Freeview Light on the Waunfawr (Gwynedd, Wales) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Waunfawr (Gwynedd, Wales) transmitter which serves less than 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.
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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.
DTG-3 64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-6 256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)




The Waunfawr (Gwynedd, Wales) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4Music, 4seven, 5SELECT, 5STAR, 5USA, Aljazeera English, BBC Four HD, BBC News HD, Blaze, Blaze +1, CBeebies HD, CBS Drama, CBS Justice, CBS Reality, Together TV +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama, E4 +1, Film4 +1, Food Network, Forces TV, FreeSports, HGTV, Horror Channel, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, More4 +1, NOW 80s, Paramount Network, PBS America +1, pick, Quest +1, Quest Red, Quest Red +1, Really, RT HD, Sky Arts, Sky News, Smithsonian Channel, Sony Movies Action, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, Together TV, 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 Freeview channels does the Waunfawr 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 | C25 (506.0MHz) | 234m | DTG-3 | 10W |
1 BBC One (SD) Wales, 2 BBC Two Wales, 9 BBC Four, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, 601 BBC Red Button, plus 13 others | |||||
PSB2 D3+4 | V max | C28 (530.0MHz) | 234m | DTG-3 | 10W |
5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 24 ITV4, 33 ITV +1 (Wales), | |||||
PSB3 BBCB | V max | C22 (482.0MHz) | 234m | DTG-6 | 10W |
74 Shopping Quarter , 101 BBC One HD Wales, 102 BBC Two HD (England), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 204 CBBC HD, plus 1 others |
DTG-6 256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Are you trying to watch these 51 Freeview channels?
The Waunfawr (Gwynedd, Wales) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4Music, 4seven, 5SELECT, 5STAR, 5USA, Aljazeera English, BBC Four HD, BBC News HD, Blaze, Blaze +1, CBeebies HD, CBS Drama, CBS Justice, CBS Reality, Together TV +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama, E4 +1, Film4 +1, Food Network, Forces TV, FreeSports, HGTV, Horror Channel, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, More4 +1, NOW 80s, Paramount Network, PBS America +1, pick, Quest +1, Quest Red, Quest Red +1, Really, RT HD, Sky Arts, Sky News, Smithsonian Channel, Sony Movies Action, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, Together TV, 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 Waunfawr transmitter?

BBC Wales Today 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 2YQ, 192km south-southeast (161°)
to BBC Wales region - 206 masts.

ITV Cymru Wales 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 6XJ, 195km south-southeast (162°)
to ITV Wales region - 206 masts.
How will the Waunfawr (Gwynedd, Wales) transmission frequencies change over time?
1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 14 Nov 2018 | |||||
A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | |||||
C22 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
C25 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
C28 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
C32 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves |
tv_off Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) after November 2020 - 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 21 Oct 09 and 18 Nov 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-4 | 26W | |
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-4.1dB) 10W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Llanddona transmitter area
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Friday, 2 October 2020
Transmitter engineering
7:28 AM
7:28 AM
WAUNFAWR transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to essential engineering from 30 Sep 14:04 until 30 Sep 15:04. . [BBC]
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Wednesday, 28 October 2020
Transmitter engineering
7:27 AM
7:27 AM
WAUNFAWR transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to essential engineering from 27 Oct 11:16 until 27 Oct 11:42. Off the air due to essential engineering from 27 Oct 10:56 until 27 Oct 11:08. . [BBC]
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Monday, 9 November 2020
Transmitter engineering
10:27 PM
10:27 PM
WAUNFAWR transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to essential engineering from 9 Nov 09:00 until 9 Nov 14:24. . [BBC]
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Tuesday, 2 March 2021
Transmitter engineering
7:38 PM
7:38 PM
WAUNFAWR transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to a fault from 2 Mar 11:05 until 2 Mar 11:13. . [BBC]
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Wednesday, 3 March 2021
Transmitter engineering
10:40 AM
10:40 AM
WAUNFAWR transmitter - Freeview: Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 3 Mar 04:26 until 3 Mar 04:33. Off the air due to a fault from 2 Mar 11:05 until 2 Mar 11:13. . [BBC]
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Sunday, 7 March 2021
Transmitter engineering
4:40 PM
4:40 PM
WAUNFAWR transmitter - Freeview: Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 3 Mar 04:26 until 3 Mar 04:33. . [BBC]
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