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The symbol shows the location of the Aberdare (Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales) transmitter which serves 18,000 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 Aberdare (Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales) mast?

Aberdare transmitter - Aberdare transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 11/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels Digital tick


Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name
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Which Freeview channels does the Aberdare 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
C24- (497.8MHz)332mDTG-100W
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
 V max
C21+ (474.2MHz)332mDTG-100W
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
 V max
C27- (521.8MHz)332mDTG-100W
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

COM4
SDN
 V max
C25+ (506.2MHz)332mDTG-8100W
Channel icons
 E4 (Wales), 20 U&Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 42 GREAT! action, 57 U&Dave ja vu, 58 ITV3 +1, 59 ITV4 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 81 Blaze +1, 91 WildEarth, 93 ITVBe +1, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 251 Al Jazeera English, 255 FRANCE 24 (in English), 265 Rok Sky +1, plus 29 others

COM5
ArqA
 V max
C22+ (482.2MHz)332mDTG-8100W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 U&Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 U&Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 &UYesterday +1, 76 That's TV 2 MCR, 233 Sky News, plus 13 others

COM6
ArqB
 V max
C28+ (530.2MHz)332mDTG-8100W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 U&W, 27 U&Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 63 GREAT! romance mix, 73 HobbyMaker, 75 That's 90s, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

DTG-8 64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

The Aberdare (Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales) 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 Aberdare transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Wales Today 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 2YQ, 26km south-southeast (153°)
to BBC Wales region - 206 masts.
regional news image
ITV Cymru Wales 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 6XJ, 28km south-southeast (162°)
to ITV Wales region - 206 masts.

How will the Aberdare (Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20102010-1315 May 2019
A K TA K TA K TA K TA K T
C21BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves+D3+4D3+4
C22+ArqAArqA
C24ITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves-BBCABBCA
C25+SDNSDN
C27BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves-BBCBBBCB
C28+ArqBArqB
C31C4wavesC4wavesC4waves

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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 500W
Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D*, SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 100W
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*(-10dB) 50W

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. Aberdare 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, 2 November 2024
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Steve Donaldson
sentiment_satisfiedSilver

1:09 PM

Paul: There is never any indication of when engineering works may be completed. The posts above from "Transmitter engineering" are sourced from this page on the Freeview website:

Planned engineering works | Freeview

This is an independent website not connected with any broadcasting company. We therefore can only work with the information we have.

Above, I advised you to check that ITV1 is tuned to UHF channel 21. This was on the understanding your aerial is directed to the Aberdare transmitter. Your comment about reduced number of channels suggests that you aren't using the Aberdare transmitter as it is a full-service one, and therefore that you shouldn't be tuned to C21 for ITV1. To know which channel you should be tuned to we need to know which transmitter it is.

There are a number of relay transmitters in the area that carry just the PSB multiplexes, meaning only BBC, ITV1, S4C, Channel 4, Channel 5, ITV3 and some other SD channels, as well as all the HD channels. It sounds like you may on one of these transmitters.

If your aerial points to a different transmitter, then I would check that you are in fact tuned to it and not another one, such as Aberdare. Advice on which this should be can only be given with knowledge of your location, preferably in the form of postcode. A not uncommon issue is that the receiver has tuned to the signal from another transmitter where one is available, and that this results in poor reception. As such, this is one of the first things to check.

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Sunday, 3 November 2024
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Chris.SE
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9:26 PM

Paul:

1) It would have been helpful is you'd qualified your "for a while" remark initially to say it's been bad for over a year.
2) A full postcode (as requested by the site immediately above the box for your post content) would enable us to advise which is the best transmitter for your location, which way your aerial should point and the polarisation, and whether you could suffer potential interference from other transmitters or sources.
3) As has already been pointed out, the Aberdare transmitter is a FULL Freeview transmitter and you should therefore get all the Freeview channels if you are receiving Aberdare which it sounds like you may not be.
4) The signal is NOT transmitted at low quality, nor been changed to have very low quality - bandwidth/bitrate/etc.
5) Do you know what aerial you have, where it is located (roof chimney/wall/loft) and roughly how old it is?
6) Do you have any aerial pre-amp or amp/splitter to feed more that one set/device? Have you changed any equipment in the last year or so?
7) You say you have reduced quality. Can you please post the signal strength and quality figures for each multiplex's UHF channel you are tuned to, as well as quoting the UHF channel.
This will help with transmitter identification that you are tuned to, and give some idea of the interference you may be getting - that is usually the cause of reduced quality.

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Chris.SE
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9:33 PM

Paul:

Sorry, I forgot to answer your question about why ITV1 is missing from the PSB2/D3&4 list towards the top of the page.
Apart from the fact it won't be ITV1, it will be ITV Wales, there's clearly some bugs in the site owners software that hasn't correctly populated the channel lists. Something only the site owner can fix and we know he's not had the time recently (btw that's not the only error/omission from the lists).

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Monday, 4 November 2024
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