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 withheldSaturday, 25 September 2021
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Chris.SE3:13 PM
Carl Lewis:
You should never retune when you have interference or loss of signal due to that, or Planned Engineering or transmitter faults that cause pixellation or no signal. In most instances this just clears the correct tuning of the affected multiplexes and you end up with nothing or tuned to the wrong (more distant) transmitter.
If you are correctly tuned, do NOT retune it serves no purpose.
The only instance where a retune may be suggested (usually advised by an on-screen pop-up) is where a commercial operator changes one of their channels on one of the COM multiplexes. If you happen to be in an "awkward" reception area then a manual retune on the UHF channel(s) for the affected multiplex(es) is usually the best suggestion.
Your predicted reception at your locale is not the best, although it could depend on where you are within your postcode as it could be variable, even poor or good! for some multiplexes.
This is because you might receive signals from other more distant transmitters (and there are several in parts of Devon, Cornwall, also parts of S.Wales) that use the same frequencies and in normal conditions it wouldn't be a problem. Matters will be made worse in weather conditions that enable the TV signals to travel a lot further than normal - we have had such conditions of late. When there is very strong "Tropospheric Ducting" even signals from Europe can be received (see How does good weather affect my television? | Help receiving TV and radio and the links on those pages for a simplistic explanation). Not all multiplexes will be affected at the same time or for the same lengths of time. A lot of aerials have "side-lobes" which can receive signals from directions other than the one the aerial is pointing.
Checking that your aerial is intact with no missing elements, is pointing in the correct direction (bearing 314 degrees - NW at your locale) with the rods (or squashed Xs) vertical.
The best thing to do will be to do a Manual retune for Kilvey Hill as follows - first, unplug the aerial and do a full automatic retune. This should clear all previous (and incorrect) tuning.
Plug the aerial back in, and in the TV's tuning section, do a manual for each UHF channel -
For Kilvey Hill it's C21, C24, C27, for the PSB1/BBCA, PSB2/D3&4, PSB3/BBCB HD multiplexes and C25, C22, & C28 for the COM4/SDN, COM5/ArqA & COM6/ArqB multiplexes, also C34 for the Local (Swansea) multiplex.
(C means UHF channel).
You may have to repeat that procedure a few times whilst/if interfering conditions persist over the weekend which some predictions suggest.
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Monday, 30 January 2023
Transmitter engineering
2:09 PM
2:09 PM
KILVEY HILL transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 30 Jan 10:45. . FM: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 30 Jan 10:08. . [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
8:20 PM
8:20 PM
KILVEY HILL transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 30 Jan 10:45 until 30 Jan 14:46. . FM: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 30 Jan 10:08 until 30 Jan 14:46. . [BBC]
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Tuesday, 31 January 2023
Transmitter engineering
11:09 AM
11:09 AM
KILVEY HILL transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 30 Jan 10:45 until 30 Jan 14:46. Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 30 Jan 10:03. . FM: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 31 Jan 10:01. Slightly [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
5:20 PM
5:20 PM
KILVEY HILL transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 30 Jan 10:45 until 30 Jan 14:46. Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 30 Jan 10:03 until 31 Jan 13:46. . FM: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 31 J [BBC]
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Wednesday, 1 February 2023
Transmitter engineering
11:09 AM
11:09 AM
KILVEY HILL transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 1 Feb 10:01. Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 30 Jan 10:45 until 30 Jan 14:46. Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 30 Jan 10:03 until 31 Jan 13:4 [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
11:09 AM
11:09 AM
KILVEY HILL transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 1 Feb 10:01. Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 30 Jan 10:45 until 30 Jan 14:46. Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 30 Jan 10:03 until 31 Jan 13:4 [BBC]
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Thursday, 2 February 2023
Transmitter engineering
11:09 AM
11:09 AM
KILVEY HILL transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 2 Feb 10:03. . FM: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 2 Feb 10:03. . [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
5:09 PM
5:09 PM
KILVEY HILL transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 2 Feb 10:03 until 2 Feb 15:12. . FM: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 2 Feb 10:03 until 2 Feb 15:12. . [BBC]
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Friday, 10 March 2023
Transmitter engineering
11:08 AM
11:08 AM
KILVEY HILL transmitter - DAB: Slightly reduced power due to essential engineering from 8 Mar 10:28 until 8 Mar 10:50. . [BBC]
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