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51.629,-3.920 or 51°37'45"N 3°55'12"W

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4G at 800MHz (at800) Freeview reception issues

Tests now show that SOME households that use masthead amplifiers (and some communal aerial systems) AND are in poor signal areas AND that are very close to a 4G phone mast MAY have their Freeview service disturbed: C22: ArqA, C23: BBCA
See Expecting 4G interference? Tests now show that you have a one in 300 chance.

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. Click to recheck

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The symbol shows the location of the Kilvey Hill (Swansea, Wales) transmitter which serves 120,000 homes.

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Is the transmitter output the same in all directions?

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What do the colours on the map mean?

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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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	Aerial position	Frequency	Height	Mode	Watts
PSB1 BBCA	vertical max	C23 (490.0MHz)	243m	64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	2,000W
	1 BBC One Wales, 2 BBC Two Wales, 7 BBC Three, 9 BBC Four, 70 CBBC Channel, 71 CBeebies, 80 BBC News, 81 BBC Parliament, 301 BBC Red Button 1, plus 14 others
PSB2 D3+4	vertical max	C26 (514.0MHz)	243m	64QAM 8K 2/3 24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	2,000W
	3 ITV (Wales), 4 S4C, 5 Channel 5 Part Network ads, 6 ITV 2, 8 Channel 4 South ads, 13 Channel 4+1 South ads, 14 More 4, 33 ITV +1 (Wales),
PSB3 BBCB	vertical max	C29 (538.0MHz)	243m	256QAM 32KE 2/3 40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4	2,000W
	101 BBC One HD Wales, 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 ITV HD (ITV Central West), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, 303 BBC Red Button HD, plus 1 others 232 The Space,
COM4 SDN	vertical max	C25 (506.0MHz)	243m	64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	2,000W
	10 ITV 3, 20 G.O.L.D. (not free), 25 Dave ja vu, 26 Home (not free), 27 ITV 2 +1, 28 E4, 30 5, 31 5USA, 34 ESPN UK (not free*), 38 Quest, 39 The Zone, 44 Channel 5 +1, 72 CITV, plus 21 others
COM5 ArqA	vertical max	C22 (482.0MHz)	243m	64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	2,000W
	11 PICK TV, 12 Dave, 17 Really, 29 E4+1, 32 Movie Mix, 46 Challenge, 48 Food Network, 82 Sky News, 87 Community Channel, 302 BBC Red Button 2, plus 9 others
COM6 ArqB	vertical max	C28 (530.0MHz)	243m	64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2	2,000W
	15 Film 4, 18 4Music, 19 Yesterday, 21 VIVA, 24 ITV 4, 41 Sky Sports 1 (not free), 42 Sky Sports 2 (not free), 47 4seven, 83 Al Jazeera English, 85 RT English , plus 22 others

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
to BBC Wales region - 206 masts.

ITV Cymru Wales 1.2m homes 4.7%
from Cardiff CF5 6XJ, 49km east-southeast
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?

	years	1950s~85	1984-97	1997-98	1998-2009	2009-13	2013-18	2013-18
	aerial group	VHF	A K	A K	A K	A K	A K	A K
	C2	BBCtv
	C21				C
	C22				-2	ArqA	ArqA	ArqA
	C23		ITV	ITV	ITV	BBCA	BBCA	BBCA
	C25				-1	SDN	SDN	SDN
	C26		BBC2	BBC2	BBC2	D3+4	D3+4	D3+4
	C28				-A	ArqB	ArqB	ArqB
	C29		C4	C4	C4	BBCB	BBCB	BBCB
	C30							local
600	C31				-D
	C32				-B
	C33		BBC1	BBC1	BBC1
	C35			C5	C5

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green background for transmission frequencies

lilac background for power levels in watts

800MHz band: 4G mobile to start in 2013

700MHz band: possible 4G in 2019 more

600MHz band: new or moved digital TV services more

Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W
Italics for analogue, digital switchover was Wednesdays 12th August and 9th September 2009.

Ofcom have projected that a local television service for Swansea including Llanelli could use an Interleaved Frequency on the Kilvey Hill transmitter using C30

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

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.

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Transmitter engineering
Sunday 17 February 2013 10:31AM

KILVEY HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 10:01 on 15 Feb to 11:21 on 15 Feb. [BBC]

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Paul White
Thursday 4 April 2013 10:33AM Bridgend

Hi, Ive just put up a new antenna 3/4 the way up the house with a pretty good line of sight to Kilvey Hill in Swansea. However I keep getting channel no's 3,8,11 and a few others pixelating and breaking down. My reception is 48% and cant get it any better. Most of my other channels are perfectly watchable but im also not getting the HD channels that are transmitted from here. Ive put the same new antenna on a mates house in exactly the same position and its perfect with a 46%signal including the HD channels. has anyone any idea as to why the big difference between the two antenna locations? Thanks for your help in advance.

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Michael
Thursday 4 April 2013 2:54PM

Paul White: Looking at the Digital UK tradeview link to the side of your post, it seems like Carmel is predicted to give you a better signal than Kilvey Hill. So presuming you didn't put up a group A aerial, I would try and see what kind of signal Carmel's UHF channels give you by doing a manual retune.

HD channels depend on the equipment rather than the aerial, so if you don't have Freeview HD then you won't pick them up.

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Paul White
Thursday 4 April 2013 8:15PM Bridgend

To Michael. thank you for your help earlier, I re adjusted the antenna to the Carmel antenna and everything is now fine.

Thanks for your help.

Paul

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Alan Thomas
Saturday 20 April 2013 10:29AM

Why do Relay T.V. Transmitters not have the full programme list of a Main Transmitter?

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KMJ,Derby
Saturday 20 April 2013 10:42AM

Alan Thomas: The simple answer is transmission costs. To equip most of the relay sites with transmitters for the COM muxes would have roughly doubled the cost of providing the service but only served a further 8% of the population. Cosequently the COM mux owners declined to add the service to additional masts when they were invited to do so. A similar situation exists on radio, with Classic FM not being transmitted from smaller relay sites.

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Transmitter engineering
Friday 10 May 2013 4:31PM

KILVEY HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 12:56 today to 13:52 today. [BBC]

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Transmitter engineering
Friday 10 May 2013 4:31PM

KILVEY HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 12:56 today to 13:52 today. [BBC]

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Transmitter engineering
Saturday 11 May 2013 4:32AM

KILVEY HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 12:56 yesterday to 13:52 yesterday. [BBC]

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Transmitter engineering
Saturday 11 May 2013 4:32AM

KILVEY HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 12:56 yesterday to 13:52 yesterday. [BBC]

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Transmitter engineering
Sunday 12 May 2013 4:32AM

KILVEY HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 12:56 on 10 May to 13:52 on 10 May. [BBC]

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Transmitter engineering
Sunday 12 May 2013 11:41AM

KILVEY HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 12:56 on 10 May to 13:52 on 10 May. [BBC]

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Transmitter engineering
Wednesday 5 June 2013 4:31AM

KILVEY HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 22:13 yesterday to 22:23 yesterday. [BBC]

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Transmitter engineering
Thursday 6 June 2013 4:31AM

KILVEY HILL transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 22:13 on 04 Jun to 22:23 on 04 Jun. [BBC]

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