Full Freeview on the Carmel (Carmarthenshire, Wales) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Carmel (Carmarthenshire, Wales) transmitter which serves 72,000 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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Carmel (Carmarthenshire, Wales) transmitter._______
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 Carmel (Carmarthenshire, 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 Carmel 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 Carmel (Carmarthenshire, 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 Carmel transmitter?
BBC Wales Today 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 2YQ, 68km east-southeast (122°)
to BBC Wales region - 206 masts.
ITV Cymru Wales 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 6XJ, 68km southeast (127°)
to ITV Wales region - 206 masts.
Are there any self-help relays?
| Abergorlech | Active deflector | Dyfed | 5 homes |
| Cwmere | Active deflector | 11 km NE Aberystwyth | 10 homes |
How will the Carmel (Carmarthenshire, Wales) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 17 Jul 2019 | |||
| C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | C/D E T | W T | |||
| C23 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C26 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C29 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C33 | SDN | ||||||||
| C36 | ArqA | ||||||||
| C48 | ArqB | ||||||||
| C49tv_off | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C53tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||
| C54tv_off | SDN | SDN | SDN | ||||||
| C55tv_off | _local | _local | _local | _local | |||||
| C57tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||
| C58tv_off | ArqA | ArqA | ArqA | ||||||
| C60tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -BBCA | -BBCA | ||||
| C61 | ArqB | ||||||||
| 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 26 Aug 09 and 23 Sep 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 A* | (-13dB) 5kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux B* | (-16dB) 2.5kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-20dB) 1000W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Carmel transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldWednesday, 17 July 2019
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nobody1:55 PM
Paul Madden:
A Retune event for Carmel was scheduled for today 17 July.
A retune of your receiver may be required to restore service.
See
Coverage Checker - Detailed View
for details.
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Ry3:24 PM
I have lost many channels today and I have retuned my telly still no joy.
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StevensOnln13:36 PM
Alan Landry, Paul Madden & Ry: Frequency changes have taken place at Carmel today, resulting in many viewers now needing wideband aerials for reception of all multiplexes. If retuning does not restore your channels, you should contact the Freeview Advice Line (see link below) who can arrange for a replacement wideband aerial to be fitted, free of charge if you don't have satellite or cable.
Important changes to Freeview TV signals | Freeview
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MikeP
9:00 PM
9:00 PM
Richard:
You need to retune as there has been engineering woirk at Carmel today. See the posts above yours.
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Hi,
I maintain a linux DVB media server in our large school, previously before the engineering work on the 17th July it received all channels without any bother at all and all having a strong signal
Since the engineering work I have managed to get all the muxs working except channel 48 (690Mhz)
it's completely dead here, this has been confirmed by an elderly neighbour who lives nearby the school, who asked me to retune his 3 tv's, all of his (modern) TV's cannot get channel 48 (690Mhz) even after a full hard reset
COM6
ArqB H -3dB C48 (690.0MHz) 411m DTG-8
We have the highest antenna around here it's on top of a 3 storey secondary school unfettered line of sight to Carmel Transmitter and about 3 times higher than an average house, but it's totally dead on 690Mhz, it's also a wide band antenna set for horizontal polarisation
it goes down to a very expensive distribution amplifier and a Johansson 6600 profiler, the clusters have been set
to allow through the appropriate muxes
I've even done a low level scan of the entire frequency range from uhf 21 to the top
it's definitely dead as dodo on 690mhz
I was thinking it was a hardware problem with our media server, but once I noticed modern TV's in a nearby estate wouldn't tune 690Mhz either is it conceivable they've messed something up ?
any ideas ?
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Chris.SE11:23 PM
Alan Landry: & others:
It's possible COM6 is still off air - there was a suggestion earlier (around mid-day) that the whole transmitter was still off-air at that time.
If you have had no joy by the morning, I suggest you ring the Freeview Advice Line free on 0808 100 0288 and ask them what is going on at Carmel. If they don't know ask them to find out from Arqiva! If they still give BS ask to speak to a manager.
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Thursday, 18 July 2019
MikeP
9:35 AM
9:35 AM
Derek Brabrook:
We can only offer suggestions if you give a full poist code so that we can examine the expected reception at your location and also determine which of the over 1100 transmitters covers that area.
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Chris.SE1:11 PM
Derek Brabrook:
I take it that COM6 is back on air now. I had meant to address my previous post here to you, apologies.
MikeP:
I think you misread his post. He's using Carmel & has line of sight.
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