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 not one of the extended Freeview HD (COM7 and COM8) transmitters, it does not provide these high definition (HD) channels: .
If you want to watch these HD channels, either use Freesat HD, or move your TV aerial must point to one of the 30 Full Freeview HD transmitters. For more information see the want to know which transmitters will carry extra Freeview HD? 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)
Are you trying to watch these 0 Freeview HD channels?
The Kilvey Hill (Swansea, Wales) mast is not one of the extended Freeview HD (COM7 and COM8) transmitters, it does not provide these high definition (HD) channels: .
If you want to watch these HD channels, either use Freesat HD, or move your TV aerial must point to one of the 30 Full Freeview HD transmitters. For more information see the want to know which transmitters will carry extra Freeview HD? 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 withheldMonday, 22 July 2019
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Chris.SE8:43 PM
regis:
Which channels are you missing? Also is the aerial rods (or x's) vertical or horizontal? And which way is it pointing (roughly) ie. N or SW or whatever?
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Chris.SE8:51 PM
Preece J:
John best to have a read Freeview modes - a simplified explanation | free and easy
If you look at the predicted reception for your postcode at Digital UK - Coverage checker and then hover your mouse over each UHF channel number, it will provide details.
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nobody10:00 PM
Preece J: There is a trade-off between available capacity and the amount of error correction.
The more error correction there is, the easier it is to get the multiplex without error, but at the cost of available capacity.
The PSBs, BBCA and D3&4, have 1/3 of the transmitted data devoted to error correction, leaving 2/3 for actual services.
The COMs ARQA, ARQB and SDN have 1/4 of the transmitted data devoted to error correction, leaving 3/4 for actual services.
So, for example, BBCA has an available capacity of 24 Mbps (Mega bits per second) while SDN has 27 Mbps.
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Michael 10:36 PM
Spanner + works : you get my drift... The prediction sites are not infallible. They cannot include very local factors, such as buildings, hills, estuaries etc. What they tell me I should receive, I don't, or unsatisfactorily. What they don't list is what I receive :-) Noting down postcodes further away and inserting them into the prediction boxes can result in interesting alternative predictions - and channels worth trying. Where more than one transmitter is in range, auto-tuning can be tortuous. Manual tuning is preferable, but in many receivers well hidden and not user-friendly. Conspiration theorists claim NASA didn't land on the moon; others claim the inimical DTT system intends to prepare us for TV by subscription via 5G. Must all be rubbish, surely???
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Friday, 16 August 2019
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StevensOnln16:19 PM
Kathryn: It is being reported elsewhere that due to a technical fault, BBC One is unable to broadcast Wales Today. They seem to have decided to replace it with Newsline from BBC One Northern Ireland, rather than the red screen or BBC News channel. This is not a transmitter or equipment fault, do not attempt to retune.
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Wednesday, 21 August 2019
Transmitter engineering
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KILVEY HILL transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 10:50 today to 11:04 today. [BBC]
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Thursday, 22 August 2019
Transmitter engineering
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KILVEY HILL transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 10:50 yesterday to 11:04 yesterday. [BBC]
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Friday, 23 August 2019
Transmitter engineering
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KILVEY HILL transmitter - Freeview: HD Digital TV Off Air from 10:50 on 21 Aug to 11:04 on 21 Aug. [BBC]
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Saturday, 31 August 2019
Transmitter engineering
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KILVEY HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 21:04 today to 21:21 today. [BBC]
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