:Caerhendy transmitting station
{{Infobox UK Transmitter |
|name = Caerhendy
|image =
|map_name = Wales Neath Port Talbot
|coordinates = {{coord|51.606292|-3.773067|type:landmark_region:GB|display=inline}}
|height = {{convert|10|m|ft|0}}
|gridref = SS772912
|built = 1980s
|demolished = 2010
|collapsed =
|relay = Wenvoe
|BBC = BBC Wales
|ITV = ITV Cymru Wales
}}
The Caerhendy television relay station was sited at Caerhendy in the Afan Valley, a few kilometres north of Junction 40 on the M4 motorway at Port Talbot. It was originally built in the 1980s as a fill-in relay for UHF analogue television. It was sited at the clubhouse of the soccer ground at Ynys Park and consisted of a mere 3 m aluminium mast carrying a vertically stacked yagi array. The transmitter served about 50 houses in Caerhendy, about 500 m across the valley to the east, which for reasons of geography couldn't get a signal from Mynydd Emroch transmitter just to the south.
Alltwen transmitter re-radiated a signal received off-air from Cwmafan about 2 km farther to the northeast, itself a relay of Wenvoe. It was possibly the lowest ERP officially provided TV relay in the UK, radiating just 0.5 W on each of its four UHF channels.
When it came, the digital switchover process rendered Caerhendy redundant. It is no longer in service.
Channels listed by frequency
=Analogue television=
==1980s - March 2010==
class="wikitable sortable"
!{{no2}}Frequency !{{no2}}UHF !{{no2}}kW !{{no2}}Service |
{{UK System I|ch=21}}
|21 |0.0005 |
{{UK System I|ch=24}}
|24 |0.0005 |
{{UK System I|ch=27}}
|27 |0.0005 |
{{UK System I|ch=31}}
|31 |0.0005 |S4C |
References
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External links
- [http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/caerhendy.php The Transmission Gallery: Caerhendy]
- [http://www.ukfree.tv/txdetail.php?a=SS772912 UKFree: Caerhendy TV transmitter]
{{Transmitter sites in Wales}}
{{Wenvoe UHF 625-line Transmitter Group}}
{{Television transmitters in the UK}}