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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Wrexham Rhos (Wrexham, Wales) mast?
WREXHAM RHOS transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 19 Nov 13:26 until 19 Nov 15:20. . 
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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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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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Friday, 18 November 2011
john phillips: There is no fault with the transmitter, please see Freeview reception has changed? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice for help. Can't really say anything specific without a full postcode.
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john phillips9:21 PM
you are correct there is nothing wrong with the transmitter,post code ll141ah its the blocking,pixulating,no signal thats the problem,the whole of rhosllanercrugog the largest village in wales have intermittent or no welsh reception,due to dso fentton,wreking?increase in power?fenton chanel 22plus1?? very close to the wrexham/rhos mux?? this is also affected by different weather patterns,which points to another transmitter,aviva/digitaluk know theres a problem, any help would be great thanks
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Friday, 25 November 2011
Stuart O.
7:37 PM
Wrexham
7:37 PM
Wrexham
john phillips: I'm noticing also how the signal for D3&4 (Ch.22) sometimes seems quite poor. Tonight it was 54 Strength 0 Quality whereas BBCA (Ch.28) was around both 90 Strength and Quality.
I can only presume like yourself it's because of D3&4 from The Wrekin (Ch. 23) having quite a high signal strength and quality but also down to the weather pulling in The Wrekin signal stronger and blocking out nearby signals so 22 and 23 being consecutive channels, and 23 despite being further away but at a much higher transmission power practically blocks out 22 that is transmitted from less than a mile away from where I live. 28 from Wrexham-Rhos appears to be unaffected so presume it's because there's no high-powered transmitters pumping anything out on 27 or 29.
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Thursday, 9 February 2012
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DJP12:23 PM
Wrexham
Hi, we recently purchased a new HD TV and upon installation the tv was "tuned in" by the delivery guys. Wales region was the prefered region chosen and all relevant channels were received as expected. Today, upon switching the tv on, a message was displayed stating to re-tune and update channels. I have done this, along with chosing Wales as the prefered region, and now S4C Clirlun has disappeared from the channel line up. I have tried manually tuning the tv by imputting the channel number 53 (freq 730) and a "bar" is being displayed for signal strength, but nothing is being displayed on signal quality and although the message "searching" is being displayed, nothing seems to be happening, as this has been displayed for over half an hour. Our aerial is in the loft and pointing towards Wrexham-Rhos. I would be grateful if you could offer some advice as what to do as I was really looking forward to watching the rugby in HD on S4C!!! Thanks
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DJP: You need to tune to channel 25 for HD services from Wrexham Rhos transmitter.
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DJP1:16 PM
Wrexham
Thanks Dave for the advice. Tried Channel 25 but still no S4C Clirlun. Even tried Channel 42(MYP) but again no S4C Clirlun.
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DJP: Try running the automatic tuning scan with the aerial unplugged and then again with it plugged in until it gets to 25% (or until it's picked up channel 28 (which is BBC from Wrexham).
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DJP2:04 PM
Wrexham
Thanks Dave, I have done what you've suggested, both BBC 1 and 2 Wales are "bad signals", ITV Wales and S4C are ok though, still no S4C Clirlun and I've noticed ITV 1HD is now Granada instead of Central.
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DJP2:14 PM
Wrexham
Just done another tuning scan and everything appears to be back to normal now. All 4 Welsh channels coming through clearly, ITV 1 HD is back as Central and S4C Clirlun has returned, whilst all north west channels, including HD channels have returned to the 800's.
Many thanks for your advice and help
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