Kilvey Hill
Kilvey Hill is a hill to the east of Swansea city centre. The top of Kilvey Hill enjoys panoramic views of Swansea city centre, Swansea Docks, Swansea Bay and Bon-y-maen.
There are a number of residential areas dotted around the base of the hill. At the top of the hill is a transmission station. The central belt of the hill consists of woodland and open grassland. The hill is used to host a number of mountain biking events.
Transmitters
At the hill's peak a large range of digital and analogue transmitters can be seen, although due to their sheer size these can also be seen from ground level. These transmitters provide services for analogue and digital terrestrial television and for analogue and digital radio services. It also features mobile phone masts from all five major UK networks including O2, Orange, 3, Vodafone and T-Mobile. The hill's transmitters cater for the entire network of digital terrestrial and digital radio subscribers in the city and county of Swansea, and possibly even further. The transmission station is owned and operated by National Grid Wireless.
Freeview digital terrestrial TV is already available from this transmitter. Digital Switchover will commence on Monday 1st March 2010 and will be complete on Tuesday 30th March 2010. After the switchover process, analogue channels will no longer be available and the Freeview power will be increased from 383W ERP to 2000W ERP, A factor of 5.
The only road access to the summit of the hill suitable for vehicles is via a steep concrete road which leads up to the summit from the village of Bon-y-maen.
Broadcast channels listed by frequency
- Analogue Radio (VHF FM)
- 89.5 MHz BBC Radio 2
- 91.7 MHz BBC Radio 3
- 93.9 MHz BBC Radio Wales
- 94.6 MHz BBC Radio 4
- 96.4 MHz The Wave
- 99.1 MHz BBC Radio 1
- 101.3 MHz Classic FM
- 102.1 MHz Swansea Bay Radio[1]
- 104.2 MHz BBC Radio Cymru
- 106.0 MHz Real Radio
- 107.3 MHz Xfm South Wales
- Digital Radio (DAB)
- Digital One
- Block 12A: 223.936MHz - BBC
- Block 12C: 227.36 MHz - MXR South Wales & Severn Estuary
- Analogue Television
- UHF 23 (490 MHz) - ITV1
- UHF 26 (514 MHz) - BBC Two Wales
- UHF 29 (538 MHz) - S4C
- UHF 33 (570 MHz) - BBC One Wales
- UHF 35 (586 MHz) - Five
- Digital Television
References
- ^ "National Grid Wireless wins 102.1 Swansea Bay Radio contract". National Grid Wireless. 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-31.