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Freeview Light on the Arfon (Gwynedd, Wales) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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53.019,-4.273 or 53°1'9"N 4°16'24"W

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The symbol shows the location of the Arfon (Gwynedd, Wales) transmitter which serves 17,000 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 Arfon (Gwynedd, 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 Arfon 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.

Mux	H/V	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	V max	C29+ (538.2MHz)	611m	DTG-	2,000W
	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	C31 (554.0MHz)	611m	DTG-	2,000W
	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	C37 (602.0MHz)	611m	DTG-	2,000W
	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 66 TBN UK,

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

The Arfon (Gwynedd, Wales) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, GREAT! action, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance, GREAT! romance mix, 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, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.

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 Arfon transmitter?

BBC Wales Today 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 2YQ, 184km south-southeast (158°)
to BBC Wales region - 206 masts.

ITV Cymru Wales 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 6XJ, 186km south-southeast (159°)
to ITV Wales region - 206 masts.

How will the Arfon (Gwynedd, Wales) transmission frequencies change over time?

	1962-80s	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2009	2009-13	14 Nov 2018
	VHF	B E T	B E T	B E T	B E K T	A K T
C10	ITV_waves
C29						BBCA
C31						D3+4
C37						BBCB
C41		ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	+BBCA
C44		BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	D3+4
C47		C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves	BBCB
C51_{tv_off}		BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves

_{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?

BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	2kW
Analogue 1-4	(-27dB) 4W

Local transmitter maps

Arfon Freeview Arfon DAB Llanddona TV region BBC Wales Wales

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

Jan 1958-Jul 1968	Television Wales and the West
Jul 1968-Feb 2004	Harlech Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014	ITV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

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Sunday, 11 August 2019

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5:08 AM

- : BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 15:04 on 09 Aug to 15:06 on 09 Aug. [BBC]

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Tuesday, 14 January 2020

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10:47 AM

- : Off the air due to a fault from 14 Jan 09:14. . [BBC]

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- : Off the air due to a fault from 14 Jan 09:14 until 14 Jan 15:43. . [BBC]

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Tuesday, 21 January 2020

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10:48 AM

- : Off the air due to essential from 21 Jan 10:02. . [BBC]

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- : Off the air due to essential from 21 Jan 10:02 until 21 Jan 13:28. . [BBC]

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Thursday, 12 March 2020

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- : Off the air due to a fault from 12 Mar 01:03 until 12 Mar 01:39. . [BBC]

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Wednesday, 22 April 2020

Transmitter engineering

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4:27 PM

- : Off the air due to a fault from 22 Apr 15:16 until 22 Apr 15:24. Off the air due to a fault from 22 Apr 13:16 until 22 Apr 13:18. . [BBC]

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Saturday, 6 June 2020

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- : Low due to a fault from 6 Jun 06:31. . [BBC]

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Sunday, 7 June 2020

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1:29 PM

- : Off the air due to a fault from 6 Jun 13:02 until 6 Jun 13:46. Low due to a fault from 6 Jun 06:31 until 6 Jun 13:02. . [BBC]

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Thursday, 11 June 2020

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- : Off the air due to essential from 10 Jun 11:01. . [BBC]

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