On the 25th of May 2023 several of our members were lucky enough to be able to visit the moel-y-parc transmitter. Being the UHF main station that serves the north-eastern sector of Wales moel-y-parc is located on a remote and highly elevated site in the Clwydian Mountain Range. Their antenna is some 230m tall but due to its elevated ground location of 344m above sea level the antenna actually reaches a staggering 574m above sea level.
The principal service area of this transmitter covers a radius of between just 15-20 miles. Locations within this area include Flint, Holywell, Mold, Denbigh and Wrexham, as well as Prestatyn, Rhyl and Colwyn Bay on the North Wales coastline. However, due mainly to the high elevation of the transmission site, signals from this station overlap significantly towards the east and north-east, producing an actual transmission radius of 50-60 miles in these directions giving a much wider coverage than it is intended to serve.
