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The symbol shows the location of the Long Mountain (Powys, Wales) transmitter which serves 9,500 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 Long Mountain (Powys, 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 Long Mountain 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
C33- (569.8MHz)454mDTG-400W
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
C36 (594.0MHz)454mDTG-400W
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), 71 That's TV 3,

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C48 (690.0MHz)454mDTG-400W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 57 U&Eden, 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), 203 CBBC HD, 204 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 43 Freeview channels?

the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels
the effected channels

The Long Mountain (Powys, Wales) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! movies, GREAT! player, GREAT! romance, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, YAAAS!, Legend, PBS America, POP UP, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's Melody, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Yesterday, 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 Long Mountain transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Wales Today 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 2YQ, 128km south (186°)
to BBC Wales region - 206 masts.
regional news image
ITV Cymru Wales 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 6XJ, 132km south (187°)
to ITV Wales region - 206 masts.

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

1984-971997-981998-20092009-1331 Oct 2018
C/D EC/D EC/D EC/D E TK T
C33BBCA
C36D3+4
C48BBCB
C53tv_offD3+4
C54tv_offC4wavesC4wavesC4waves
C57tv_offBBCB
C58tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1waves
C60tv_off-BBCA
C61ITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves
C64BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves

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 1000W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-4dB) 400W

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

Radiation patterns withheld

Comments
Sunday, 2 January 2011
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Jackie
3:01 PM
Montgomery

How do we swich from long mountan 2 another transmitter with more channels from Montgomery SY15

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Wednesday, 5 January 2011
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Roger Callow
9:00 AM

Since Christmas there have been at least three occasions when we have switched on our television set only to see the message "no or scrambled signal".This seems to be happening more and more-can you explain?

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Thursday, 6 January 2011
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8:58 AM

Jackie: The channels you get depends on the direction your aerial points (and also the group of the aerial if it not the wideband type).

However, you are not predicted to be able to receive any additional channels this way. You may need to add Freesat to your system - see All about Freesat | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .

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Wednesday, 12 January 2011
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9:55 PM

Roger Callow:

These outages have been occurring ever since LM switched to DVB-T in 2009, but they've been getting more and more frequent. Both MUXes still get broadcast, but they carry no data or programmes. Sometimes one MUX goes blank, sometimes the other, and relatively infrequently both go blank. I've confirmed this on multiple pieces of equipment off two separate aerials.

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Thursday, 13 January 2011
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5:42 PM

Very interesting.Long Mountain gets its feed from parent transmitter,Blaenplwyf via a microwave link at Llangurig,just wondering whether this is cause of outages.Also are the dependant relays of LM,such as Llandinam affected by these breaks in service.Certainly not a good advert for digital advancement!

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Friday, 14 January 2011
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8:39 AM

aerialman: I can't really follow your logic there.

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6:47 PM

OK Briantist,lets put it this way,if the punters are watching TV,and then experiencing breaks in service,as they might do using LM Transmitter,then i imagine it is a very frustrating time,particularly in the middle of a favourite programme.As an analogue transmitter did LM experience the same problems? i think not.

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Sunday, 16 January 2011
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11:51 PM

In the years before DSO, LM did suffer from various outages, but typically only one of the channels would vanish at any one time -- the carrier would stop broadcasting. However, it was pretty infrequent, and nothing like as often as the outages post-DSO. As for whether or not it's unique to LM or whether any of the relays (or any of Blaenplwyf's other relays) suffer the same problem, I've no idea.

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Monday, 17 January 2011
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7:57 AM

aerialman: It doesn't really matter what you "think not", does it? What matter is how it is done now.

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6:09 PM

I agree,but have we identified a transmission problem concerning L Mountain?and if so how can the Broadcasters rectify this?This problem is persisting enough to annoy viewers,you only have to look at previous posts.

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6:15 PM

aerialman: If you think you have, report it using the BBC tool BBC - Reception problems .

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6:21 PM

Briantist, with due respect, we don't think we've identified a problem, we have identified one or more problems. Aerialman is right, LM was far more reliable pre-DSO than it has been post-DSO. As for reporting it to BBC Reception, yes, done that, made no difference. It must go to dev/null on their server.

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6:36 PM

Richard Jones: Well, that's the official reporting point. If you don't wish to use it, there is no other way.

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6:47 PM

It's not a case of not wishing to use it, I would use it if it made any difference, and have used it, but typically either they don't reply, or they do in their patronising manner, but the end result is the same: nothings gets actioned. It can't have, as we're still stuck with the problem over a year later. I also post about this to the uk.tech.broadcast newsgroup hoping that someone from Arqiva reads it. It's Arqiva who need a swift kick up the rear end.

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6:48 PM

Richard Jones: However you feel about it, it is the official reporting point.

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6:56 PM

Yes, that's broken or just gets ignored. As such, it may as well not exist. Meanwhile, outages still continue...

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7:18 PM

I imagine,that Arqiva are more than aware of the problem,and maybe even looking at a resolution,and have in the past had many a constuctive conversation with them over various issues, more than i could ever say for the old NGW regime!
I can only repeat,Briantist,if you were watching from this transmitter,with all the outages which are taking place to annoy the viewer,you might not have such 'a sweep it under the carpet attitude'

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7:18 PM

Richard Jones: Well, you claim they do. However, years of experience usually shows that such problems are rarely transmitter faults.

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7:20 PM

aerialman: I am not taking a "sweep it under the carpet" at all. I am simply suggesting that your reception problems are not caused by transmitter outages.

It is unlikely that the transmitter would fail and the automatic testing facilities would not pick it up.

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7:25 PM

As I have repeatedly written, what happens each time is that the MUXes carry on being broadcast, but carry no data. Each time it happens, the signal quality and signal strength never varies from when it is carry data, i.e. typically around 100% on both. I have confirmed this on five separate piece of Freeview equipment fed from two separate aerials, both of which have direct line of sight to LM, with nothing but fresh air between them and the mast.

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7:34 PM

Richard Jones: Do you have any proof of this? Are you claiming this happen to all three multiplexes?

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7:44 PM

I can only receive two MUXes as I don't have any Freeview HD kit. Proof? I suppose I'd have to dig out a video camera to film me going round each TV each time it happens...

Anybody would think that you think I'm making all this up. I really have got better things to do with my time than that, not to mention I have a much better imagination than to come up with something like this.

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7:51 PM

Richard Jones: I'm not saying you have "made it up", I am asking you what proof you have provide to the BBC. Please.

You SPECIFICALLY said that you KNEW the multiplex was being broadcast with no content. So, again, what is your proof of this?

I can't help if you don't have this actual information.

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8:42 PM

No video except black, and no audio. No EPG, no programme data for what's currently broadcast. Will that do? If I go into the boxes' settings, the quality and strength show up unchanged as 100%.

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10:46 PM

Richard Jones: Ah, you say "100%".

Having both signal quality and strength at 100% often indicates that you have too much signal.

If you have a booster or amplifier you might want to remove it.

If you don't you might want to try an attenuator to reduce the signal strength down.

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10:49 PM

I should've also mentioned that it also happens on two other Freeview receivers which are fed off a splitter off one of the antennas. Their signal strength is around 80% or so, and yes, same problem on those two. Same problem all equipment off both antennas, with varying signal strength and quality.

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10:53 PM

Richard Jones: The same receivers? When does this happen?

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11:20 PM

All five go off at the same time, and come back on the same time when the problem is resolved. I have 3 TVs, one fed off a Philips DVT-B box and sharing the same aerial with a Goodmans IDTV (the 80% signal device), and a Panasonic IDTV downstairs fed off a separate aerial. The problem usually lasts 5-10 mins or so, during which time I turn all three on, turn the volume up, tune to the same channel, and keep an eye and ear on them until the signal returns. It's fairly obvious when it does as I then hear each TV, and check I get a picture. I then turn off two I don't need, and carry on watching, usually on the old Ferguson while I do some PC time. As to times of day, I only notice it in the evenings and at night, as that's when I most typically watch TV, but it has happened during the day as well.

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Tuesday, 18 January 2011
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6:16 AM

Richard Jones: Did you say that the problem used to happen to you analogue services in the past?

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6:39 AM

I note that Airwave have, at Long Mountain, a macrocell TETRA transmitter (at 17dbW) in the 400MHz range.

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6:43 AM

(For the record there is also Orange GSM, 27.5dBW, 1800MHz; Vodaphone GSM, 23.6dBW, 900MHz; 3G 3, 24.46dbW, 2100MHz; TMobile GSM, 30dBW, 1800MHz, O2 GSM, 22dBW, 900MHz).

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6:52 PM

I know. Airwave uses a separate mast. I go walking around that area quite a lot.

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8:23 PM

"Did you say that the problem used to happen to you analogue services in the past?"

Sometimes, but very infrequently. What used to happen was that the carrier would drop -- I'd know this because my VCR for a start would complain about it. Typically only one channel would go, I think BBC2 was the worst. The other three would carry on transmitting as normal and with no degradation of picture or audio quality. Video dropped off BBC1 one evening, but audio carried on as normal as if nothing happened. Again, confirmed on multiple piece of equipment off separate aerials.

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8:42 PM

I believe that Richard Jones has successfully explained the ever present problem at LM,which is the possibility that the off air feed from Blaenplwyf via micro wave link at Llangurig to LM is not a constantly good feed.
I also saw at first hand the example given above on LM on analogue.
For me,rather than just dismissing this condition,somebody has to prove this otherwise.

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11:23 PM

Llangurig SHF: I've got something in the back of my mind trying to remind me about this, possibly a conversation I had with someone at Crown Castle some years ago. A dish not always in correct alignment? It was a long time ago, but something might pop back in my memory.

Touch wood, LM has been reliable since the major outage at the beginning of the year. That's not to say it hasn't happened again, but I haven't observed that it has.

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Wednesday, 19 January 2011
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Sam
1:09 AM

Long Mountain was regarded as a relay of Blaenplwyf until shortly before switchover of the Long Mountain Tx group when it became an 'Island Site' and was line fed via BT circuitry more than likely via Wenvoe as it's SIPSI transmitter. The regions switched at separate times so program feeds would of had to have been changed months in advance of switchover, of course Mux1 could have been taken off DSAT. Digital UK confirm that Long Mountain was attributed Line Fed and became a parent in it's own right.

"Before switchover, Long Mountain is technically a relay of Blaenplwyf but at switchover, it becomes line-fed"

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Thursday, 20 January 2011
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6:44 PM

I spoke too soon. PSB2 fell off air 18.41. PSB1 working fine. Digibox complains "No programme specific information," no Network or Provider showing up on Channel Information. Signal strength 25dB, 100%, Signal quality 0.00e+00 100%. Back on air 18:44.

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Friday, 4 February 2011
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3:11 PM

PSB1 and PSB2 fell off air c. 14:45, about 25 minutes ago, and LM is not even broadcasting them as a blank carrier. Whatever frequency they broadcast at is just static. My Philips box is complaining "No signal. Please check antenna/cable", and same fault off all devices off both antennas here.

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3:16 PM

HV mains fault in the area.

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john bayliss
7:45 PM

Digital TV an improvement on analogue?

Don't make me laugh.

If you are in an outlying area, which clearly Wales is considered to be, then what you get served up is a second class service for second class citizens.

Engineering works my arse.

The blank screens provided by Long Mountain since 2.48 today is only marginally worse than the paucity of choice they 'offer' when the damn thing is supposed to be working.

A plague on all their houses, and on all those in government who decided this was the way forward.

Forward?

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10:26 PM

Back on air c. 20:30. Arqiva confirmed it was caused by a HV cable failure to the site. Why the backup generators didn't function, I've no idea. FM radio lasted until c. 16:30 before all that went off air also.

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10:38 PM

I had to resort to using www.tvcatchup.com to watch the first half of the rugby tonight. Not good. I may as well not have bothered anyway...

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Saturday, 5 February 2011
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7:21 AM

john bayliss: It has nothing AT ALL to do with being digital, the transmitter had a serious fault. It would have been exactly the same with analogue.

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Sunday, 6 February 2011
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john bayliss
7:07 PM

Briantist, it has everything to do with being digital, instead of analogue. I could have tuned in to an analogue signal from elsewhere; but the digital signal is not strong enough to enable me to do that.

We were presented with a fait accompli, HAD to buy digital equipment at OUR EXPENSE: all for a system that does not provide us with the choice that is available elsewhere, when it is actually working.

That, pal, is why it has everything to do with digital.

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7:58 PM

john bayliss: If you wish to think it is a conspiracy then you are quite welcome to do so.

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11:28 PM

Friday's failure had nothing to do to with the method of transmission, but I don't recall such a long outage. I thought it was meant to be covered by backup generators? But this is a separate issue to the one of its unreliability post-DSO.

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Monday, 7 February 2011
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john bayliss
2:58 AM

A conspiracy, Briantist?

I don't believe Lee Harvey Oswald shot the transmitter.

But it is unequivocally the case that the government decided that digital TV was the (only) way forward; and it is also certainly the case that if I wanted to watch TV, post switchover, then I HAD to buy digital equipment.

If there is any part of that you think is inaccurate, do feel free to rip it to shreds.

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7:35 AM

john bayliss: Well, there is the tiny matter that the digital coverage areas match exactly the analogue ones.

If you had an analogue alternative, you now have an identical digital one.

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7:37 AM

Richard Jones: The main transmitters have full power backup systems, but on the relay transmitters, no additional power backup systems have been installed. If there wasn't a generator for analogue, there won't be one now.

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5:14 PM

Long Mountain's a main transmitter, not a relay.

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Jordy
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6:24 PM

Richard Jones - Long Mountain may be line fed and an 'island' site with dependents but for all organisational purposes it is still a relay of Blaenplwyf much the same as Torosay is organisationally speaking a dependant of Blackhill...

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Mark A.
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7:53 PM
Haywards Heath

Richard Jones
I believe all main transmitters aerials are horizontal polarization and relays are vertical polarization.
Long Mountain is still listed as a vertical polarization.
If they switched polarization then everyone would have to adjust their aerial to get a proper signal.

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Briantist
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7:59 PM

Mark A.: Also this transmitter only has three multiplexes and is not one of the 81 main Freeview transmitters.

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Jordy
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8:29 PM

Mark A - That isn't entirely correct some high power relays use HP, Cambret Hill being a good example...

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Wednesday, 9 February 2011
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Tom Williams
10:00 AM
Oswestry

At the risk of hijacking this thread, (Should I start a new one? please advise)
I live in Oswestry, slightly North of the town and approx 500ft ASL. At present I receive good analogue from the Wrekin TX on an old aerial that's been here long before I moved in.
As a welsh speaking Welshman I would very much like to receive BBC Wales etc and have been contemplating buyin a Hi gain aerial to pick up the Long Mountain digital transmissions but reading the above comments I'm thinking that perhaps I'm wasting my time planning in this direction.
Maybe I should wait until the Wrekin fires up to provide me with a decent "English" transmission and buy a suitable new Aerial for that to guarantee good digital reception and try and get the Welsh progs by satellite.
Advice would be appreciated.
Regards
Tom Williams

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Mark Aberfan Aerials
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3:58 PM

Hi Tom,

Your best best bet is Freesat, in the install menu type in a welsh postcode & you will receive bbc1 wales / bbc2 wales / itv1 wales / s4c in their primary positions on the EPG.
A basic sd freesat install can cost as little as £110 which could well be cheaper than a aerial installation in this case.

Mark Aberfan Aerials

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5:11 PM

Tom,Mark is correct.But if you were looking at an Aerial only install,just to feed to your main outlet.May i say wait until after Sept 28th 2011.Combine two Aerials.Wideband Aerial directed at Wrekin and High Gain Group CD Aerial directed at Long Mountain,on the same mast,into the appropriate Diplexor,connected to your downlead.Digital signals in your area are strong enough to combine without amplification when both transmitters settle on final powers and frequecies/channel numbers,after the above date.I dare say that will cost more than £110.

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5:14 PM

Just to add to the above,your welsh services are likely to be assigned to the 800's,on your freeview TV/set top box.

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Thursday, 10 February 2011
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Tom Williams
7:16 AM

Thanks for the responses, I've realized that the Breidden is between our location in Oswestry and Long Mountain. In fact Rodneys Pillar is directly South of us, so we are unlikely to get a decent signal from Long Mountain.I think that Freesat is the way to go for the Welsh programmes.
Many thanks
Tom Williams.

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Wednesday, 16 March 2011
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Aerialman
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4:45 PM

Long Mountain,This surely must take the award for the UK's most unreliable TV transmitter.

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Thursday, 17 March 2011
Briantist
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7:54 AM

Aerialman: Being off air for 12 minutes?

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6:55 PM
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Aerialman
This transmitter has had digital Freeview since 2009.
Some won't get it until 2013.
I'm sure there are a few people who think their transmitter is worse.

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Friday, 18 March 2011
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2:18 PM

very true,point taken

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Sunday, 20 March 2011
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8:45 PM

@Briantist "Aerialman: Being off air for 12 minutes?"

For how often it *does* go off-air. While it's been broadcasting DVB-T since 2009, there's little point in it doing so if it can't be relied on not to stop broadcasting at a crucial point in the middle of a drama, for example, or during any other programme that other people consider to be important to them.

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Monday, 21 March 2011
Richard Jones
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12:38 PM

PSB1 BBCA MUX fell off air twice just now - 12:24 to 12:25, then 12:29 to 12:33. Unlike most of the previous outages, the MUX stopped being broadcast. On both occasions PSB2 carried on broadcasting perfectly fine.

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Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Briantist
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6:42 AM

Richard Jones: Yes, this is a fault. The HD multiplex stayed on air too.

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Saturday, 30 April 2011
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Holsgrove
9:13 AM
Welshpool

My aerial is in the loft. This is not ideal but i normally have good reception from my local transmitter (Long Mountain). Today I can't receive any picture.

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Wednesday, 4 May 2011
Briantist
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7:59 AM

Holsgrove: I think you have answered your own question.

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Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Richard Jones
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3:21 PM

Fell off air again on the BBC multiplex 15:09. ITV carrying on as normal. Been informed it's the BT fibre link to the site that's fallen over. Also taken out Ebbw Vale!

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3:22 PM

Back on 15:22.

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Briantist
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3:32 PM

Richard Jones: Which reminds me, I need to do the "which transmitter feeds which transmitter" table...

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Thursday, 30 June 2011
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gareth
3:21 PM

considering mid wales was one of the 1st to make the enforced switchover, when will all the channel available on freeview be made available in mid wales

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Mike Dimmick
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7:36 PM

Gareth: When the broadcasters of the multiplexes for those channels decide that it's economic to do so. They were offered the opportunity to broadcast from more sites than they did before switchover, and they turned it down on cost grounds.

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Sunday, 23 October 2011
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lloyd
5:40 PM

we have no bbc channels since 19th oct 2011, we recieve from Long Mountain. when will we get normal service?

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Monday, 24 October 2011
Thursday, 27 October 2011
Richard W. Jones
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5:48 PM
Welshpool

@lloyd Sounds like you didn't carry out the retune on the 19th. We all had plenty of warning about it since about a month before it took place. Retune your TV or Freeview box and they'll magically reappear.

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Tuesday, 10 January 2012
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Jane
12:10 AM

Can we campaign to get all the Freeview channels transmitted in mid Wales? Are we considered to be second-class citizens?

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Dave Lindsay
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12:20 AM

Jane: The "missing" Freeview channels operate on a commercial basis which means that they broadcast from transmission sites where it suits them.

See here for a further explanation:

Will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice

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Tuesday, 24 January 2012
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Aileen
12:51 PM

Why do we have to pay the same TV license fee for a transmitter that it of poorer quality then other parts of the UK? We have significantly less channels and it says on here it is transmitting on below average strength. I am enquiring to see if it will be updated so we can have the same level of service as others get.

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1:03 PM

Aileen: The channels you get are the Public Service Broadcaster (PSB) ones and they include the BBC which is the recipient of the licence fee.

The other channels (those which don't broadcast from Long Mountain) operate on a commercial basis and choose which transmitter sites to broadcast from. They were invited to transmit from other sites and declined.

There is around 8% of the population that only get the PSBs. Roughly 90% of the population can get all channels. The cost to the commercial channels to cover that 8% will roughly double the cost of transmission.

The commercials show adverts and get revenue from the advertisers. The objective is the maximisation of profit whereas the PSBs are there to provide a universal service.

See here for a fuller explanation:

Will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice

In some cases, people on these transmitters that only carry the PSBs might be able to receive from another station that does, although this will require another aerial.

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Sunday, 7 December 2014
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Ruth Jonrd
11:50 PM

For the past two weeks we have had no ITV OR CHANNEL 4 etc , we have intermittent BBC channels ,
This is on Freeview Digital service.

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Wednesday, 28 January 2015
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Mr J Holsgrove
12:44 PM

Is the Long Mountain transmitter out of service ? My digibox was receiving normally circa 0800 but when I tried late morning there was a 'No Signal' message..

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jb38
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1:16 PM

Mr J Holsgrove: The answer is yes, down to engineering work taking place at the station during this week, listed on the engineering page as "possible service interruptions".

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Wednesday, 1 November 2017
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Andrew Close
9:06 AM

No freeview signal for over 12 hours now. Other locals with the same. Churchstoke / Bishops Castle area..
What is the issue?

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Wednesday, 31 October 2018
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Barbara
5:39 PM
Welshpool

SY21 7EE no transmission,why?

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aerialman
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10:52 PM

HI Barbara
You need to retune your tv today as Long Mountain transmitting channel numbers have changed
because of 700Mhz clearance.


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Your comment please!
Please post a question, answer or commentIf you have Freeview reception problems before posting a question your must first do this Freeview reset procedure then see: Freeview reception has changed, Single frequency interference, and Freeview intermittent interference.

If you have no satellite signal, see Sky Digibox says 'No Signal' or 'Technical fault'

If you have other problems, please provide a full (not partial) postcode (or preferably enter it in box at the top right) and indicate where if aerial is on the roof, in the loft or elsewhere.

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