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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Carmel (Carmarthenshire, Wales) mast?
Carmel transmitter - Carmel transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 18/11/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels 
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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 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 withheldSaturday, 27 July 2013
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madge5:01 PM
Llanelli
My arial is tuned to carmel, it is on the roof and I have bought a new TV but have very limited programmes. I do not get Dave or the new drama stations. Do I need a new arial as the one I have is about 20 years old but I have a good picture from it. I am in a spot which might be bad to tune to Swansea. I am SA15 1DY.
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Tuesday, 24 September 2013
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Pauline1:11 AM
Haven't been able to watch a single whole tv programme since this afternoon. Missed especially endings of programmes. Very frustrating.
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Nia9:57 AM
Pauline: Same problem in Llanelli. Unable to receive Freeview channels since yesterday.
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jason11:38 AM
Nia: I'm having problems in Llanelli, I'm pointing at the Kilvey transmiiter.
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Rosemarie Bradley12:06 PM
My problem is with the Carmel Transmitter been without Freeview TV for two days now. How long is this going to last, we need to know more information as to how long we are going to be without our entertainment.
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Tuesday, 15 October 2013
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Stuart Botevyle11:54 AM
Carmarthen
problems with itv3 5usa picture quality is poor.
chllange and 4seven are ok in the day but a night they get the same problem as the affected channels on the same list.
Signal strenth on c49 c54 c57 c58 are at 80% but the quality level is saying poor
I don't get this problem with other channels. This has been happing now for a few weeks.
Is this due to 4g or the work on the carmel transmiter.
I have a new loft areial with a split booster.
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Saturday, 18 January 2014
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G GUY2:15 PM
Ammanford
I have replaced my ASDA freeview box (Broken) with a "Bush BUJ10FVZS1, from Argos. As this is a replacement I cant get it to lock onto my chosen transmitter. I have swopped it with another set up but still wont settle to transmitter. Help!!!
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MikeB7:41 PM
G GUY: I can't find the Bush box on the Argos website, but I'm guessing it looks much the same as this; Freeview Digital Set Top Box | Twin Scart | Goodmans
I've got one of these (ours broke, and it was cheap..) - and it has no manual tuning. Thats not a problem, but for the fact that it will start at the lowest RF channel and work up. If you look at Digital UK's tradeview, you've got Cwmgors just 1km away on Ch24, Kilvey Hill on Ch23, and Preseli on Ch43. Carmel is on Ch60...
I know its a pain, it takes me ages to retune it.
And if you've two transmitters on a similar bearing, it will pick up the lowest first (and frankly, all the transmitters are a similarish direction, but Preseli is so close to Carmel). David Lindsay's solution is to pull out the aerial for the first 30% of the scan, and hopefully it should lock on. Once tuned, never touch it unless you really have to!
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G GUY7:44 PM
Ammanford
How do I manually tune my Bush BU10FVZS1 freeview box?
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G's: mapG's Freeview map terrainG's terrain plot wavesG's frequency data G's Freeview Detailed Coverage
G GUY: I can't answer your question.
However, what's the problem? If it's tuning to Cwmgors then, as MikeB says, pull the aerial out for the first 30% (or indeed 50%) so as to miss it out.
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