis transmitter area
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Friday, 24 January 2014
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Gavin4:55 PM
Briantist: I tried that, I get an error.....It seems to require me to populate both the email and twitter boxes.
Sorry for getting off topic.
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Saturday, 1 February 2014
I was wondering why the Ajax update system isn't returning the correct data.
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This is a test designed to see if the AJAX code is now working.
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Friday, 28 February 2014
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PJH3:16 PM
Brian: It's now the 289th February and NVTV has not appeared on Channel 8 from Divis on the 274th February. .
Not sure if there's a revised start date for the channel
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KMJ,Derby9:40 PM
PJH: The launch date for NVTV is currently shown as September 2014 on another site.
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KMJ,Derby: I'm going to remove the start dates... no point saying what Ofcom says.
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P. Kieran Ward10:54 PM
Brian!
I sent you a private email regarding this matter. I included correspondence I had with NVTV regarding the re-launch date. This station was on the air in analogue up to DSO from a local transmitter in north-west Belfast.
They (NVTV) had to start to raise the money required to pay the transmission fees to Arqiva I am lead to believe.
P. Kieran Ward
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Saturday, 1 March 2014
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PJH1:40 AM
Haven't heard that one KMJ. September 2013 was supposed to be the original start date, and Thursday was widely publicised as the revised one.
Disappointed it didn't appear but not really surprised. Can't say I'm optimistic about September 2014 either, given the nature of these things.
Indeed Kieran, I could receive it over at my parent's house in East Belfast but no sign of it on analogue at this location. Channel 33 is mostly receivable but it does break up on occasions.
From what I saw, the programmes on NVTV were actually quite good and much better than their radio station when it was on air a few years back.
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Sunday, 2 March 2014
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P. Kieran Ward12:23 AM
Hi PJH!
I live in North Belfast not too far from the former location of NVTV's analogue transmitter at Glencairn Museum (known as the Ballygomartin Transmitter) and while their signal was quite weak I linked the local country music programmes on the station. When DSO was about to happen I had a few emails with Dave Hyndman from NVTV but when I contacted NVTV towards the middle of February I got the impression that Dave Hyndman was possibly no longer there. I do realise that the fees for transmission from the Divis transmitter will be quite hefty.
We'll see what September 2014 brings!
P. Kieran Ward
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P. Kieran Ward12:25 AM
Oh a typo!
Substitute 'linked' with 'liked'
Kieran
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