Full Freeview on the Llanddona (Isle of Anglesey, Wales) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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The symbol shows the location of the Llanddona (Isle of Anglesey, Wales) transmitter which serves 44,000 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.
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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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Llanddona (Isle of Anglesey, 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 Freeview channels does the Llanddona 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
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Llanddona (Isle of Anglesey, 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 Llanddona transmitter?
BBC Wales Today 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 2YQ, 210km south-southeast (164°)
to BBC Wales region - 206 masts.
ITV Cymru Wales 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 6XJ, 213km south-southeast (165°)
to ITV Wales region - 206 masts.
How will the Llanddona (Isle of Anglesey, Wales) transmission frequencies change over time?
1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 14 Nov 2018 | ||
VHF | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | E T | E T | E T | B E T | ||
C1 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
C40 | ArqB | ArqB | BBCA | ||||||
C41 | SDN | ||||||||
C43 | SDN | SDN | SDN | D3+4 | |||||
C44 | ArqA | ||||||||
C46 | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | BBCB | |||||
C47 | ArqB | ||||||||
C50tv_off | ArqB | ||||||||
C51tv_off | _local | _local | _local | _local | |||||
C53tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||
C57tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCA | BBCA | BBCA | |||
C60tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | |||
C63 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
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 21 Oct 09 and 18 Nov 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-4 | 100kW | |
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 20kW | |
SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 10kW | |
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D* | (-20dB) 1000W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Llanddona transmitter area
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Monday, 1 February 2016
MikeP
9:45 PM
9:45 PM
Ste Byrne:
If you look at the posts above yours you will see that engineering work is being done on that transmitter and has been on-going for a few days. They never indicate when the work will finish as it depends on weather and any unexpected problems the engineers may find.
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Sunday, 1 May 2016
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Jonathan Rowlands10:25 AM
Having already updated our freeview equipment to receive certain HD channels from the Llanddonna transmitter, we have now been informed that as Llanddonna is not an extended Freeview HD (COM7 and COM8), we have now lost some channels that we watched regularly. This seems unfair and discriminatory to the population it serves. At present the only way around this is to install Freesat equipment which will incur further costs! Is there a possibility of this transmitter being upgraded or are we to remain in the dark ages?
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Monday, 22 August 2016
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Brian Springthorpe10:38 PM
Reception on all BBC channels very poor from Llandonna on 22 August 2016.
Tried retuning Freeview several times but only getting Quality 1 on BBC 1, 2, 4, Red Button and Radio. In fact of all BBC associated channels none are registering above 1.
Why?
All other channels are showing Quality 10, even the Channel 4 stuff which usually suffers more than anything.
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MikeB11:24 PM
Brian Springthorpe: If all the other muxes are fine (and don't look at just quality, you need to be looking at signal strength, which should be around 75%), that points to a problem with your aerial system. Just because a wire might be frayed or damaged, doesn't always mean that the strongest signal will be the one that gets through - wires do weird things. For a start, change the aerial lead - cheap, easy and if it was duff, an easy fix. If the problem remains, then you need to look further up the signal path.
But if your getting a very high signal strength (which is why a postcode is so useful), then the BBC channels might be the ones to go crazy - they are likely to be the strongest. So check out the page called 'too much of a good thing'.
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jb3811:30 PM
Brian Springthorpe: Reception in many parts of the UK is presently being affected by a series of high pressure zones sweeping across the country, the effects of said pressure being most likely reason for the reception problems referred to, unfortunately nothing can be done to help rectify the problem except to wait until the situation improves.
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Sunday, 12 November 2017
MikeB: poor freeview receipting for the last 3-4 from llanddona late morning to around 4-5pm any engineering works going on? Can't see anything when I check.
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MikeP
5:19 PM
5:19 PM
Rhian Williams:
I presume you mean 'poor reception'. To be able to offer any advice we need a full post code so that we can examine the reception conditions at your location.
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Monday, 18 December 2017
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Chris10:18 AM
Postcode LL777UR, last couple of days CCTV on channel 260 (a data channel) is only giving a test card with the number 15048 and the time. Is the CCTV channel no longer being broadcast from Llandona or is there a problem with the transmission?
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Sunday, 7 January 2018
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william perry4:11 PM
Why is PBS not available from Llandonna. Their website says it should be available as Channel 94.
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StevensOnln14:24 PM
william perry: PBS America is broadcast on the COM8 multiplex which is not broadcast from Llanddona. COM8 (along with COM7) is a temporary service which is broadcast from 30 main transmitters covering around 75% of UK households and will close some time between 2020 and 2022.
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