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51.682,-3.548 or 51°40'56"N 3°32'52"W

CF42 5NN

4G at 800MHz (at800) Freeview reception issues

Tests now show that SOME households that use masthead amplifiers (and some communal aerial systems) AND are in poor signal areas AND that are very close to a 4G phone mast MAY have their Freeview service disturbed: C59: BBCA
See Expecting 4G interference? Tests now show that you have a one in 300 chance.

This transmitter has no current reported problems

The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Tynewydd (Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales) transmitter. Click to recheck

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The symbol shows the location of the Tynewydd (Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales) transmitter which serves 1,600 homes.

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Wenvoe region

BBC Wales

Wales

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

What do the colours on the map mean?

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.

List by multiplex|List by channel number|List by channel name|See terrain plot

Which Freeview channels does the Tynewydd 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	Aerial position	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	vertical max	C59 (778.0MHz)	275m	64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	4W
	1 BBC One Wales, 2 BBC Two Wales, 7 BBC Three, 9 BBC Four, 70 CBBC Channel, 71 CBeebies, 80 BBC News, 81 BBC Parliament, 301 BBC Red Button 1, plus 14 others
PSB2 D3+4	vertical max	C50 (706.0MHz)	275m	64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	4W
	3 ITV (Wales), 4 S4C, 5 Channel 5 Part Network ads, 6 ITV 2, 8 Channel 4 South ads, 13 Channel 4+1 South ads, 14 More 4, 33 ITV +1 (Wales),
PSB3 BBCB	vertical max	C55 (746.0MHz)	275m	256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4	4W
	101 BBC One HD Wales, 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 ITV HD (ITV Central West), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 303 BBC Red Button HD, plus 1 others 232 The Space,

Are you trying to watch these 27 Freeview channels?

The Tynewydd (Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4Music, 4seven, 5*, 5USA, Al Jazeera English, BBC Red Button 2, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, Community Channel, Dave, Dave ja vu, E4+1, Film 4, Food Network, ITV 2 +1, ITV 3, ITV 4, Movie Mix, PICK TV, Quest, Really, RT English , Sky News, The Zone, VIVA, Yesterday.

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 Tynewydd transmitter?

BBC Wales Today 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 2YQ, 30km southeast
to BBC Wales region - 206 masts.

ITV Cymru Wales 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 6XJ, 31km southeast
to ITV Wales region - 206 masts.

How will the Tynewydd (Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales) transmission frequencies change over time?

	years	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2010	2010-13	13/3/13-	2013-18
	aerial group	C/D E	C/D E	C/D E	C/D E	C/D E	C/D E
700	C50					D3+4	D3+4
	C55	BBC1	BBC1	BBC1	BBCB	BBCB	BBCB
	C59	ITV	ITV	ITV	BBCA	BBCA	BBCA
800	C62	BBC2	BBC2	BBC2	D3+4
	C65	C4	C4	C4

orange background for multiplexes names more

green background for transmission frequencies

lilac background for power levels in watts

800MHz band: 4G mobile to start in 2013

700MHz band: possible 4G in 2019 more

600MHz band: new or moved digital TV services more

Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W
Italics for analogue, digital switchover was Wednesdays 3rd March and 31st March 2010.

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

Analogue 1-4	20W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-7dB) 4W

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. Tynewydd 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.

Your comments: most recent posts are at the bottom

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M I Middlehurst
Monday 30 April 2007 1:26PM

I am Utterly disgusted that after all these years being limited to just 3 English speaking and one Welsh channel, when we change to digital things are not going to improve - why do we have to pay the same license fee as those who have/will have 50 channels available?! Again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yet again we will be the forgotten ones at the top of the Rhondda!
I AM DISGUSTED

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Briantist
Monday 30 April 2007 2:40PM

M I Middlehurst: you will be able to recieve all the channels your licence fee pays for. You are also welcome to use Freesat.

37,271 posts platinum

Transmitter engineering
Thursday 2 September 2010 5:10PM

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