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The symbol shows the location of the Wenvoe (Cardiff, Wales) transmitter which serves 360,000 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 Wenvoe (Cardiff, Wales) mast?

Wenvoe transmitter - Wenvoe transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 25/03/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels Digital tick


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Which Freeview channels does the Wenvoe transmitter broadcast?

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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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 H max
C41+ (634.2MHz)384mDTG-100,000W
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
C44 (658.0MHz)384mDTG-100,000W
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
 H max
C47 (682.0MHz)384mDTG-100,000W
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
 H -3dB
C42+ (642.2MHz)384mDTG-850,000W
Channel icons
 E4 (Wales), 20 Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 57 Dave ja vu, 58 ITVBe +1, 59 ITV3 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 78 TCC, 81 Blaze +1, 83 Together TV, 89 ITV4 +1, 91 WildEarth, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 267 Al Jazeera English, plus 30 others

COM5
ArqA
 H -3dB
C45+ (666.2MHz)384mDTG-850,000W
Channel icons
11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 Drama +1, 65 That's TV 2, 70 Quest +1, 74 Yesterday +1, 75 That's 90s, 233 Sky News, plus 11 others

COM6
ArqB
 H -3dB
C39+ (618.2MHz)384mDTG-850,000W
Channel icons
12 Quest, 25 W, 27 Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! romance, 56 That's TV (UK), 61 GREAT! movies extra, 63 GREAT! romance mix, 71 That’s 60s, 73 HobbyMaker, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 18 others

LCF
 H -10dB
C37 (602.0MHz)384mDTG-1210,000W
Channel icons
from 22nd September 2014: 8 Made in Cardiff,

DTG-8 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 Wenvoe transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Wales Today 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 2YQ, 6km northeast (42°)
to BBC Wales region - 206 masts.
regional news image
ITV Cymru Wales 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 6XJ, 1km east-northeast (74°)
to ITV Wales region - 206 masts.

Are there any self-help relays?

AbergwesynActive deflector7 km N Llanwrtyd Wells20 homes
BarryTransposer10 km SW city centre300 homes
Celtic ManorTransposer5 km E Newport80 homes
PentrebachTransposer3 km S Merthyr Tydfil100 homes
YstradfellteActive deflector30 km NE Port Talbot20 homes

How will the Wenvoe (Cardiff, Wales) transmission frequencies change over time?

1950s-80s1984-971997-981998-20102010-132013-182013-1715 May 2019
VHFB E TB E TB E TB E TB E K TW TW T
C5BBCtvwaves
C30LOCAL2
C31com7com7
C37com8com8
C39 +ArqB+ArqBArqB
C41ITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves+BBCA+BBCA+BBCABBCA
C42+SDN+SDN+SDNSDN
C44BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesD3+4D3+4D3+4D3+4
C45+ArqA+ArqA+ArqAArqA
C47C4wavesC4wavesC4wavesBBCBBBCBBBCBBBCB
C49tv_off+ArqB
C51tv_offBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2wavesLCFLCF
C55tv_offcom7tv_off
C56tv_offCOM8tv_off

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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 500kW
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 100kW
com8(-9.7dB) 53.2kW
SDN, ARQA, ARQB(-10dB) 50kW
com7(-10.3dB) 47kW
Mux 1*, LCF(-17dB) 10kW
Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D*(-20dB) 5kW

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. Wenvoe 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, 17 July 2015
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

4:31 AM

WENVOE transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air from 01:55 on 15 Jul to 01:59 on 15 Jul. [BBC]

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Monday, 28 September 2015
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Alison Day
8:49 PM

Why are some programmes and adverts showing with black horizontal bars top and bottom of the screen. This has only been happening recently. It is the same on each TV in the house.

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MikeB
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9:14 PM
Macclesfield

Alison Day: Check which channels and programmes. If you have a widescreen TV, then you'll get black bars top and bottom for a modern widescreen film - the film wouldn't fit the screen otherwise. If you watch something made in the 1970's (like Dads Army), you'll get bars at each side, for much the same reason. Most Tv's do this automatically, but some boxes/channels/TV's can be a bit random.

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Friday, 9 October 2015
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Alan Smith
12:15 PM
Bridgend

My Post Code is CF32 9LF. Although with the digital changeover we have been able to receive all of the Freeview channels from the Wenvoe Transmitter as we had a new aerial and signal booster installed, (we previously had our TV signal from the Llangeinor Transmitter), we are not able to get the newly added Talking Pictures TV channel that is meant to be available now on Freeview from Wenvoe. Have you any idea why this might be the case?

I have completed the " If you have Freeview reception problems before posting a question you must first do this" requirements as set out above but to no avail. My digital aerial is sited on our chimney on top of the roof.

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MikeB
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2:02 PM
Macclesfield

Alan Smith: I think that Talking Pictures needs a DVB-T2 tuner to get it. If you've just got Freeview, then your going to need to upgrade. I know its on my HD box, but not the TV itself.

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Saturday, 24 October 2015
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Jonathan W
6:45 PM

I live in Cwmbran, Wales but my freeview tv is getting the west regional news (bbc one west etc) instead of the welsh versions. I tried the manual retune instructions on here Digital UK - Coverage checker - Results for 18 Dean Court, Henllys, Cwmbran, NP44 6EN but when I type in the channel numbers, the signal level bar goes blank and next to signal quality it says 'none'.
Any help would be appreciated.



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jb38
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11:34 PM

Jonathan W: Your problem is basically down to the Mendip transmitter (@ 33 mls /146 degrees) being the station indicated as providing a superior signal to your area over that from your preferred station, namely Wenvoe (@ 15 mls / 219 degrees). The signal from the latter being inferior because of the signal path from same suffering from three line-of-sight obstructions starting from approximately 4 miles out prior to your aerial, L.O.S obstructions having a far greater effect on reception the nearer they are located to the receiver.

A google rooftop check of your area shows aerials pointing in a number of directions, even one mounted to receive vertically polarised transmissions, possibly from Pontypool (@ 2 mls / 352 degrees), albeit that DUK does not indicate this station as being receivable at your location, its BBC being on C23 - ITV C26.

But though the whole issue depends on which transmitter your aerial is facing towards, because should it be Mendip?, then its most unlikely that anything would be indicated on a manual tune of Wenvoe's BBC (C41) or ITV (C44), as the aerial would be positioned not that terribly far away from its dead spot for reception, that of 90 degrees from the signal.




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Tuesday, 3 November 2015
Transmitter engineering
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1:32 PM

WENVOE transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:20 today. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 11:17 today, Radio 2 FM Weak Signal from 11:17 today, Radio 3 FM Weak Signal from 11:17 today, Radio Cymru FM Weak Signal from 11:05 today, Radio Wales FM Weak Signa [BBC]

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Transmitter engineering
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4:32 PM

WENVOE transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:20 today to 14:47 today. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 11:17 today to 14:41 today, Radio 2 FM Weak Signal from 11:17 today to 15:01 today, Radio 3 FM Weak Signal from 11:17 today to 14:45 today, Radio 4 FM [BBC]

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Wednesday, 4 November 2015
Transmitter engineering
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4:32 AM

WENVOE transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:20 yesterday to 14:47 yesterday. FM: Radio 1 FM Weak Signal from 11:17 yesterday to 14:41 yesterday, Radio 2 FM Weak Signal from 11:17 yesterday to 15:01 yesterday, Radio 3 FM Weak Signal from 11:17 yesterda [BBC]

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