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 withheldWednesday, 9 January 2019
MikeP
10:14 PM
10:14 PM
Graham Richards:
Just because other people are not getting the benmefit of all channels from Presceli doesn't mean you can't. If you look at the predicted reception at your location, go to Coverage Checker - Detailed View it will show you that reception from Kilvey Hill is expected to be variable to poor whereas Presceli is expected top be good on all channels.
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Wednesday, 24 April 2019
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
KILVEY HILL transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 03:49 today to 04:16 today, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 03:49 today to 04:16 today. [BBC]
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Thursday, 25 April 2019
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
KILVEY HILL transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 03:49 yesterday to 04:16 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 03:49 yesterday to 04:16 yesterday. [BBC]
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Friday, 26 April 2019
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
KILVEY HILL transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 03:49 on 24 Apr to 04:16 on 24 Apr, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 03:49 on 24 Apr to 04:16 on 24 Apr. [BBC]
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Wednesday, 8 May 2019
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
KILVEY HILL transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:03 today, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:03 today. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
8:09 AM
8:09 AM
KILVEY HILL transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:03 today to 03:44 today, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:03 today to 03:44 today. [BBC]
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Thursday, 16 May 2019
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
KILVEY HILL transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:03 yesterday to 03:44 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:03 yesterday to 03:44 yesterday. [BBC]
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Friday, 17 May 2019
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
KILVEY HILL transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:03 on 15 May to 03:44 on 15 May, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:03 on 15 May to 03:44 on 15 May. [BBC]
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Wednesday, 26 June 2019
Transmitter engineering
5:09 AM
5:09 AM
KILVEY HILL transmitter - Freeview: BBC Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:01 today, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:01 today. [BBC]
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