Freeview Light on the Wrexham Rhos (Wrexham, Wales) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Wrexham Rhos (Wrexham, Wales) transmitter which serves 29,000 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 Wrexham Rhos (Wrexham, Wales) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Wrexham Rhos (Wrexham, 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 Freeview channels does the Wrexham Rhos 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 | C28 (530.0MHz) | 257m | DTG- | 80W |
 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 | C22 (482.0MHz) | 257m | DTG- | 80W |
 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 | C25 (506.0MHz) | 257m | DTG- | 80W |
 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 | |||||
Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?
The Wrexham Rhos (Wrexham, 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 Wrexham Rhos transmitter?
BBC Wales Today 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 2YQ, 176km south (185°)
to BBC Wales region - 206 masts.
ITV Cymru Wales 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 6XJ, 180km south (186°)
to ITV Wales region - 206 masts.
How will the Wrexham Rhos (Wrexham, Wales) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 31 Mar 2019- | |||||
| K T | K T | K T | A K T | A K T | |||||
| C22 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||||||
| C25 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C28 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C32 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
| C39 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves |
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 28 Oct 09 and 25 Nov 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 200W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-4dB) 80W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Moel-Y-Parc transmitter area
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Saturday, 5 February 2011
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steve8:25 PM
Rhos? Rhosllanerchrugog, surely?
Anyone know if this is receivable in Chirk - ~ 5 miles south?
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steve8:29 PM
Wrexham
...and how it relates to Cefn Mawr - very close to Rhosetc. but hill in way? Unless Tx on top of hill?
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steve's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
steve: "WREXHAM-RHOS" is the official name for the transmitter. Ofcom use it, the BBC use it, Arqiva use it.
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steve: The other transmitter is here - Cefn Mawr A digital TV transmitter | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
Transmitter are usually put on top of hills.
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Tuesday, 4 October 2011
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john phillips9:45 PM
hello sorry to trouble you,we are a small aerial company in the wrexham area,we are having major problems with welsh reception from the brymbo welsh transmitter,all has been ok up until the switch over last week 28/09/11 lots of clients that get reception from brymbo have lost reception around this date so its associated with the switch over? am i right in saying fenton now transmitts at the same frequency as brymbo??we need help please
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Wednesday, 5 October 2011
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KMJ,Derby9:27 AM
john phillips: Fenton does transmit the COM muxes on C22+, C25 and C28 at 1kW. There is more likely to be conflict though between transmissions from Moel Y Parc and Sutton Coldfield on C42 and C45. Sutton Coldfield transmits at 200kW. Both Fenton and Sutton Coldfield completed DSO stage 2 on 21st September 2011.
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Steve P10:13 AM
Wrexham
jp - IS there a "Brymbo" tx?
Or do you mean Wxm Rhos / Cefn Mawr?
There are maps here showing what txs are linked and how.
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Steve's: mapS's Freeview map terrainS's terrain plot wavesS's frequency data S's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 25 October 2011
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RobJ8:52 PM
Hello, We previously had free view from the winter hill transmitter. However the tuner within the tv broke and we had to go without for a few weeks. When we purchased a new set, the signal is via the Wrexham rhos transmitter ( we live in Wrexham) but it is incredibly poor. In fact it worked temporarily for a day and then has been on the blink since. The tv is fine as we have tested it elsewhere. So, 2 questions please. A) is there a way to manually tune to winter hill and b) has there been issues with the Wrexham rhos transmitter as I noted the work being done today? In terms of antenna, we have a variable gain masthead amplifier which has served us well in the past. Many thanks for any help
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Wednesday, 26 October 2011
RobJ: As above, the transmitter was off-air from 10:06 yesterday to 13:36 yesterday. I would suggest you retune your box.
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Wednesday, 16 November 2011
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john phillips10:50 PM
with regards to wrexham rhos transmitter,what is going on, dose any one know ?? all problems started dso wreking on 28/9/11 up to that date no problems after that, problems the fix so we are told,is a single lead no combiners etc yes this is possible, but nowdays most have more than one television,and want more than a dozen chanels,which is all we get from wrexham rhos,so 2 arieals norh west/welsh combined in distribution then fed to respective rooms,its been like this for years up until the dso on the 28/9/11 how do we tell customers that we have dealt with for years that the system they have is defunct,its mad,whatever was done at the dso needs to be re looked and not blamed on conbiners/amps an so on,the more complaints the bbc get perhaps something will get done,and belive me iv tryd good luck
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