Freeview Light on the Wrexham Rhos (Wrexham, Wales) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Wrexham Rhos (Wrexham, Wales) transmitter which serves 29,000 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.
Are there any planned engineering works or unexpected transmitter faults on the Wrexham Rhos (Wrexham, Wales) mast?
WREXHAM RHOS transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 19 Nov 13:26 until 19 Nov 15:20. . 
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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.
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
The Wrexham Rhos (Wrexham, Wales) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.
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 Wrexham Rhos 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 | C28 (530.0MHz) | 257m | DTG- | 80W |
 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 | C22 (482.0MHz) | 257m | DTG- | 80W |
 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), 71 That’s 60s, | |||||
| PSB3 BBCB | V max | C25 (506.0MHz) | 257m | DTG- | 80W |
 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 | |||||
Are you trying to watch these 44 Freeview channels?
The Wrexham Rhos (Wrexham, Wales) mast is a public service broadcasting (PSB) transmitter, it does not provide these commercial (COM) channels: U&Yesterday, 4seven, 5Action, 5STAR, 5USA, Al Jazeera Eng, Al Jazeera English, Blaze, Blaze +1, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, DMAX, E4 Extra, YAAAS!, Film4 +1, Food Network, FRANCE 24 (in English), GREAT! action, GREAT! christmas, GREAT! movies, GREAT! romance mix, HGTV, HobbyMaker, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, Legend, PBS America, Quest +1, Quest Red, Really, Sky Mix, Sky News, Talking Pictures TV, That's 90s, That's TV 2, Together TV, TRUE CRIME, TRUE CRIME XTRA, U&Dave, U&Dave ja vu, U&Drama +1, U&W.
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 Wrexham Rhos transmitter?
BBC Wales Today 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 2YQ, 176km south (185°)
to BBC Wales region - 206 masts.
ITV Cymru Wales 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 6XJ, 180km south (186°)
to ITV Wales region - 206 masts.
How will the Wrexham Rhos (Wrexham, Wales) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2009 | 2009-13 | 31 Mar 2019- | |||||
| K T | K T | K T | A K T | A K T | |||||
| C22 | D3+4 | D3+4 | |||||||
| C25 | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | BBCB | BBCB | ||||
| C28 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBCA | BBCA | ||||
| C32 | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ||||||
| C39 | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves |
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 28 Oct 09 and 25 Nov 09.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 200W | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-4dB) 80W |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Moel-Y-Parc transmitter area
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Tuesday, 9 October 2012
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Philip Osborne12:31 PM
Wrexham
Hi,
I live in Rhos and I currently use a Sky dish to receive TV because, when I first moved in, it was difficult to receive a good Freeview signal. However, since then the Digital Switchover has been completed in my area and I'm thinking of getting YouView from TalkTalk and they require that I have an aerial. I have a couple of questions:
1. From where I live, Wrexham-Rhos transmitter and Winter Hill transmitter are both in roughly the same direction so could I pick up both signals on the same aerial?
2. I live in a first floor flat with one other flat above me, the front of my flat is on the correct side to face the transmitter, could I put my aerial on the front of my building rather than the roof? Is the signal in my area known to be strong enough to use an indoor or window-mounted aerial?
3. What do you think of multi-directional aerials like the Philex Digidome? Do they work?
Thanks for any advice or help you can offer.
Phil
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Philip's: mapP's Freeview map terrainP's terrain plot wavesP's frequency data P's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Philip Osborne: Wrexham Rhos is vertically polarised and Winter Hill is horizontally polarised so unfortunately a single aerial won't work for both.
Try a set-top aerial on each transmitter, manually tuning if possible, and definately confirming that you are watching the output of the transmitter you are testing. I have one of these Labgear aerials for use when a fixed aerial isn't available (other suppliers and models are available):
Set Top Aerial Labgear | eBay
I presume that you already know that Wrexham Rhos is Freeview Lite/PSB-only and that Winter Hill is a full-service transmitter and that this is the reason you wish to be able to receive from both so as to allow you to watch Welsh regional (PSB) programming and the Commercial (COM) channels only available from full-service transmitters.
For all things aerials, see ATV's site A.T.V (Aerials And Television) TV Aerial, DAB Aerial, FM Aerial.
As a non-professional, I would stick with a directional polarised aerial. An aerial's directivity (i.e. gain or sensitivity in one direction) is as the expense of that in others. This is the reason I would stick with a directional aerial.
Also, the gain of yagi aerials slopes down on lower UHF channels/frequencies. These traces illustrate the point:
A.T.V (Aerials And Television) TV Aerial, DAB Aerial, FM Aerial. gaincurves.html
In particular (and this is why I make the point), wideband aerials which are a greater compromise than group ones, are low on group A channels (see the wideband traces). Thus, a high-gain wideband aerial will have a "high" gain on higher channels, but group A ones will not be so. So don't be taken in by buying a wideband yagi aerial for Wrexham Rhos in particular as it uses group A channels.
Log periodic aerials are natively wideband but have a much flatter response and are therefore OK for Group A channels but they don't have as much gain as higher gain yagis.
See:
A.T.V (Aerials And Television) TV Aerial, DAB Aerial, FM Aerial. winterhilltx.html
A diplexer can combine the feeds from two aerials, providing the channels used allow, which for Winter Hill and Wrexham Rhos they are:
A.T.V (Aerials And Television) TV Aerial, DAB Aerial, FM Aerial. onlinesplittersandamps.html#TVTVdiplexers
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Thursday, 11 April 2013
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SARAH9:45 AM
I've lost all bbc channels will I need to retune my freeview?
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Tuesday, 3 December 2013
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Mat2:31 PM
Wrexham
Been experiencing very poor reception especially on S4C. Unwatchable at times. Signal strength ok around 79-80% but signal quality around 40-50% or lower. BBC 1 & 2 Wales are okay.
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Mat's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Tuesday, 19 November 2024
Transmitter engineering
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WREXHAM RHOS transmitter - DAB: Off the air due to a fault from 19 Nov 13:26 until 19 Nov 15:20. . [BBC]
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