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Freeview Light on the Morfa Nefyn (Gwynedd, Wales) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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52.892,-4.551 or 52°53'32"N 4°33'3"W

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The symbol shows the location of the Morfa Nefyn (Gwynedd, Wales) transmitter which serves 900 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 Morfa Nefyn (Gwynedd, Wales) transmitter.

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name

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Which Freeview channels does the Morfa Nefyn 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	V max	C25 (506.0MHz)	151m	DTG-	28W
	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, 250 BBC Red Button, plus 13 others
PSB2 D3+4	V max	C28 (530.0MHz)	151m	DTG-	28W
	5 Channel 5, 6 ITV 2, 10 ITV3, 14 Film4, 15 Channel 4 +1 South ads, 18 More4, 26 ITV4, 30 E4 +1, 35 ITV1 +1 (Wales),
PSB3 BBCB	V max	C22 (482.0MHz)	151m	DTG-	28W
	56 5SELECT, 101 BBC One HD Wales, 102 BBC Two HD (England), 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 66 TBN UK,

H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)

Are you trying to watch these 43 Freeview channels?

The Morfa Nefyn (Gwynedd, Wales) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Blaze, Blaze +1, CBS Reality, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, YAAAS!, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, E4 Extra, Film4 +1, Food Network, GB News, GREAT! movies, GREAT! movies action, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, pick, Pop Player, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky News, Smithsonian Channel, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, That's TV (UK), Together TV, 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 Morfa Nefyn transmitter?

BBC Wales Today 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 2YQ, 180km south-southeast (151°)
to BBC Wales region - 206 masts.

ITV Cymru Wales 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 6XJ, 182km south-southeast (152°)
to ITV Wales region - 206 masts.

How will the Morfa Nefyn (Gwynedd, Wales) transmission frequencies change over time?

	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2009	2009-13	31 Dec 2018-
	A K T	A K T	A K T	A K T	A K T
C22	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBCB	BBCB
C25	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	BBCA	BBCA
C28	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	D3+4	D3+4
C32	C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves

_{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 21 Oct 09 and 18 Nov 09.

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

Analogue 1-4	90W
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB	(-5.1dB) 28W

Local transmitter maps

Morfa Nefyn Freeview Llanddona TV region BBC Wales Wales

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Llanddona 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. Morfa Nefyn 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.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

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Tuesday, 31 March 2020

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10:29 PM

- : Off the air due to essential from 31 Mar 11:32 until 31 Mar 11:32. . [BBC]

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Saturday, 25 April 2020

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- : Off the air due to a fault from 24 Apr 17:53 until 25 Apr 02:03. . [BBC]

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- : Off the air due to a fault from 24 Apr 17:53 until 25 Apr 02:03. . [BBC]

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Tuesday, 5 May 2020

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- : Off the air due to a fault from 4 May 20:11 until 5 May 05:58. . [BBC]

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Thursday, 7 May 2020

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- : Off the air due to a fault from 5 May 21:41 until 5 May 21:49. Off the air due to a fault from 4 May 20:11 until 5 May 05:58. . [BBC]

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Saturday, 20 June 2020

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- : Off the air due to a fault from 19 Jun 09:00 until 19 Jun 10:34. . [BBC]

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Thursday, 25 June 2020

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- : Off the air due to a fault from 25 Jun 03:05. Off the air due to a fault from 19 Jun 09:00 until 19 Jun 10:34. . [BBC]

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Friday, 26 June 2020

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Thursday, 1 October 2020

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- : Off the air due to essential from 30 Sep 14:00 until 30 Sep 15:04. . [BBC]

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Wednesday, 11 November 2020

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