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 withheldTuesday, 26 July 2016
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Mike Davies12:04 PM
We have had several re-tunes over the past few mths/weeks is this all necessary
we had a re- tune a week ago and now again today July 26th
I live in Neath we have a good signal
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StevensOnln112:19 PM
Mike Davies: Retunes are necessary if you want new (or moved) channels to appear on your TV. There will be a major retune on Thursday this week relating to the BBC's temporary Olympic services. You can always ignore retune notices and just retune manually if a channel you want to watch is affected.
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Wednesday, 27 July 2016
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John8:32 PM
Why doesn't Kilvey Hill transmit the extra HD channels? Does anyone know when it will, or indeed will it ever transmit them?
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Saturday, 13 May 2017
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Neil Jenkins1:58 PM
Hi. I'm covered by the kilvey hill transmitter which means I'm unable to get channels 106 to 119. BBC news hd BBC 4 hd etc. Are there any plans to upgrade this? Thanks. Neil.
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StevensOnln15:12 PM
Neil Jenkins: No, there aren't. Those channels are broadcast on the COM7 and COM8 multiplexes which are temporary services covering around 75% of the population from 30 transmitters and are expected to close in 2020.
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Monday, 29 May 2017
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frank3:40 PM
Swansea
Above list of channels for Kilvey hill transmitter shows S4C HD available but at SA5 8HA, information on TV set shows S4C. Which is correct, Please?
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frank's: mapF's Freeview map terrainF's terrain plot wavesF's frequency data F's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 30 May 2017
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StevensOnln12:04 PM
frank: S4C HD is only available on Sky and Freesat, I have no idea why it is listed for this transmitter but it is definitely an error.
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Thursday, 9 November 2017
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Hector9:46 PM
there are problems with kilvey hill for a good 2 weeks now, started with COM5 and COM6 Mux but it's now affecting also PSB3 and COM4.
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MikeB10:42 PM
Hector: The transmitter is probably fine (you can check) - they dont go wrong for two weeks. But if you keep losing muxes, thats your aerial system. You need to check it.
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