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The symbol shows the location of the Abertridwr (Caerphilly, Wales) transmitter which serves 2,800 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 Abertridwr (Caerphilly, Wales) transmitter.

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name
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Which Freeview channels does the Abertridwr 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
C40 (626.0MHz)299mDTG-10W
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
C43 (650.0MHz)299mDTG-10W
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
C46 (674.0MHz)299mDTG-10W
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
the effected channels
the effected channels

The Abertridwr (Caerphilly, 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 Abertridwr transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Wales Today 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 2YQ, 11km south-southeast (166°)
to BBC Wales region - 206 masts.
regional news image
ITV Cymru Wales 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 6XJ, 14km south (183°)
to ITV Wales region - 206 masts.

How will the Abertridwr (Caerphilly, Wales) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20102010-1319 Jun 2019
C/D EC/D EC/D EC/D E TB E K T
C40BBCA
C43D3+4
C46BBCB
C53tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4wavesBBCB
C57tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesD3+4
C60tv_offITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesBBCA
C63BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves

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 3 Mar 10 and 31 Mar 10.

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

Analogue 1-4 50W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 10W

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. Abertridwr 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
Tuesday, 20 September 2016
Transmitter engineering
sentiment_very_satisfiedOwner

10:09 AM

ABERTRIDWR transmitter - Possible service interruptions [DUK]

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Sunday, 1 November 2020
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Ted
8:52 PM

Why isn't ITV show on the Abertridwr list?

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Chris.SE
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11:25 PM

Ted:

There's a bug somewhere in the software. I've noticed other transmitter pages sometimes have had stuff missing. Only the site owner can correct these things and he appears to be too busy at present.

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Chris.SE's 4,101 posts GB flag
Monday, 2 November 2020
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Ted
11:37 AM

Chris.SE: Thanks for the reply. I suspected something like that as I checked another booster and it is the same.

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Chris.SE
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1:41 PM

Ted:

My apologies, I think there's a misunderstanding here. When you said "list" I assumed you meant the channels listed at the top of this page which has omissions. I did not interpret your post as meaning you had no signal for ITV.

I don't know if you have any other programmes missing such as Channel4 or Five or ITV2 etc as these are on the same multiplex as ITV. If those channels are present, it's nothing to do with signal and may be just your set has got its memory confused and the ITV channel has not been stored correctly.
The transmitter is not listed for Planned Engineering, so a transmitter fault is least likely.

Whichever, the best solution is normally to unplug the aerial and carry out an automatic retune which should clear all previous tuning as nothing should be found. Then plug the aerial back in and ideally carry out a manual retune for the UHF Channels for your transmitter which are C40 for BBCA/PSB1, C43 for D3&4/PSB2 and lastly C46 for BBCB HD/PSB3 if your set has an HD/T2 tuner.
If you can't do a manual tune, just repeat the automatic one.

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