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Freeview Light on the Llandinam (Powys, Wales) transmitter

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

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52.479,-3.400 or 52°28'44"N 3°24'1"W

SY16 4JU

The symbol shows the location of the Llandinam (Powys, Wales) transmitter which serves 7,400 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 Llandinam (Powys, Wales) mast?

Llandinam transmitter - Llandinam transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 04/12/2023 Screen may go black on some or all channels

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name

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Which Freeview channels does the Llandinam 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	C41+ (634.2MHz)	497m	DTG-	50W
	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	C47 (682.0MHz)	497m	DTG-	50W
	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	C44 (658.0MHz)	497m	DTG-	50W
	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 Llandinam (Powys, 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! christmas, GREAT! movies extra, GREAT! movies, 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 Christmas, 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 Llandinam transmitter?

BBC Wales Today 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 2YQ, 110km south (174°)
to BBC Wales region - 206 masts.

ITV Cymru Wales 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 6XJ, 113km south (176°)
to ITV Wales region - 206 masts.

How will the Llandinam (Powys, Wales) transmission frequencies change over time?

	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2009	2009-13	31 Dec 2018-
	B E T	B E T	B E T	B E K T	B E K T
C41	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	+BBCA	BBCA
C44	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBCB	BBCB
C47	C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves	D3+4	D3+4
C51_{tv_off}	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_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 4 Nov 09 and 3 Dec 09.

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

Analogue 1-4	250W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-7dB) 50W

Local transmitter maps

Llandinam Freeview Llandinam DAB Llandinam AM/FM Long Mountain TV region BBC Wales Wales

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Long Mountain 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. Llandinam 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.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

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Friday, 13 April 2018

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6:07 AM

- : BBC Digital TV Off Air; related from 12:15 on 11 Apr to 14:03 on 11 Apr, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 12:15 on 11 Apr to 14:04 on 11 Apr. [BBC]

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Sunday, 22 April 2018

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- : BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 22:47 yesterday to 22:51 yesterday. [BBC]

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Monday, 23 April 2018

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6:07 AM

- : BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 22:47 on 21 Apr to 22:51 on 21 Apr. [BBC]

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Friday, 1 June 2018

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- : BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 14:30 today to 14:45 today. [BBC]

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Saturday, 2 June 2018

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- : BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 14:30 yesterday to 14:45 yesterday. [BBC]

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Sunday, 3 June 2018

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6:05 AM

- : BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 14:30 on 01 Jun to 14:45 on 01 Jun. [BBC]

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Friday, 13 July 2018

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3:03 PM

- : BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 13:00 today to 13:05 today. [BBC]

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Saturday, 14 July 2018

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6:03 AM

- : BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 13:00 yesterday to 13:05 yesterday. [BBC]

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Sunday, 15 July 2018

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6:02 AM

- : BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 13:00 on 13 Jul to 13:05 on 13 Jul. [BBC]

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Friday, 10 August 2018

Transmitter engineering

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6:07 PM

- : BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 01:08 today to 01:10 today, BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 01:21 today to 01:22 today, BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 01:41 today to 01:43 today. [BBC]

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