Burry Port television relay station

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Burry Port
Burry Port television relay station is located in Carmarthenshire
Burry Port
Burry Port
Kilvey Hill
Kilvey Hill
Mast height17 metres (56 ft)
Coordinates51°41′41″N 4°14′41″W / 51.6948°N 4.2448°W / 51.6948; -4.2448Coordinates: 51°41′41″N 4°14′41″W / 51.6948°N 4.2448°W / 51.6948; -4.2448
Grid referenceSN449019
Built1983
Relay ofKilvey Hill
BBC regionBBC Wales
ITV regionITV Wales

The Burry Port television relay station was originally built in Spring 1983[1] as a relay for UHF analogue colour television. It consists of a 17 m self-supporting lattice mast standing on a hillside which is itself about 90 m above sea level. Currently, the transmitters cater for most of the digital terrestrial TV subscribers in the low-lying coastal town of Burry Port. The transmission station is owned and operated by Arqiva.

Burry Port transmitter re-radiates the signal received off-air from Kilvey Hill about 20 km to the east. When it came, the digital switchover process for Burry Port duplicated the timing at the parent station, with the first stage taking place on Wednesday 12 August 2009 and the second stage was completed on Wednesday 9 September 2009, with the Kilvey Hill transmitter-group becoming the first in Wales to complete digital switchover. After the switchover process, analogue channels had ceased broadcasting permanently and the Freeview digital TV services were radiated at an ERP of 2 W each.[2]

Channels listed by frequency[]

Analogue television[]

3 June 1983 - 12 August 2009[]

Burry Port (being in Wales) transmitted the S4C variant of the UK's Channel 4.

Frequency UHF kW Service
735.25 MHz 54 0.003 S4C
767.25 MHz 58 0.003 BBC One Wales
791.25 MHz 61 0.003 ITV1 Wales (HTV Wales until 2002)
815.25 MHz 64 0.003 BBC Two Wales

Analogue and digital television[]

12 August 2009 - 9 September 2009[]

The UK's digital switchover commenced at Kilvey Hill (and therefore at Burry Port and all its other relays) on 12 August 2009. Analogue BBC Two Wales on channel 64 was first to close, and ITV1 Wales was moved from channel 61 to channel 64 for its last month of service. Channel 61 was replaced by the new digital BBC A mux which started up in 64-QAM and at full power (i.e. 2 W).

Frequency UHF kW Service System
735.25 MHz 54 0.003 S4C PAL System I
767.25 MHz 58 0.003 BBC One Wales PAL System I
794.000 MHz 61 0.002 BBC A DVB-T
815.25 MHz 64 0.003 ITV1 Wales PAL System I

Digital television[]

9 September 2009 - present[]

The remaining analogue TV services were closed down and the digital multiplexes took over the original analogue channels.

Frequency UHF kW Operator
738.000 MHz 54 0.002 BBC B
770.000 MHz 58 0.002 Digital 3&4
794.000 MHz 61 0.002 BBC A

13 March 2013[]

OFCOM have announced that channel 61 is also to be cleared so as to make space for future 4G mobile phone services.[3][4] Burry Port's "BBC A" multiplex will therefore be moved from channel 61 to channel 49.[5]

Frequency UHF kW Operator
698.000 MHz 49 0.002 BBC A
738.000 MHz 54 0.002 BBC B
770.000 MHz 58 0.002 Digital 3&4
See also: List of digital terrestrial television channels (UK)

References[]

  1. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-01-06. Retrieved 2012-04-02.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ "Freeview on Burry Port TV transmitter". ukfree.tv. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
  3. ^ Butterworth, Brian. "4G changes to relay transmitters - list of C61 and C62 shifts". ukfree.tv. Archived from the original on 2012-05-26.
  4. ^ Bryant, Martin (2012-02-15). "EU States Must Allow 4G on Analogue TV Spectrum". TNW | Eu. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
  5. ^ "Digital UK confirms further Freeview 4G clearance retune dates for South Wales". digital.com. October 31, 2012. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.

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