Full Freeview on the Kilvey Hill (Swansea, Wales) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Kilvey Hill (Swansea, Wales) transmitter which serves 120,000 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.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Kilvey Hill (Swansea, Wales) transmitter._______
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 Kilvey Hill (Swansea, 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 Kilvey 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.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Kilvey Hill (Swansea, 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 Kilvey Hill transmitter?
BBC Wales Today 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 2YQ, 50km east-southeast (108°)
to BBC Wales region - 206 masts.
ITV Cymru Wales 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 6XJ, 49km east-southeast (113°)
to ITV Wales region - 206 masts.
Are there any self-help relays?
New Inn C/p | Transposer | 8 km NE Tenby | 1 homes 100 caravans |
How will the Kilvey Hill (Swansea, Wales) transmission frequencies change over time?
1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 17 Jul 2019 | ||||
VHF | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | A K T | ||||
C2 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
C21 | BBCA | ||||||||
C22 | ArqA | ArqA | |||||||
C23 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | BBCA | |||||
C24 | D3+4 | ||||||||
C25 | SDN | SDN | |||||||
C26 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | D3+4 | |||||
C27 | BBCB | ||||||||
C28 | ArqB | ArqB | |||||||
C29 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | |||||
C30 | _local | ||||||||
C33 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | ||||||
C34 | _local | ||||||||
C35 | C5waves | C5waves |
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 12 Aug 09 and 9 Sep 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
Analogue 1-5 | 10kW | |
SDN, ARQA, ARQB, BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 2kW | |
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux B* | (-12.2dB) 600W | |
Mux A* | (-15.2dB) 300W | |
Mux C*, Mux D* | (-20dB) 100W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Kilvey Hill transmitter area
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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?
Radiation patterns withheldFriday, 15 September 2023
Transmitter engineering
10:48 AM
10:48 AM
Kilvey Hill transmitter - Kilvey Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 11/09/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 18 September 2023
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
Kilvey Hill transmitter - Kilvey Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 18/09/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 25 September 2023
Transmitter engineering
5:10 AM
5:10 AM
Kilvey Hill transmitter - Kilvey Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 25/09/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Saturday, 30 September 2023
Transmitter engineering
8:09 AM
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KILVEY HILL transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 28 Sep 10:24 until 28 Sep 12:36. . FM: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 28 Sep 10:18 until 28 Sep 12:36. . [BBC]
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Monday, 2 October 2023
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
Kilvey Hill transmitter - Kilvey Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 02/10/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
Kilvey Hill transmitter - Kilvey Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 02/10/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Monday, 9 October 2023
Transmitter engineering
6:09 AM
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Kilvey Hill transmitter - Kilvey Hill transmitter: Possible effect on TV reception week commencing 09/10/2023 Pixelation or flickering on some or all channels [DUK]
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Tuesday, 10 October 2023
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Susan Rees 4:58 PM
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Problems since saturday 7th october no tv at all and intermittent tv during weekend also week commencing 9th october similar issues. Postcode sa16 0hl
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Chris.SE5:04 PM
Susan Rees :
Apart from the Planned Engineering which will not help (and they never provide details of the work or duration) I'm afraid it's down to current weather conditions -
They have been causing Tropospheric Ducting affecting much of the south coast and southern parts of the country on Saturday and now extending into the Midlands and North of the country through Sunday including East Anglia, now currently affecting Wales and England. This causes interfering signals from distant transmitters in Europe or the UK to affect reception of your wanted signals. This can periodically last, seconds, minutes and sometimes much longer - Do NOT Retune.
There is nothing you can do about this apart from wait for conditions to change, or use online streaming if available.
IF you did retune, you'd be best manually retuning the UHF channels for your transmitter, as detailed in the top section of this page.
The BBC and Freeview have issued warnings -
High pressure weather conditions impacting TV & Radio services - from 07 October | Help receiving TV and radio
High pressure could affect reception across parts of the UK this week | Freeview
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Wednesday, 11 October 2023
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michael12:14 PM
Chris, your expertise and guidance are impressive!
Question : Is there a website which lists all transmitters on each channel/frequency ?
Thanks!
Michael
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