Mast height 15 metres (48 ft) Built 1966 | Grid reference SO030299 | |
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The Brecon VHF FM transmitting station was originally built by the BBC in 1965 as a relay for VHF FM radio. It consists of a pair of 15 m wooden telegraph poles - one carrying the transmitting antennas, and the other carrying receiving aerials pointed at Wenvoe transmitting station near Cardiff. These stand on land at Pencrug Farm, about 244 m above sea level.
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The station does not radiate television, and never did. TV for the area comes from a different site at Brecon transmitting station a few km to the east.
20 December 1965 - January 1977
As built, the transmitter re-radiated Wenvoe's three original FM transmissions with horizontal polarisation and with a radiation pattern favouring the town of Brecon.
January 1977 - 1989
The launch of Radio Cymru saw the replacement across Wales of the English-language Radio 4 Wales service.
1989 - present
Bandplan changes allowed more frequencies in Band II, Radio 1 gained its own frequency and National Radio 4 could be transmitted. About this time, the transmitting aerials were changed to the present configuration, radiating a slant-polarisation signal in a fairly omnidirectional pattern using a Lindenblad Array