Solent Wireless is brought to you by Havant based Angel Radio.

Established in 1999, and broadcasting to the Havant area on FM and to South Hampshire on DAB digital radio, Angel Radio provides entertaining music and speech aimed at those who are fans of all things vintage.

With analogue (FM/AM) radio, listeners are used to tuning in to a frequency and receiving a station. However, with DAB digital radio it is possible to broadcast many stations on the same frequency. This frequency with multiple stations is known as a multiplex. 

In the UK, the BBC have a multiplex for their national stations. A company called Digital One broadcast a multiplex of national commercial stations to around 90% of the country, and a company called Sound Digital broadcast a multiplex of national commercial stations to around 80% of the country. Local DAB digital stations have, until now, been broadcast over county-wide/metropolitan areas. There are local DAB digital radio services provided on a multiplex for the South Hampshire area by a company called NOW Digital.

Now, thanks to a pioneering Ofcom trail, it is possible to broadcast DAB digital radio services to individual towns and cities.

Angel Radio was one of 10 organisations around the UK that was granted a pilot licence in 2015. The trial was a success and today, there are over 50 locations in the UK that have their very own local DAB multiplex. In Portsmouth, Angel Radio was successful in its application to Ofcom for a long term licence.

We are proud to be collaborating with a wide range of broadcasters to bring such a variety of different stations to the Portsmouth area on DAB digital radio for the first time.

Angel Radio uses the Solent Wireless name as a central location for information about our Portsmouth DAB digital multiplex. 

To learn more about the services we broadcast, please visit our services page.

Ash Elford manages the multiplex operations, and technical services are provided to us by Hampshire based company Commtronix.

To keep up to date with developments, please visit this website regularly.