Kilvey Hill is the site which serves Swansea and the surrounding area. These photos were taken by David Baker in 1994. He says:
I don't know if these will be of any interest to you. These are pictures I took of the Kilvey Hill transmitters back in August 1994, before the addition of DTT, DAB, Radio Wales, Real Radio and various utilities.
Classic FM on 101.3MHz had only recently been added to the site at this time, I remember it bleeding all over reception of the newly introduced 'Galaxy 101' from Mendip, which was very weak around the Neath / Swansea area anyway.
Kilvey Hill was originally a BBC landlord site built in 1967 primarily to provide UHF TV to about 260,000 people in the Swansea area. By population, Kilvey Hill is the largest UHF relay station in the UK and serves a greater number of people than many UHF main stations. |
