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Freeview Light on the Pencader (Carmarthenshire, Wales) transmitter

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

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52.010,-4.258 or 52°0'35"N 4°15'30"W

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The symbol shows the location of the Pencader (Carmarthenshire, Wales) transmitter which serves 600 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 Pencader (Carmarthenshire, 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 Pencader 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	C30 (546.0MHz)	215m	DTG-	2W
	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)	215m	DTG-	2W
	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)	215m	DTG-	2W
	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 Pencader (Carmarthenshire, 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 Pencader transmitter?

BBC Wales Today 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 2YQ, 91km southeast (130°)
to BBC Wales region - 206 masts.

ITV Cymru Wales 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 6XJ, 91km southeast (133°)
to ITV Wales region - 206 masts.

How will the Pencader (Carmarthenshire, Wales) transmission frequencies change over time?

	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2009	2009-13	17 Oct 2018
	A K T	A K T	A K T	A K T	A K T
C23	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	BBCA
C26	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	D3+4
C29	C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves	BBCB
C30					BBCA
C31					D3+4
C33	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves
C37					BBCB

_{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 19 Aug 09 and 16 Sep 09.

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

Analogue 1-4	6W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-4.8dB) 2W

Local transmitter maps

Pencader Freeview Preseli TV region BBC Wales Wales

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

Sep 1962-Jul 1964	Wales (West and North) Television (Teledu Cymru)
Jul 1964-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. Pencader 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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Tuesday, 3 March 2020

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10:28 AM

- : Off the air due to essential from 2 Mar 12:17 until 2 Mar 12:37. . [BBC]

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Saturday, 21 March 2020

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4:34 AM

- : Off the air due to a fault from 20 Mar 16:50 until 20 Mar 21:49. . [BBC]

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Friday, 19 June 2020

Transmitter engineering

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7:28 AM

- : Off the air due to a fault from 17 Jun 13:11 until 17 Jun 13:22. . [BBC]

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Friday, 11 September 2020

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4:27 PM

- : Off the air due to essential from 10 Sep 13:17 until 10 Sep 15:36. . [BBC]

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Tuesday, 27 October 2020

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4:27 PM

- : Off the air due to a fault from 26 Oct 12:40 until 26 Oct 13:04. . [BBC]

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Friday, 9 July 2021

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11:46 AM

- Pencader transmitter: Possible effect on TV week commencing 05/07/2021 Screen may go black on some or all [DUK]

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Monday, 12 July 2021

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2:47 PM

- Pencader transmitter: Possible effect on TV week commencing 12/07/2021 Screen may go black on some or all [DUK]

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Sunday, 18 July 2021

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11:17 PM

- Pencader transmitter: Possible effect on TV week commencing 19/07/2021 Screen may go black on some or all [DUK]

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Monday, 26 July 2021

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9:09 AM

- Pencader transmitter: Possible effect on TV week commencing 26/07/2021 Screen may go black on some or all [DUK]

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Saturday, 27 November 2021

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9:09 AM

- : Off the air due to a fault from 27 Nov 07:24 until 27 Nov 07:26. . [BBC]

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