Freeview Light on the Garth Hill (Powys, Wales) transmitter
Brian Butterworth first published this on - UK Free TV
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The symbol shows the location of the Garth Hill (Powys, Wales) transmitter which serves 1,400 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 Garth Hill (Powys, Wales) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Garth Hill (Powys, Wales) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, 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, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.
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 Garth Hill 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 | H max V -1.7dB | C53 (730.0MHz) | 372m | DTG- | 7W 5W |
1 BBC One (SD) West Midlands, 2 BBC Two England, 9 BBC Four, 23 BBC Three, 201 CBBC, 202 CBeebies, 231 BBC News, 232 BBC Parliament, plus 19 others | |||||
PSB2 D3+4 | H max V -1.7dB | C60 (786.0MHz) | 372m | DTG- | 7W 5W |
3 ITV 1 (SD) (Central (West micro region)), 4 Channel 4 (SD) Midlands ads, 5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 Midlands ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Central west), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
PSB3 BBCB | H max V -1.7dB | C57 (762.0MHz) | 372m | DTG- | 7W 5W |
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD West Midlands, 102 BBC Two HD England, 103 ITV 1 HD (ITV Central West), 104 Channel 4 HD Midlands ads, 105 Channel 5 HD, 106 BBC Four HD, 107 BBC Three HD, 204 CBBC HD, 205 CBeebies HD, plus 1 others |
Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?
The Garth Hill (Powys, Wales) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, 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, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.
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 Garth Hill transmitter?
BBC Midlands Today 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 1RF, 80km east (80°)
to BBC West Midlands region - 66 masts.
ITV Central News 2.9m homes 10.9%
from Birmingham B1 2JT, 80km east (80°)
to ITV Central (West) region - 65 masts.
All of lunch, weekend and 80% evening news is shared with Central (East)
How will the Garth Hill (Powys, Wales) transmission frequencies change over time?
1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 1 Mar 2018- | |||||
C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | C/D E T | |||||
C53tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
C57tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
C60tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | D3+4 | D3+4 | ||||
C63 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
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 6 Apr 11 and 20 Apr 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-4 | 31W | |
PSB1≡, PSB2≡, PSB3≡ | (-6.2dB) 7.4W | |
PSB1||, PSB2||, PSB3|| | (-7.9dB) 5W |
Local transmitter maps
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Thursday, 21 April 2011
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Andrew Catling12:59 PM
Knighton
We were away on holiday during the digital switchover but have retuned the TV and cannot now get several channels like Dave, Sky News etc.
Will these be back soon or how can we recover them now?
My location is LD7 1NG
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Andrew Catling1:03 PM
Knighton
The signal is on the roof and we have tried auto reset twice
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Friday, 22 April 2011
Andrew Catling: Only the channels listed above are provided from this transmitter.
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Wednesday, 21 September 2016
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Gary salt11:16 AM
Hi have no signal for two days have done resets no joy post code ld71bd Knighton powys thanks
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Friday, 30 September 2016
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Gary salt8:18 PM
Knighton
Ld7 1bd still no signal week three
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Sunday, 2 October 2016
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MB8:03 AM
Gary salt: There are no faults with the Garth Hill TV transmitters. If you have had no reception on any service for three weeks then it must be a problem with your receiving setup.
All the transmitters are monitored 24h a day by Arqiva, and each multiplex is a separate independent transmitter.
It seems, despite however many times its said, people dont get the message - if you lose a service, DO NOT retune until you have eliminated ANY possible fault with your own system. Otherwise all you will do is delete the stations already listed in your receiver!
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MB8:06 AM
Also, Garth Hill is the feeder station for the transmitters at Knucklas, which also have no faults.
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Wednesday, 28 December 2016
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A I Gilmour6:06 PM
Knighton
There is no signal whatsoever from the Garth Hill transmitter. What on earth are you doing? WOuld you please ask an engineer to investigate the cause and resolve the issue
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StevensOnln111:47 PM
A I Gilmour: This website is independent and has nothing to do with any broadcaster or transmitter company, therefore the problem you are experiencing cannot be caused by anything to do with this website nor we can't send an engineer to investigate. If you look at the transmitter engineering posts above yours, you'll see that they are already aware of a fault.
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Thursday, 9 February 2017
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Dennis Mills1:07 PM
Knighton
I have not had a signal from the Garth Hill transmitter for two days yet the website says there are no problems there.
My postcode is LD7 1HY
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