Full Freeview on the Kilvey Hill (Swansea, Wales) transmitter

Brian Butterworth first published this on 1st May 2004 at 08:20 - UK Free TV

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51.629,-3.920 or 51°37'45"N 3°55'12"W

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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.

Choose from three options: ■ List by multiplex ■ List by channel number ■ List by channel name

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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.

Mux	H/V	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	V max	C21 (474.0MHz)	243m	DTG-	2,000W
	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	C24 (498.0MHz)	243m	DTG-	2,000W
	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),
PSB3 BBCB	V max	C27 (522.0MHz)	243m	DTG-	2,000W
	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 66 TBN UK,
COM4 SDN	V max	C25 (506.0MHz)	243m	DTG-8	2,000W
	E4 (Wales), 20 Drama, 21 5USA, 29 ITV2 +1, 32 5STAR, 33 5Action, 38 Channel 5 +1, 41 Legend, 57 Dave ja vu, 58 ITVBe +1, 59 ITV3 +1, 64 Blaze, 67 TRUE CRIME, 68 TRUE CRIME XTRA, 78 TCC, 81 Blaze +1, 89 ITV4 +1, 91 WildEarth, 209 Ketchup TV, 210 Ketchup Too, 211 YAAAS!, 267 Al Jazeera English, plus 34 others
COM5 ArqA	V max	C22 (482.0MHz)	243m	DTG-8	2,000W
	Smithsonian Channel, 11 Sky Mix, 17 Really, 19 Dave, 31 E4 Extra, 36 Sky Arts, 40 Quest Red, 43 Food Network, 47 Film4 +1, 48 Challenge, 49 4seven, 60 Drama +1, 65 That's Christmas, 70 Quest +1, 74 Yesterday +1, 75 That's 90s, 233 Sky News, plus 11 others
COM6 ArqB	V max	C28 (530.0MHz)	243m	DTG-8	2,000W
	Quest Red +1, Classic Hits, 12 Quest, 25 W, 27 Yesterday, 34 GREAT! movies, 39 DMAX, 44 HGTV, 52 GREAT! christmas, 56 That's TV (UK), 61 GREAT! movies extra, 63 GREAT! christmas mix, 71 That’s 60s, 73 HobbyMaker, 82 Talking Pictures TV, 83 Together TV, 84 PBS America, 235 Al Jazeera Eng, plus 20 others

DTG-8 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	BBCtv_waves
C21						BBCA
C22					ArqA	ArqA
C23		ITV_waves	ITV_waves	ITV_waves	BBCA
C24						D3+4
C25					SDN	SDN
C26		BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	BBC2_waves	D3+4
C27						BBCB
C28					ArqB	ArqB
C29		C4_waves	C4_waves	C4_waves	BBCB
C30					_local
C33		BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves	BBC1_waves
C34						_local
C35			C5_waves	C5_waves

_{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

Local transmitter maps

Kilvey Hill Freeview Kilvey Hill DAB Kilvey Hill TV region BBC Wales Wales

Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Kilvey Hill transmitter area

Jan 1958-Jul 1968	Television Wales and the West
Jul 1968-Feb 2004	Harlech Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014	ITV plc

Feb 1983-Dec 1992	TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010	GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014	ITV Daybreak•

• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only. Kilvey Hill was not an original Channel 3 VHF 405-line mast: the historical information shown is the details of the company responsible for the transmitter when it began transmitting Channel 3.

Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

Radiation patterns withheld

Transmitter engineering

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8:09 AM

- Freeview: BBC TV Off Air; related from 00:01 today to 04:36 today, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:01 today to 04:36 today. [BBC]

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- Freeview: BBC TV Off Air; related from 00:01 yesterday to 04:36 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:01 yesterday to 04:36 yesterday. [BBC]

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8:09 AM

- Freeview: BBC TV Off Air; related from 00:01 yesterday to 04:36 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:01 yesterday to 04:36 yesterday. FM: Radio 4 FM Off Air from 06:36 today to 07:07 today. [BBC]

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5:08 AM

- Freeview: BBC TV Off Air; related from 00:01 on 26 Jun to 04:36 on 26 Jun, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:01 on 26 Jun to 04:36 on 26 Jun. FM: Radio 4 FM Off Air from 06:36 yesterday to 07:07 yesterday. [BBC]

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5:08 AM

- Freeview: BBC TV Off Air; related from 00:01 on 26 Jun to 04:36 on 26 Jun, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:01 on 26 Jun to 04:36 on 26 Jun. FM: Radio 4 FM Off Air from 06:36 on 27 Jun to 07:07 on 27 Jun. [BBC]

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David Kirby
1:41 PM

Would you be kind enough to advise on any known reason why our television in is being disrupted please?
Many thanks.
Regards,
Dave

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Chris.SE

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11:29 PM

David Kirby:

There is work going on on a lot of welsh transmitters this week and a major retune event at some including . Hpefully it will have settled down by the time you read this.

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11:08 AM

- Freeview: BBC TV Off Air; related from 00:00 yesterday to 02:58 yesterday, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:00 yesterday to 02:58 yesterday. [BBC]

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- Freeview: BBC TV Off Air; related from 00:00 on 17 Jul to 02:58 on 17 Jul, HD Digital TV Off Air; DSO related from 00:00 on 17 Jul to 02:58 on 17 Jul. [BBC]

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John P
8:00 PM

I have a TV in my Linux computer and use Kaffeine software to watch TV. One of the few not picked up when I , is BBC Four from the . It finds 98 channels. This is the Kilvey Hill section from the config file. Can I edit this to pick up remaining channels ?

[dvb-t/uk-KilveyHill]
T 482000000 8MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 8k 1/32 NONE
T 490000000 8MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/32 NONE
T 506000000 8MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 8k 1/32 NONE
T 514000000 8MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/32 NONE
T 530000000 8MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 8k 1/32 NONE

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