Wrexham-Rhos transmitting station
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The Wrexham-Rhos transmitting station is a digital television relay of Moel-y-Parc, and forms part of the Wales television region. Despite its name, the station is situated in Moss Village and serves the city of Wrexham, the northern area of Wrexham County Borough and south-western Flintshire. It is a free-standing lattice tower structure serving around 85,000 homes which are unable to receive broadcasts from Moel-y-Parc due to Hope Mountain.
This area is traditionally served by
The DAB digital radio transmitter on the site was switched on in 2013.[3] It had a temporary outage in 2017.[4]
Services available
Analogue television
1977 - 1 November 1982
Frequency | UHF | kW | Service |
---|---|---|---|
615.25 MHz | 39 | 0.2 | BBC1 Wales |
839.25 MHz | 67 | 0.4 | HTV Wales
|
1 November 1982 - 30 March 1997
Frequency | UHF | kW | Service |
---|---|---|---|
615.25 MHz | 39 | 0.2 | BBC1 Wales |
839.25 MHz | 67 | 0.4 | S4C |
30 March 1997 - 1999
Frequency | UHF | kW | Service |
---|---|---|---|
559.25 MHz | 32 | 0.2 | HTV Wales |
615.25 MHz | 39 | 0.2 | BBC1 Wales |
839.25 MHz | 67 | 0.4 | S4C |
1999 - 2000
Frequency | UHF | kW | Service |
---|---|---|---|
527.25 MHz | 28 | 0.2 | BBC2 Wales
|
559.25 MHz | 32 | 0.2 | HTV Wales |
615.25 MHz | 39 | 0.2 | BBC1 Wales
|
839.25 MHz | 67 | 0.4 | S4C |
2000 - 28 October 2009
Prior to analogue switch-off, Wrexham-Rhos broadcast four of the five national terrestrial stations. Channels 1 to 3 were broadcast at 200 W
Frequency | UHF | kW | Service |
---|---|---|---|
503.25 MHz | 25 | 0.4 | S4C |
527.25 MHz | 28 | 0.2 | BBC2 Wales
|
559.25 MHz | 32 | 0.2 | HTV Wales |
615.25 MHz | 39 | 0.2 | BBC1 Wales
|
Analogue and digital television
28 October 2009 - 25 November 2009
Frequency | UHF | kW | Service | System |
---|---|---|---|---|
503.25 MHz | 25 | 0.4 | S4C | PAL System I |
527.25 MHz | 28 | 0.08 | BBC A | DVB-T |
559.25 MHz | 32 | 0.2 | HTV Wales | PAL System I |
615.25 MHz | 39 | 0.2 | BBC1 Wales
|
PAL System I |
Digital television
25 November 2009 - present
At present, the station broadcasts three of the six national digital terrestrial television multiplexes on the "Freeview Lite" service. The station switched over to digital transmissions from analogue throughout November 2009, and remaining analogue services ceased at midnight on 25 November 2009. BBC A and Digital 3&4 broadcast using
.Frequency | UHF | kW | Operator |
---|---|---|---|
482.000 MHz | 22 | 0.08 | Digital 3&4 |
506.000 MHz | 25 | 0.08 | BBC B |
530.000 MHz | 28 | 0.08 | BBC A |
Analogue radio (FM VHF)
Frequency | kW | Service |
---|---|---|
88.0 MHz | 1.4 | Heart North and Mid Wales |
95.4 MHz | 0.7 | BBC Radio Wales |
103.4 MHz | 1.4 | Capital North West and Wales
|
Digital radio (DAB)
Frequency | Block | kw | Operator |
---|---|---|---|
215.072 MHz | 10D | 3kW | MuxCo North East Wales & West Cheshire †
|
On air date March 2013[5]
See also
References
- ^ "mb21 - The Transmission Gallery". tx.mb21.co.uk.
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20070930034741/http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/archive/itc/uploads/HTV_APR_text.doc ITC: WALES AND THE WEST OF ENGLAND: HTV (archived copy from Internet Archive)
- ^ "Digital radio: More stations for north east Wales listeners". BBC News. 2013-04-18. Retrieved 2023-04-06.
- ^ "Rhos transmitter outage takes some Sunday television off air". Wrexham.com. Retrieved 2023-04-06.
- ^ Radio Listeners Guide 2010