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The symbol shows the location of the Ferryside (Carmarthenshire, Wales) transmitter which serves less than 500 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 Ferryside (Carmarthenshire, Wales) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Ferryside 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
C21+ (474.2MHz)79mDTG-25W
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 -7dB
C30- (545.8MHz)79mDTG-5W
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),

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C24 (498.0MHz)79mDTG-25W
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
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the effected channels

The Ferryside (Carmarthenshire, Wales) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, GREAT! action, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, GREAT! romance, 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, TCC, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, W, Yesterday +1.

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 Ferryside transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Wales Today 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 2YQ, 84km east-southeast (112°)
to BBC Wales region - 206 masts.
regional news image
ITV Cymru Wales 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 6XJ, 83km east-southeast (115°)
to ITV Wales region - 206 masts.

How will the Ferryside (Carmarthenshire, Wales) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20042005-1331 Dec 2018
A K TA K TA K TA K TA K T
C21BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves+BBCABBCA
C24ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesBBCBBBCB
C27BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesSDNSDN
C30-D3+4D3+4
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 29 Nov 04 and 30 Mar 05.

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

SDN, BBCA, BBCB 25W
Analogue 1-4(-0.4dB) 23W
D3+4(-7dB) 5W

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

Sep 1962-Jul 1964Wales (West and North) Television (Teledu Cymru)
Jul 1964-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. Ferryside 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
Thursday, 15 November 2012
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frank ward
7:19 PM
Kilgetty

just moved to sa68 postcode (Kilgetty) area, according to the reception post code checker I can not get a signal from any transmitter at this location? must say I thought this might be the case as all local arrays are on mile high poles and point in all directions, looks like I have to stay on free to air satellite. Don't suppose there are any plans to upgrade transmission, or am i just being silly?

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Dave Lindsay
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7:57 PM

frank ward: Predictors can never be entirely accurate. They certainly don't say what you "should" be able to receive.

The fact that you live on a slope could be an issue as it could mean that what can and cannot be received varies by property. And of course, being in a bungalow you are lower to the ground (I assume this to be the case having looked at Streetview). Looking at where others are receiving from may be a useful start.

By my reckoning, there are a number of aerials on Preseli which is in the direction that the land goes upwards.

Some aerials appear to be pointing at Huntshaw Cross (154 degrees, horizontally polarised). However this is across the Severn and therefore doesn't broadcast Welsh regional programming.

Then there are a few vertically polarised aerials pointing east which could be on Ferryside (83 degrees) or perhaps Kilvey Hill (104 degrees). The thing with Ferryside is that it is 15 miles away and is only a few watts, so anything less than line-of-sight won't work. Plus Greenhill is co-channel on 21 (BBC) and 24 (HD) which probably explains why Ferryside is at 25W for these whereas 30 (ITV1, C4 etc) is 5W.

Where does your aerial or aerials point?

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Sunday, 26 January 2014
Transmitter engineering
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4:23 AM

FERRYSIDE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Reduced Quality from 23:56 yesterday to 00:51 today, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 23:56 yesterday to 00:51 today. [BBC]

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Monday, 27 January 2014
Transmitter engineering
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4:24 AM

FERRYSIDE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Reduced Quality from 23:56 on 25 Jan to 00:51 yesterday, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 23:56 on 25 Jan to 00:51 yesterday. [BBC]

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Tuesday, 28 January 2014
Transmitter engineering
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4:23 AM

FERRYSIDE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Reduced Quality from 23:56 on 25 Jan to 00:51 on 26 Jan, HD Digital TV Reduced Quality from 23:56 on 25 Jan to 00:51 on 26 Jan. [BBC]

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Friday, 7 February 2014
Transmitter engineering
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4:23 AM

FERRYSIDE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 12:50 yesterday to 17:43 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 12:50 yesterday to 17:43 yesterday. [BBC]

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Saturday, 8 February 2014
Transmitter engineering
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4:23 AM

FERRYSIDE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 12:50 on 06 Feb to 17:43 on 06 Feb, HD Digital TV Off Air from 12:50 on 06 Feb to 17:43 on 06 Feb. [BBC]

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Wednesday, 12 February 2014
Transmitter engineering
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4:23 PM

FERRYSIDE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 14:31 today, HD Digital TV Off Air from 14:31 today. [BBC]

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Thursday, 13 February 2014
Transmitter engineering
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4:23 AM

FERRYSIDE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 14:31 yesterday to 23:45 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air from 14:31 yesterday to 23:45 yesterday. [BBC]

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Friday, 14 February 2014
Transmitter engineering
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4:24 AM

FERRYSIDE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 14:31 on 12 Feb to 23:45 on 12 Feb, HD Digital TV Off Air from 14:31 on 12 Feb to 23:45 on 12 Feb. [BBC]

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