Talk:Wrexham-Rhos transmitting station

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I've heard it called "The Wand" by many locals. Would it be "right" to put that in somewhere? Born Acorn 20:24, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've never heard that expression - people round here call it "The Welsh"! Marbles333 10:54, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Transmitting station?

The term "transmitting station" is usually used for the big high-power sites. I think a tiddler like this would more typically be called a "relay station". --Harumphy (talk) 16:32, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's kind of in the middle this one, it's certainly not high power, but at 200W it's definitely not a tiddler either. A tidder would be Ferryside or Flint. Furthermore, not all of its services are relayed, such as that for MFM (at 1.4 kW), so relay wouldn't necessarliy be appropriate either. I generally thought that transmitting station could be applied to any of these (even Ferryside!), but if you're particularly minded to change it back, then I wouldn't massively object. In a broader context, I'm wondering whether the whole article should be deleted for lack of notability. I don't see much of a difference between this and Henley which was deleted.Chillysnow (talk) 17:56, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I thought we had weeded out the non-notable relay stations some time ago. There was a determined cabal of mast-article-deleters and I think the compromise we reached with them was to keep the UHF main stations but delete the relays. If the relays creep back in then we could have the same problem again. If this is just a bog-standard relay station then I think it should go. --Harumphy (talk) 18:03, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It is pretty bog standard, there are about 200 stations in the country that are more powerful, and I can't see that it's got anything particularly notable. The same could apply to the Chesterfield and Tapton Hill articles incidentally (although these are both more powerful).Chillysnow (talk) 22:34, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The transmitter is not particularly remarkable technically. From a cultural and political point of view it is noteworthy in that it provides Welsh TV to a fairly large Welsh town that could otherwise receive only English TV (and in which a large part of the population seem to have been content with that situation). Therefore it would be interesting to have some information on what pressure was exerted to have the transmitter established. Rugxulo (talk) 20:40, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]