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Freeview Light on the Usk (Monmouthshire, Wales) transmitter

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The symbol shows the location of the Usk (Monmouthshire, Wales) transmitter which serves 1,300 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 Usk (Monmouthshire, Wales) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Usk 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
 H max
C40 (626.0MHz)70mDTG-4W
Channel icons
1 BBC One (SD) Wales, 2 BBC Two Wales, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 14 others

PSB2
D3+4
 H max
C43 (650.0MHz)70mDTG-4W
Channel icons
5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Wales), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 H max
C46 (674.0MHz)70mDTG-4W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Wales, 102 BBC Two HD Wales, 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 110 Channel 4 HD (Wales), 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels

The Usk (Monmouthshire, Wales) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, 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 Usk transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Wales Today 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 2YQ, 32km southwest (227°)
to BBC Wales region - 206 masts.
regional news image
ITV Cymru Wales 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 6XJ, 37km southwest (226°)
to ITV Wales region - 206 masts.

How will the Usk (Monmouthshire, Wales) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20102010-1329 Jun 2019
B E TB E TB E TC/D E TB E K T
C40BBCA
C42C4wavesC4wavesC4waves
C43D3+4
C45BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves
C46BBCB
C48ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesBBCA
C52tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesD3+4
C56tv_offBBCB

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 3 Mar 10 and 31 Mar 10.

How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?

Analogue 1-4 22W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7.9dB) 3.6W

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

Jan 1958-Jul 1968Television Wales and the West
Jul 1968-Feb 2004Harlech Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Usk 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
Friday, 30 September 2011
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Judith Lee
10:35 AM
Usk

From Wednesday 28th September 2011 we lost ALL WElSH digital channels (including radio Wales)on all freeview TVs in house (SKy is fine) also no Film 4, ITV3 etc etc..reduced to 53 channels (most of which are blank!) from 80+ .Nieghbours have same problem..no shared aerial. Why??? Until WEd everything was great! Living in Wales, we want WElsh tV!!

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Mike Dimmick
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12:19 PM

Judith Lee: Two multiplexes at Mendip moved to their final channels on 28 September, and these final locations clash with the transmissions from Usk.

My guess is that your aerial is horizontally-polarized and pointing at Mendip. Digital UK predict that you should get a reliable service from Usk if you have the right aerial set up correctly.

You will not be able to get the commercial multiplexes from Mendip any more, however.
See Will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice for the explanation of why Usk will not get any more services.

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Friday, 13 February 2015
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Lucy Williams
10:15 AM

Hi
We are living in the blackbarn lane area of usk but cannot find freeview signal so are assuming we have to go down the free sat route. Is this correct or should we be able to pick it up?

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Tuesday, 24 March 2015
Wednesday, 25 March 2015
Dave Lindsay
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12:13 AM

Ceri: Not necessarily. A booster will only help in cases where the signal isn't strong enough. If the signal is of insufficient quality then it won't help.

If it's pointing to Usk then be aware that the three channels (frequencies) it uses as the same as used by Mendip for its COM channels (those you can't get from Usk), albeit that Mendip's horizontally polarised and Usk is vertically so.

On looking at StreetView there are an awful lot of aerials facing Mendip. This, and the prediction from Digital UK, therefore makes me wonder whether the issue is interference from Mendip.

If this is the case then maybe moving the aerial to somewhere that the Mendip signal isn't likely to be as strong, but where there is still line-of-sight (albeit through the roof tiles) to the Usk transmitter.

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Monday, 17 December 2018
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Geoff Punnett
6:44 PM

Are there any plans for beaming DAB radio from the Usk transmitter. The current DAB and FM signals are very poor, and subject to frequent interruptions, in Usk and surrounding area.

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StevensOnln1
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7:58 PM

Geoff Punnett: There are no current plans which have been announced for any further rollout of DAB transmitters. It is expected that when the government eventually set a date for FM radio to be switched off that plans will then be announced for further DAB transmitters to be rolled out in areas which currently have FM reception but don't have the same BBC and local stations available on DAB.

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Sunday, 13 February 2022
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Matthew Hall
11:13 AM

Are you sure the Usk repeater is Horizontally polarised?
It is approximately inline with the Mendip transmitter (Tx Hor).
Thanks.

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StevensOnln1
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2:15 PM

Matthew Hall: Entering the Usk transmitter's postcode found at the top of this page into Freeview's detailed coverage checker shows that Usk is vertically polarised rather than horizontal and currently uses UHF channels 40/43/46 which are not used at Mendip, not that anything is predicted to be receivable from Mendip anyway.

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