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The symbol shows the location of the Llandinam (Powys, Wales) transmitter which serves 7,400 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.

Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Llandinam (Powys, Wales) mast?

Llandinam transmitter - Llandinam transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 02/12/2024 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels Digital tick


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Which Freeview channels does the Llandinam 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.

MuxH/VFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 V max
C41+ (634.2MHz)497mDTG-50W
Channel icons
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, plus 14 others

PSB2
D3+4
 V max
C47 (682.0MHz)497mDTG-50W
Channel icons
5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 13 E4, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 28 ITVBe, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Wales), 71 That’s 60s,

PSB3
BBCB
 V max
C44 (658.0MHz)497mDTG-50W
Channel icons
46 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Wales, 102 BBC Two HD Wales, 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

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?

the effected channels
the effected channels
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the effected channels

The Llandinam (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 Llandinam transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Wales Today 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 2YQ, 110km south (174°)
to BBC Wales region - 206 masts.
regional news image
ITV Cymru Wales 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 6XJ, 113km south (176°)
to ITV Wales region - 206 masts.

How will the Llandinam (Powys, Wales) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20092009-1331 Dec 2018-
B E TB E TB E TB E K TB E K T
C41ITVwavesITVwavesITVwaves+BBCABBCA
C44BBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBCBBBCB
C47C4wavesC4wavesC4wavesD3+4D3+4
C51tv_offBBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves

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 4 Nov 09 and 3 Dec 09.

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

Analogue 1-4 250W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7dB) 50W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Long Mountain transmitter area

Jan 1958-Jul 1968Television Wales and the West
Jul 1968-Feb 2004Harlech Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Llandinam 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.

Comments
Friday, 4 February 2011
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Tim Joseph
4:59 PM

seems to be off air right now - I guess due to the high winds this afternoon.

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Saturday, 5 February 2011
Briantist
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7:35 AM

Tim Joseph: Yes, there have been widespread weather-related power failures.

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Thursday, 9 August 2012
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GAIL GWESYN-PRYCE
1:30 PM
Caersws

constant freezing picture since last night.All chanels. My aerial is in my loft, obviously a tranmitter fault like last time when it was blamed on bad weather - now we have a sunny day - whats wrong, when will it be fixed?
SY17 5RF

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Mark Fletcher
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3:28 PM
Halifax

Gail Gwesyn-Pryce.I would look up inversion effect as a likely cause of your predicament as such.
You mentioned it being sunny,well areas of high pressure (most of the time) can lead to reception playing up and occasionally picking up alien transmissions (not the ET type) so check now and again between 21-68/9 frequencies of any anomolies.

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Mark Fletcher
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3:31 PM
Halifax

Then again check the Transmitter Engineering text on Thursday 9 August 2012,2.01pm immediately below your text,Gail too !

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Monday, 30 October 2023
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Stuart Manson
10:11 AM

Can you please tell me when the bbc standard definition channels will be reinstated on the Llandinam transmitter. I have an elderly neighbour who has an old television which cannot play high definition channels so she can't watch bbc at all at the moment. She does pay her licence fee!! Thankyou

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Chris.SE
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12:25 PM

Stuart Manson:

A fault has been reported according to the latest data from the BBC but Arqiva never provide details of such things as it will take time to get an engineer on site, discover and remedy the fault.

The fault reported is "From 10:35am on 30th Oct 2023 BBC A Off the air due to a fault"
Now the timing of that is after your post above which suggests the possibility of another problem if your neighbour hasn't been receiving the BBC channels for a while. When did she stop getting them?
Were you getting them prior to 1035?

The was a previous fault reported 3 days ago
From 3:44pm to 6:51pm on 27th Oct 2023 BBC A & BBCB HD Off the air due to a fault, along with the DAB & FM faults, that one suggests the whole transmitter may have been off-air (the BBC don't report on the ITV/C4/C5 channels) perhaps due to a power cut!. Have you been receiving other channels ok? have you had any power cuts in the area today?


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Steve Donaldson
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1:39 PM

Stuart Manson: According to Freeview, there are engineering works at Long Mountain transmitter, which is where Llandinam gets its feed from:

Planned engineering works | Freeview

There is a comment to this site from someone on the Carno transmitter complaining of issues. Carno is another relay of Long Mountain.

Long Mountain has 14 relays: Broneirion*, Carno*, Castle Caereinion, Kerry, Llanbrynmair*, Llandinam*, Llanfyllin, Llangadfan, Llangurig UHF*, Llangynog, Llanidloes*, Llanrhaeadr ym Mochnant, Moel Y Sant, Tregynon. Those marked with a '*' are shown as having the following faults by BBC Reception [bbc.co.uk/reception]:


From 10:35am on 30th Oct 2023 BBC A Off the air due to a fault
From 3:44pm to 6:51pm on 27th Oct 2023 BBC A Off the air due to a fault
From 3:44pm to 6:51pm on 27th Oct 2023 BBC B HD Off the air due to a fault

All others have no faults, including Long Mountain itself.

Of those six with faults, one is Llandinam and the other five are relays of Llandinam, this information from mb21 Transmitter Gallery.

Also from mb21, Llandinam is now line fed (fed by fibre line) from Long Mountain, although there are antennas at Llandinam pointing at Long Mountain, perhaps as standby (this just speculation on my part).

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Tuesday, 31 October 2023
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Chris.SE
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2:35 AM

Stuart Manson:

Service was restored at 1.46pm.

The fault report comes direct from BBC Engineering.
From 10:35am to 1:46pm on 30th Oct 2023 BBC A Off the air due to a fault
Long Mountain had no reported faults.

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