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.
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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.
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?
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/bbc-wales-today.jpg)
BBC Wales Today 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 2YQ, 50km east-southeast (108°)
to BBC Wales region - 206 masts.
![regional news image](/styles/images/regionalnews/302x152/itv-cymru-wales.jpg)
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 withheldMonday, 19 January 2015
Transmitter engineering
7:31 PM
7:31 PM
KILVEY HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 10:10 today to 11:38 today. [BBC]
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Tuesday, 20 January 2015
Transmitter engineering
4:32 AM
4:32 AM
KILVEY HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 10:10 yesterday to 11:38 yesterday. [BBC]
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Wednesday, 21 January 2015
Transmitter engineering
4:31 AM
4:31 AM
KILVEY HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 10:10 on 19 Jan to 11:38 on 19 Jan. [BBC]
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Pasc5:45 PM
Could you please provide a list, in Word or pdf, of TV channels available from Kilvey.
I would like all/only English channels, are these available please
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MikeB7:01 PM
Pasc: If you bothered to read the page above, it would tell you....
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Thursday, 5 February 2015
Transmitter engineering
1:32 PM
1:32 PM
KILVEY HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 07:54 today to 08:13 today. [BBC]
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Thursday, 9 April 2015
Transmitter engineering
4:31 AM
4:31 AM
KILVEY HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 01:07 on 01 Apr. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
7:30 AM
7:30 AM
KILVEY HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 01:07 on 01 Apr to 04:00 today. [BBC]
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Transmitter engineering
1:30 PM
1:30 PM
KILVEY HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 01:07 today to 04:00 today. [BBC]
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Friday, 10 April 2015
Transmitter engineering
4:31 AM
4:31 AM
KILVEY HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 01:07 yesterday to 04:00 yesterday. [BBC]
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