Time passes, one might expect improvement but it sounds like Gower where we got everything clear as a bell from North Devon and, to watch S4C or listen to Radio Cymru, you had to go to North Devon!
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Is your mobile phone signal reasonably good? You could stream Radio Cymru via the tunein app on your phone, possibly thence to your car sound system via bluetooth?
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good idea. Canāt really do that yet though - will have to upgrade my phone account, because ran out of data allowance last week, with ten days to go and car radio isnāt up to it - also new car is a few years away i think. When Iām rich, Iāll probably do it though. One day hopefully, but being a fluent Welsh speaker is probably a more achievable goal in the short term.
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ā¦is pricelessā¦
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Listening to Radio Cymru FM quite clearly sat here in my car in Bamber Bridge, Preston. Not as far from Wales as Belper in Derbyshire, but quite impressive I think.
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Back in terrestrial days, I could pick up S4C in Manchester. You had to have your antennae (remember them) pointed the right way!
I also used to get Radio Wales in London (on MW with a choddy aerial mind)
This digital stuff is rubbish!
In case anyone is unaware of it, S4C in-UK-but-outside-Wales can be found on
Virgin TV ā 166
Freesat - 120
Sky ā 134
and online on the S4C website
ā¦ but unfortunately not on Freeview
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And Radio Cymru via WiFi, BBC Media Player is available in China. Just donāt try to write on the forum at the same time with only 3 bars of WiFi available.
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Perhaps Chromecast would be useful to anyone who has a smartphone but would rather watch S4C on TV?
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Easier said than done. The S4C app doesnāt support chromecast yet (it was last updated on Android in 2015). Technically you should be able to cast via the Chrome browser on your phone to your chromecast but Iām not sure itās possible in the same way as with a pc browser. Then thereās the possible way of just casting your phone screen to your chromecast, but this involves leaving your screen on all the while you are casting, or you lose the picture.
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Interesting considerations @Colin Dale. I havenāt much interest in using one myself. Just put the thought out there since I donāt think that it had been mentioned and may be useful to some who have reception problems. Iām quite happy to watch programmes on my phone.
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Chromecast works with the BBC iPlayer app which AFAIK carries S4C.
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Iām in Manchester, on digital TV. When I programme my TV I have to choose an area manually, and then it shows me those channels, and it doesnāt seem to police the area I choose! So if I select Wales as my area I get S4C in Channel 4ās place and BBC One Wales etc etc. Might be worth a try!
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Shwmae Rachel!
When youāre programming your TV, is this for Freeview? I should imagine with Freeview you are restricted to whatever is being broadcast from your local transmitter. I canāt speak for YouView as Iāve never used them, but I have Freesat, which does ask for your postcode - sooo, even though you can get S4C on Freesat anyways, you can determine whether the channel appears at 120 or 104 without it being policed.
But YouView, I know you can only receive S4C if you live in Wales. Although if the location is user defined, that will be interesting to find outā¦ 
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This is freeview, using the TVās built in system. If it finds a new channel or a change itāll ask for permission to retune, or I can manually start a retune. Then itāll ask for my location, I flick between England - North West and Wales, depending on whether I particularly want local news at the time.
If I select Wales it just programmes as if I was in Wales, with S4C in place channel 4. If I pick North West I also get a Manchester specific channel on 6.
Itās an LG TV if that makes a difference?
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I have made the assumption that her local transmitter is Winter Hill (This covers most of the flat areas of north west England i.e. Lancashire plain, Merseyside, Manchester). Looking at which channels are transmitted on freeview by Winter Hill, S4C isnāt among them.
I found this online:
āif you are west of Manchester, you may be able to receive the channel from the Moel-Y-Parc transmitterā
Are you in the west of Manchester @RachelH?
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This would suggest itās not Moel-Y-Parc. Curious.
Iām in South Manchester.
I think I could even have London TV if I wanted, Iāll test the theory when I get home later. Itās a smart TV, could I be receiving via the Internet?
Possibly, but in that case I think you would know, since you kind of need to take some action in order to choose āinternetā or ātvā mode - at least we do. Weāve only recently got our first smart TV (our first flat screen even), so Iām still getting used to it, but I explicitly have to take some action in order to watch something via the internet or something via normal broadcast TV.
In smart TV mode - I think I mean āinternet modeā - (on our (Samsung) tv), you get presented with a series of āappsā (such as iPlayer, Youtube - canāt remember if there is one for S4C, but you can watch S4C via the iPlayer app). You can also go to Chrome-style browser and type in a URL and go to Clic as though you were on a computer/laptop/smartphone, and that can work (although Iāve not manage to get any subtitles at all that way (and only English ones via iPlayer 
).
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