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 11/11/2024 Screen may go black 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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Sunday, 1 April 2012
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Jamie9:02 AM
Anyone else lost all the hd channels since 31.03.2012 ?
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Thursday, 5 April 2012
Jamie: No reports of this - see Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice for help.
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Monday, 9 April 2012
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Jamie11:15 AM
They came back when I checked Monday the 2nd April and lasted all week but now they are breaking up badly so if there are no faults then maybe I am not using this transmitter and I could be using Mynydd Machen ? I did not install my antenna and its in the loft so never checked anything but have had issues with HD channels since the switch over.
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Tuesday, 10 April 2012
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Jamie9:48 AM
Just to update the HD is working again now as of 8:30am 10.04.2012.
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Jamie: I a glad to hear that the services are working again.
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Saturday, 18 August 2012
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J.T.Verrier10:26 AM
Cwmbran
Re: Pontypool transmitter.
Rooftop aerial with signal booster but rather low because we live in a bungalow.
Able to receive Ch.22 482MHz - ITV Wales and S4C
but not Ch. 21 474MHz - BBC1 Wales and BBC2 Wales.
Signal quality 0 to 5
Signal strength approx 5.
Mendip signal perfect on different aerial.
Can you help please?
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J.T.Verrier's: mapJ's Freeview map terrainJ's terrain plot wavesJ's frequency data J's Freeview Detailed Coverage
J.T.Verrier: Pontypool does broadcast on C22, but it is COM5/ArqA which carries Pick TV and others.
PSB2: ITV Wales, S4C etc is on C26 and BBC is on C23 and not C21.
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Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
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Wayne9:22 AM
I live in the Cwmbran area and have never been able
To recieve hd chans from the pontypool transmitter even though the aerial can see it, sd progs are perfect..I had a local aerial guy come round and see of he could get hd freeview for me and the only way he could recieve hd was to add an aerial and put it on the mendip transmitter and diplex the aerials together. The aerial guy said that he always gets the same problem from the pontypool transmitter with hd but couldn't give me a reason why. Can anyone shed any light on this problem and has any else experienced the same scenario?
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Wednesday, 5 March 2014
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barrie wreford8:24 PM
Newport
is there a problem with power output of the pontypool transmitter of radiation to the south as several viewers in the malpas area of newport have lost all mutiplexes very low signal, not aerial problem.
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barrie's: mapB's Freeview map terrainB's terrain plot wavesB's frequency data B's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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