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Freeview Light on the Rhymney (Caerphilly, Wales) transmitter

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

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51.730,-3.265 or 51°43'47"N 3°15'56"W

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The symbol shows the location of the Rhymney (Caerphilly, Wales) transmitter which serves 6,100 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 Rhymney (Caerphilly, 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 Rhymney 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	C40 (626.0MHz)	450m	DTG-	30W
	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, 250 BBC Red Button, plus 13 others
PSB2 D3+4	V max	C43 (650.0MHz)	450m	DTG-	30W
	5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Wales),
PSB3 BBCB	V max	C46 (674.0MHz)	450m	DTG-	30W
	56 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Wales, 102 BBC Two HD (England), 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 43 Freeview channels?

The Rhymney (Caerphilly, Wales) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Blaze, Blaze +1, CBS Reality, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, YAAAS!, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, E4 Extra, Film4 +1, Food Network, GB News, GREAT! movies, GREAT! movies action, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, pick, Pop Player, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky News, Smithsonian Channel, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, That's TV (UK), Together TV, 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 Rhymney transmitter?

BBC Wales Today 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 2YQ, 26km south (175°)
to BBC Wales region - 206 masts.

ITV Cymru Wales 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 6XJ, 30km south (182°)
to ITV Wales region - 206 masts.

How will the Rhymney (Caerphilly, Wales) transmission frequencies change over time?

	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2010	2010-13	15 May 2019
	C/D E	C/D E	C/D E	C/D E T	B E K T
C40					BBCA
C43					D3+4
C46					BBCB
C53_{tv_off}	C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves	BBCB
C57_{tv_off}	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	D3+4
C60_{tv_off}	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	BBCA
C63	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 3 Mar 10 and 31 Mar 10.

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

Analogue 1-4	150W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-7dB) 30W

Local transmitter maps

Rhymney Freeview Rhymney DAB Wenvoe TV region BBC Wales Wales

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Wenvoe 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. Rhymney 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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Wednesday, 25 September 2019

Transmitter engineering

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5:08 AM

- : BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 08:26 to 08:31 yesterday, BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 03:08 yesterday to 03:12 yesterday. [BBC]

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Thursday, 26 September 2019

Transmitter engineering

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5:08 AM

- : BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 08:26 on 24 Sep to 08:31 on 24 Sep, BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 03:08 on 24 Sep to 03:12 on 24 Sep. [BBC]

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Saturday, 28 September 2019

Transmitter engineering

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11:08 PM

- : BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 03:08 on 24 Sep to 03:12 on 24 Sep, BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 08:26 on 24 Sep to 08:31 on 24 Sep. [BBC]

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Friday, 14 February 2020

Transmitter engineering

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10:28 PM

- : Off the air due to a fault from 14 Feb 13:24 until 14 Feb 19:44. . FM: Off the air due to a fault from 14 Feb 13:24 until 14 Feb 19:44. . [BBC]

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Saturday, 15 February 2020

Transmitter engineering

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7:28 AM

- : Off the air due to a fault from 14 Feb 13:24 until 14 Feb 19:44. . [BBC]

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Friday, 21 February 2020

Transmitter engineering

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4:34 AM

- : Off the air due to a fault from 14 Feb 13:24 until 14 Feb 19:44. . FM: Off the air due to a fault 15:40 until 20 Feb 15:58. . [BBC]

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Tuesday, 25 February 2020

Transmitter engineering

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7:28 PM

- : Off the air due to essential from 25 Feb 12:35 until 25 Feb 12:58. . [BBC]

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Thursday, 27 February 2020

Transmitter engineering

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1:29 PM

- : Off the air due to essential from 25 Feb 12:35 until 25 Feb 12:58. . FM: Off the air due to a fault 15:40 until 20 Feb 15:58. . [BBC]

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Tuesday, 9 June 2020

Transmitter engineering

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6:10 PM

- : Off the air due to a fault from 5 Jul 05:27. . [BBC]

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Wednesday, 17 June 2020

Transmitter engineering

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7:28 AM

- : Off the air due to a fault from 16 Jun 17:33 until 16 Jun 17:37. . [BBC]

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