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Freeview Light on the Usk (Monmouthshire, Wales) transmitter

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The symbol shows the location of the Usk (Monmouthshire, Wales) transmitter which serves 1,300 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 Usk (Monmouthshire, Wales) transmitter.

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Which Freeview channels does the Usk 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
 H max
C40 (626.0MHz)70mDTG-4W
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
 H max
C43 (650.0MHz)70mDTG-4W
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),

PSB3
BBCB
 H max
C46 (674.0MHz)70mDTG-4W
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
the effected channels
the effected channels

The Usk (Monmouthshire, Wales) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, GREAT! action, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, GREAT! romance, 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, TCC, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, W, 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 Usk transmitter?

regional news image
BBC Wales Today 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 2YQ, 32km southwest (227°)
to BBC Wales region - 206 masts.
regional news image
ITV Cymru Wales 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 6XJ, 37km southwest (226°)
to ITV Wales region - 206 masts.

How will the Usk (Monmouthshire, Wales) transmission frequencies change over time?

1984-971997-981998-20102010-1329 Jun 2019
B E TB E TB E TC/D E TB E K T
C40BBCA
C42C4wavesC4wavesC4waves
C43D3+4
C45BBC2wavesBBC2wavesBBC2waves
C46BBCB
C48ITVwavesITVwavesITVwavesBBCA
C52tv_offBBC1wavesBBC1wavesBBC1wavesD3+4
C56tv_offBBCB

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 22W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7.9dB) 3.6W

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Wenvoe 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. Usk 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
Monday, 30 August 2021
Transmitter engineering
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5:22 AM

Usk transmitter - Usk transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 30/08/2021 Screen may go black on some or all channels [DUK]

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Thursday, 23 September 2021
Transmitter engineering
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9:07 PM

USK transmitter - Freeview: Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 23 Sep 19:21. . [BBC]

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Friday, 24 September 2021
Transmitter engineering
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12:06 PM

USK transmitter - Freeview: Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 23 Sep 19:21 until 24 Sep 09:25. . [BBC]

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Monday, 11 October 2021
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11:44 PM

USK transmitter - Freeview: Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 11 Oct 22:08 until 11 Oct 23:08. . [BBC]

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Tuesday, 12 October 2021
Transmitter engineering
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5:43 AM

USK transmitter - Freeview: Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 12 Oct 02:56 until 12 Oct 03:43. Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 11 Oct 22:08 until 11 Oct 23:08. . [BBC]

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Saturday, 16 October 2021
Transmitter engineering
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11:29 PM

USK transmitter - Freeview: Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 12 Oct 02:56 until 12 Oct 03:43. . [BBC]

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Tuesday, 30 November 2021
Transmitter engineering
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9:09 AM

USK transmitter - Freeview: Off the air due to a fault from 30 Nov 05:48 until 30 Nov 06:45. . [BBC]

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Sunday, 13 February 2022
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Matthew Hall
11:13 AM

Are you sure the Usk repeater is Horizontally polarised?
It is approximately inline with the Mendip transmitter (Tx Hor).
Thanks.

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StevensOnln1
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2:15 PM

Matthew Hall: Entering the Usk transmitter's postcode found at the top of this page into Freeview's detailed coverage checker shows that Usk is vertically polarised rather than horizontal and currently uses UHF channels 40/43/46 which are not used at Mendip, not that anything is predicted to be receivable from Mendip anyway.

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Saturday, 27 May 2023
Transmitter engineering
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7:09 AM

USK transmitter - Freeview: Weather conditions may be affecting your reception from 27 May 04:58. . [BBC]

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