Full Freeview on the Pontypool (Torfaen, Wales) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Pontypool (Torfaen, Wales) transmitter which serves 19,000 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 Pontypool (Torfaen, Wales) mast?
Pontypool transmitter - Pontypool 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 Pontypool (Torfaen, 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 Pontypool 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 Pontypool (Torfaen, 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 Pontypool transmitter?
BBC Wales Today 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 2YQ, 25km southwest (214°)
to BBC Wales region - 206 masts.
ITV Cymru Wales 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 6XJ, 30km southwest (215°)
to ITV Wales region - 206 masts.
How will the Pontypool (Torfaen, Wales) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2010 | 2010-13 | 29 Jun 2019 | |||||
| A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | |||||
| C21 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
| C22 | -ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
| C23 | +BBCA | BBCA | |||||||
| C24 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
| C25 | -SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C26 | +D3+4 | D3+4 | |||||||
| C27 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | ||||||
| C28 | -ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
| C29 | +BBCB | BBCB | |||||||
| C31 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
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 3 Mar 10 and 31 Mar 10.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 250W | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 50W | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B* | (-11dB) 20W | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-14dB) 10W |
Local transmitter maps
PONTYPOOL Freeview PONTYPOOL DAB PONTYPOOL AM/FM Wenvoe TV region BBC Wales WalesWhich companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Wenvoe transmitter area
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Friday, 30 May 2014
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Pedr10:03 AM
Wayne: I have the same problem in Caerllion. All the multiplexers have perfect reception except HD.
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Sunday, 26 October 2014
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steve2:15 PM
Cwmbran
I am trying to locate madei in Cardiff. I can get made in Bristolon Channel8, but following your suggestion of manually retuning C51 ddoesn't find it.
I am on Pontypool transmitter, which Ithink is a sub- transmitter?
My postcode is np44 henllys, Cwmbran.c2
Thanks for looking.
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steve's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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KMJ,Derby5:35 PM
steve: Local TV for Cardiff is transmitted from Wenvoe on C51, local TV for Bristol from Mendip, also on C51. At your location you appear to have robust signals from Mendip but reception from Wenvoe according to the DUK predictions looks to be somewhat iffy. This suggests that if there is any signal for Made in Cardiff reaching your aerial it is being drowned out by the Made in Bristol signal..There is certainly no prediction for Made in Cardiff being possible, even with poor reception!
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Thursday, 23 August 2018
We regularly lose signal in the early afternoon on all freeview channels. 3 days this week have been affected for up to 3 hours. When it returns most channels are suddenly ok again. did a reset twice yesterday afternnon with ''no signals found''. At 5 o clock 147 channels found. What is going on?
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StevensOnln12:11 PM
Chris Roberts: You're most likely suffering from electrical interference. Resetting won't fix it and is the worst thing to do as you are just deleting all of your channels and searching for them again. You need to look for electrical items which are in use in your own home (or that of a near neighbour) at the times that you loose signal.
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Thursday, 1 November 2018
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Paul M8:48 PM
Hi, I have a question about sky dish size that I need. I live in pontypool so what size of dish do I require for Freesat sat reception the smaller the better but not to compromise 100% reception. Thanks in advance. P
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Monday, 25 May 2020
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Roger Morgan8:43 AM
Hi for the last week I have lost all or some of my channels this only happens late evening or at night, I have 2 aerials one for each of my downstairs and upstairs TVs and it affects both, daytime I have no problems
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Chris.SE2:45 PM
Roger Morgan:
The Pontypool relay transmitter has been listed for Planned Engineering the past week with "Possible service interruptions". That work we presume has been completed as it's not on this weeks list, but I don't think that's necessarily guaranteed based on recent experiences.
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Thursday, 20 January 2022
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Paul Clark1:31 PM
Transmitter engineering: is ITV1 on the Pontypool Transmitter
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StevensOnln12:36 PM
Paul Clark: ITV is broadcast from every Freeview transmitter. Pontypool carries the ITV Wales region.
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