The BrookmansParktransmittingstation is a facility for medium wave broadcasting north of London gbmapping TL259050 . The station was built by the BBC as the first of a network of regional dual twin wave was the term then used transmitter stations, replacing the city based ones used previously, and this was to cover the Home Counties , London and South East. The first station, on 842khz, 50kw, went ... The Transmission Gallery photographs and information http www.brookmans.com history transmitting transmittingstation.shtml A History of BrookmansParkTransmittingStation http www.brookmans.com history bbc index.shtml The London Twin Wave Broadcasting StationBrookmansPark structurae id s0016655 title BrookmansPark Transmission Mast structurae id s0016656 title BrookmansPark Transmission ... Category Media in Hertfordshire de Sender BrookmansPark ... NETWORK ref The original antenna configuration for the station was two T antenna s hung from four 200ft 61m towers, one T antenna to the north of the station and the other to the south of the station ... its function. The National channel was carried on 842khz, and a Regional service on 1148khz. The transmittingstation itself featured the latest transmitters from the Marconi Company . No public electricity ... and trained by the BBC. In 1939 a 91.4 m mast was built on the south side of the station, which ... was constructed on a field around half a mile north of station for the BBC Home Service and the original north T antenna would be become a reserve antenna for that service. The station was re engineered ... since the re engineering little has changed to the antenna and structure layout of the station, but the services have changed and the station now transmits Virgin Radio instead of Radio 3, Sunrise ... 2. Much development has taken place and the station now is now the home to many communications companies who operate various satellite and communication services. The station is owned by Arqiva ... more details
Infobox GB station name BrookmansPark symbol rail code BPK image name BrookmansPark railway station.jpg caption The station s 4 platforms owner manager First Capital Connect locale BrookmansPark borough Welwyn Hatfield lowusage0203 pad 1em 136,394 lowusage0405 increase 143,537 lowusage0506 increase 150,325 lowusage0607 increase 167,346 lowusage0708 increase 185,759 lowusage0809 increase 198,784 lowusage0910 decrease 191,500 platforms 4 start 19 July 1926 latitude longitude gridref TL241040 original ... events Station opened First Capital Connect services width 350px collapse yes BrookmansPark railway station serves the village of BrookmansPark in Hertfordshire , England . The station is located convert 14 mi 37 chain km lk on north of Kings Cross railway station London Kings Cross on the East Coast Main Line , on the stretch between stnlnk Finsbury Park and stnlnk Hatfield . ref cite book last ... railway stations DEFAULTSORT BrookmansPark Railway Station Category Railway stations in Hertfordshire ... railstation stub nl StationBrookmansPark .... The station car park parallels the island platforms to the east. The platforms are reached by a steep footbridge, the station building an LNER survivor being a part time booking office at the NW extremity of the station. ref http www.nationalrail.co.uk stations sjp BPK plan.html ref Ticket Office Opening Times & Station Staffing Hours Below are the current opening and staffing times for BrookmansPark, as of 2010 lc on . ref http www.firstcapitalconnect.co.uk Main.php?sEvent StationInfo&crs ... Hersham isbn 978 0 86093 602 2 id 0704 K at p. 24, section A2 ref History The station was opened ... opposite the booking office window, replacing an earlier Avantix self service machine. Station layout The station has four platforms in total, with an island platform on the west side serving ... Sunday class wikitable Station Staffing Hours Day From Until Monday to Friday 06 35 10 15 Saturday ... more details
ParkTransmittingStation Main article BrookmansPark Transmitter The village s north east corner is home to the BrookmansParkTransmittingStation. The BrookmansParkTransmittingStation, situated ... name BrookmansPark civil parish North Mymms latitude 51.721 longitude 0.203 Note WGS84 lat long, converted ... green and shops small BrookmansPark is a village, located in the civil parish of North Mymms ..., including an ancient historic estate that used to exist within its boundaries, its BrookmansParktransmittingstation BBC transmitter station , and excellent local amenities. The village website, http www.brookmans.com The BrookmansPark Newsletter has more than 20 complete history books and 40 in depth features , as well as a half hour video about the history of the area. BrookmansPark railway station is on the East Coast Mainline , operated by First Capital Connect . A short history of Brookmans ... of the village of BrookmansPark. John Somers , The Lord Chancellor , spent the last years ... of civilians in Britain during World War II evacuated to BrookmansPark from London, but the surrounding ... of http www.brookmanspark.herts.sch.uk BrookmansPark School . Folly Arch A well known local landmark, visible from much of BrookmansPark, is the Folly Arch which now lies on the road between Brookmans ... wealth near the village of BrookmansPark from the 14th to 18th Centuries. The estate s lands ... Space is now a public nature reserve, open to all. BrookmansPark School and Chancellors School BrookmansPark enjoys its own primary school , http www.brookmanspark.herts.sch.uk BrookmansPark School ... to OFSTED reports. The Brookmans The BrookmansPark Hotel was a privately owned hotel situated ... and was noticeably more upmarket than The BrookmansPark Hotel had been. Along with dropping Hotel ... and after a refurbishment and menu overhaul reopened in October of the same year. BrookmansPark Golf Club and Lawn Tennis Club The BrookmansPark Golf Club is located adjacent to Chancellors School, just ... more details
The Start Point transmittingstation is a broadcasting facility at Start Point, Devon , owned by National Grid Wireless . The site is just north west of the Start Point lighthouse . The station currently transmits a single broadcast BBC Radio 5 Live on 693 kHz . History 1930s In 1935 the BBC started looking for transmitter sites to improve radio coverage in Devon, Dorset and Cornwall. After investigating 23 sites and carrying out extensive tests, two sites were selected Start Point and Clevedon in Somerset. Start Point came on air on June 14th, 1939 using an Standard Telephones and Cables ST&C type C100 100 kW transmitter on 1050 kHz, and broadcast the West of England regional programme. A directional aerial array was used to avoid wasting power over the English Channel and to enhance the signal to the east and west. It consisted of two 137.2 m 450 ft stayed lattice masts, one being a mast radiator and the other a parasitic reflector. Both masts had a break at 94.5 m 310 ft to allow for the insertion of a loading coil . ref name pawley Pawley, Edward 1972 , BBC Engineering 1922 1972 , London ... magazine, July 2004. ref The station obtained power from two 11 kV mains feeders and a 400 kW diesel alternator. ref name pawley The building design followed L. Rome Guthrie s earlier work at the BrookmansParktransmittingstation . By agreement, the BBC obtained copyright in the BrookmansPark elevation drawings and was able to follow them, with changes to allow for building size, for several other sites. ref name pawley The station closed on September 1st, 1939, in anticipation of the outbreak ... wave transmitter Sender 22 was added to the station to carry the Home Service on 6075 kHz, from ... 1940, the station began to transmit the European Service on 1050 kHz. This also used a horizontally ... in audio distortion. ref name pawley ref name shacklady Post 1945 The station carried the West of England ... of the medium wave band in Europe, and from that date the station transmitted Radio 1 on 1053 ... more details
Image Droitwichtransmitter.jpg thumb right Masts at Droitwich transmittingstation The Droitwich transmittingstation is a large broadcasting facility for longwave and mediumwave transmissions, established in 1934 in the civil parishes in England civil parish of Dodderhill , just outside the village of Wychbold , which is near Droitwich , Worcestershire , England gbmapping SO929663 . This transmission site is the location of the BBC British Broadcasting Corporation s most powerful longwave transmitter, which together with the two Scottish longwave transmitters at Burghead transmittingstation Burghead and Westerglen transmittingstation Westerglen forms a Single frequency network network broadcasting on the same frequency . The masts can be seen to the east from the M5 motorway , between Droitwich and Bromsgrove . At night, the two sets of aircraft warning lights are visible from a long distance. The station is owned and operated by Arqiva . Technical specifications The frequency was 200 kHz until February 1988 when it was changed to 198 kHz, and the power currently 500 kW. The carrier frequency is controlled by a rubidium atomic clock atomic frequency standard in the transmitter building, enabling the transmission to be used as an off air frequency standard. For the long wave transmission, a T aerial is used, which is suspended between two 700 ft 210 m high guyed steel lattice radio masts and towers masts , which are 600 ft 180 m apart from each other. There are also two guyed mast radiator s at the site, which are used for transmitting AM medium wave radio programmes on 693 kHz, 1053 kHz and 1215 kHz. Transmissions A number of items ... BrookmansPark Transmitter BrookmansPark and Moorside Edge Transmitter Moorside Edge , is one of the strongest ... Droitwich TransmittingStation Category British radio Category Buildings and structures in Worcestershire ... Operations transmitter ops Reminiscences Droitwich droitwich calling2.pdf Station History Coord 52 17 ... more details
MHz 4 Heart 106.2 Heart Backup for Crystal Palace transmittingstation Crystal Palace . Digital radio ... 33 N A BBC Two 599.25 MHz 37 1000 Channel 5 UK Channel 5 Backup for Crystal Palace transmittingstation Crystal Palace . See also Wrotham Transmitter , BrookmansPark Transmitter and Droitwich AM transmitter ... Story of the rivalry between the ITA and the BBC to be the first to complete their transmitting ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Yosami TransmittingStation was a very large List of transmission sites transmittingstation for intercontinental communication and for submarine Radio communication in the Very low frequency VLF range at Kariya, Aichi , Japan. Yosami TransmittingStation used as Antenna radio antenna a wire antenna system, which was spun between 8 guyed masts, each 250 metres tall and Insulator electrical insulated against Ground electricity ground . The masts of Yosami transmittingstation were at its completion in 1929 Japan s tallest architectural structure. Yosami TransmittingStation played an important role in World War II for transmitting news to axis powers Germany and Italy and for transmitting messages to submarines under water. After 1950 the transmitters were used by the US. Navy. although the masts were repainted in 1985, in 1993 the station was shut down and became a beautiful flower park. However, the transmitter and building as well as the bottom section of one of the masts is moved and rebuilt as a museum a short way from the original site. External links http www.denkikogyo.co.jp en corporate history2.html Denki Kogyo Ltd History of the Yosami TransmittingStation http www.tcp ip.or.jp ishida96 ih aichi isan wo aruku 1996 1996 06 yosamisoshinsho.html Yosami Radio TransmittingStation http www.city.kariya.lg.jp history rekisinannbu2.html City Kariya Yosami Museum http njb.virtualave.net web rl2005 yosami yosami.htm Yosami pictures http www.katch.ne.jp teru y yosami yosami 2.htm Great photos by JA2DJN http www.katch.ne.jp teru y yosami yosami.pdf Transmitter and Antenna system schematics http www.navy radio.com xmtrs vlf yosami 02.JPG Antenna scheme coord 34.972265 137.016472 format dms display title type landmark region JP scale 10000 Category Towers in Japan Category Destroyed landmarks Category Buildings and structures completed in 1929 Category 1996 disestablishments ja ... more details
Infobox UK Transmitter name Tay Bridge image relay Angus transmittingstation Angus height built demolished collapsed BBC BBC Scotland ITV STV North Tayside Tay Bridge transmittingstation is a relay transmitter of Angus transmittingstation Angus , situated in Dundee . It is owned and operated by Arqiva . Channels listed by frequency Analogue television These services were broadcast until 18 August 2010. BBC Two Scotland was previously closed on 4 August. class wikitable sortable no2 Frequency no2 UHF no2 kW no2 Service 575.25 MHz 34 4 Channel 5 UK Channel 5 631.25 MHz 41 0.5 STV TV network STV 655.25 MHz 44 0.5 BBC Two Scotland 679.25 MHz 47 0.5 Channel 4 711.25 MHz 51 0.5 BBC One Scotland Digital television class wikitable sortable Frequency UHF kW Operator 634.2 MHz 41 0.1 BBC A 658.0 MHz 44 0.1 BBC B 682.0 MHz 47 0.1 Digital 3&4 coord 56.4447 2.9250 type landmark region GB display title Category Transmitter sites in the United Kingdom Category Transmitter sites in Scotland Television transmitters in the UK UK bcast stub ... more details
Unreferenced date April 2011 Washford transmittingstation is a medium wave broadcasting station near Washford , Somerset, UK. It was built in 1933 and uses as antenna a T antenna between two 152 metre tall guyed masts separated by a distance of 159 metres. Originally the station used cage antennas around each mast. The station uses the frequencies 882 kHz with 100 kW, 1089 kHz with 50 kW and 1215 kHz with 50 kW. In the old transmitter building, there is today a radio museum. External links http tx.mb21.co.uk gallery washford index.php Category Broadcasting ... more details
File Approaching the Masts on top of Brougher mountain geograph.org.uk 326142.jpg thumb Brougher Mountain transmitting station Brougher Mountain transmitting station is a major transmitting station in Northern Ireland . ref cite web url http www.geograph.ie photo 1684299 title Brougher Mountain Transmitting Station publisher geograph.org.uk author VisualServ accessdate 2011 04 17 ref ref cite web url http tx.mb21.co.uk mapsys anatv broughermountain.php title Transmission Information Brougher Mountain author Mike Brown accessdate 2011 04 17 ref It is located between County Tyrone and County Fermanagh , on top of a 317 meter high hill called Brougher Mountain. ref cite web url http mountainviews.ie mv index.php?mtnindex 935 title Brougher Mountain Hill accessdate 2011 04 17 ref It has four other transmitter sites in its Digital Switchover transmitter group, at Ederny , Derrygonnelly , Belcoo , and Lisbellaw . ref cite web url http stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk binaries broadcast guidance tech guidance 816898 ulster v2.2.pdf title Northern Ireland TV region Digital Switchover transmission groups publisher Ofcom date July 2009 accessdate 2011 04 17 ref Services transmitted by frequency Analogue television class wikitable sortable Frequency UHF kW Service 479.25 MHz 22 100 BBC One Northern Ireland 503.25 MHz 25 100 UTV 527.25 MHz 28 100 BBC Two Northern Ireland 559.25 MHz 32 100 Channel 4 Digital television class wikitable sortable Frequency UHF kW Operator 490.2 MHz 23 0.5 S4C Digital Networks SDN Mux A 514.2 MHz 26 0.5 BBC Mux B 538.2 MHz 29 0.5 Arqiva Mux C 546.2 MHz 30 0.5 BBC Mux 1 570.2 MHz 33 0.5 Arqiva Mux D 534.2 MHz 34 0.5 Digital 3&4 Mux 2 References Reflist See also Divis Mountain transmitting station Limavady transmitting station External links http www.flickr.com photos 20961594 N04 5626950168 in pool 52239794877 N01 lightbox Picture of Brougher Mountain from the air Television transmitters in the UK coord 54.42327 N 7.46043 W type landmark region GB display ti ... more details
The Acklam Wold transmittingstation is located between Acklam, Ryedale Acklam and Leavening, North Yorkshire Leavening , on the Yorkshire Wolds at British national grid reference system grid reference SE795619 ref http www.bbc.co.uk reception transmitters radio digital radio.shtml ref . It carries BBC Radio York 103.7 at 2.0 kW, and Minster FM 104.7 at 2.5 kW. It broadcasts down to Sheffield and up to the North York Moors just outside Whitby . It also carries the MXR Yorkshire Multiplex TV multiplex . References references coord 54.0469 0.7868 type landmark region GB display title DEFAULTSORT Acklam Wold TransmittingStation Category Buildings and structures in North Yorkshire Category Broadcast transmitters Category Transmitter sites in England UK bcast stub ... more details
Hill transmittingstation Winter Hill , S4C from the relay was required to change frequency from ... ref Radio Listeners Guide 2010 ref See also Winter Hill transmittingstation The Wrekin transmittingstation Moel y Parc transmittingstation References Reflist External links http tx.mb21.co.uk gallery ...Infobox UK Transmitter name Wrexham Rhos image height built demolished collapsed relay Moel y Parc transmittingstation Moel y Parc BBC BBC Wales ITV ITV Wales & West ITV Wales The Wrexham Rhos transmittingstation is a digital television relay of Moel y Parc transmittingstation Moel y Parc . Despite its name, the station is situated in Moss Valley, Wrexham Moss Village and serves Wrexham and its surrounding villages. However, the area is predominately served by English language English transmitters at Winter Hill transmittingstation Winter Hill and The Wrekin Transmitter The Wrekin as they historically provided Channel 4 whilst Wrexham Rhos gives Wales Welsh variant, S4C , and Five channel Five on analogue television. Additionally, both Granada Television and Associated TeleVision ATV , received from Winter Hill and The Wrekin respectively were on air significantly earlier than Welsh ITV contractor, Wales West and North Television WWN . Since then, WWN has been replaced by Television Wales and the West TWW and later ITV Wales & West HTV Wales , while ATV has been replaced by Central Independent Television Central . The mast was constructed to offer Welsh television channels to the area, initially just S4C and BBC One BBC One Wales . http tx.mb21.co.uk gallery wrexham rhos.asp . Since then however, both ITV Wales & West HTV Wales and BBC Two BBC Two Wales have been broadcasting from the mast, most recently being HTV in 1997 http www.ofcom.org.uk static archive itc uploads HTV ... Hope Mountain. Television Digital At present, the station broadcasts three of the six national digital terrestrial television multiplexes on the Freeview Lite service. The station switched over ... more details
also Dover transmittingstation broadcasts TV, DAB and commercial FM radio from a site west of the town References Reflist External links http tx.mb21.co.uk gallery swingate index.php Swingate transmittingstation at mb21 http www.flickr.com photos doverpast 4460372893 in photostream National Geographic ...File Swingate military telecommunication station geograph.org.uk 1633769.jpg thumb The three Swingate towers File Chain home.jpg thumb The Swingate towers were originally equipped with platforms like this one at Great Baddow in Essex, the only Chain Home radar tower to retain the original platforms. The Swingate transmittingstation is a facility for FM transmission at Swingate , United Kingdom UK national grid reference TR334429 . For many years there were three lattice towers with a height of 111 metres, which were built for Chain Home radar before World War II . The FM transmitting antennas are attached to what was the middle tower microwave link dishes and mobile telephone antennas were spread across all three towers. The south tower was dismantled in March 2010. They are the only radar towers from the Battle of Britain in WWII still in use today, although the Swingate towers no longer have the three cantilever platforms that were fitted originally. History Originally there were four towers with wires stretched between them to transmit radio waves that were detected by a group of four smaller towers to the east of the surviving ones. The receiver towers were demolished after the war, along with one of the transmitter towers. Subsequently the north mast was demolished and replaced with a similar tower with a different bracing design. During the Cold War the towers sprouted four transmitters at their base which were popularly assumed to be part of the US ACE High communication system but were more likely an RAF link to Germany. The south tower was dismantled in March 2010. Channels available from this site Analogue radio The transmitter is the main transmission station for the BBC ... more details
MHz 27 0.015 BBC A See also Flint TV relay Moel y Parc transmittingstation Storeton transmittingstation Winter Hill transmittingstation References reflist External links http tx.mb21.co.uk gallery ... 1.jpg 240px thumb right Close up of the mast showing the lower receiving aerials and upper transmitting ... more details
The Sandale transmittingstation is the main radio transmittingstation for the county of Cumbria , including the Lake District . It used to broadcast regional variations of BBC One and BBC Two until digital switchover happened in the region. All television channels now come from the nearby Caldbeck transmittingstation . The station is situated on the Caldbeck Fells close to the B5299 road and eight miles south of Wigton . Its mast is convert 153 m high. Until 1993 it broadcast Radio Solway . Now it broadcasts BBC Radio Scotland on the same frequency. Radio frequencies class wikitable sortable Frequency kW Service 88.1 MHz 250 BBC Radio 2 90.3 MHz 250 BBC Radio 3 92.5 MHz 250 BBC Radio 4 94.7 MHz 250 BBC Radio Scotland 95.6 MHz 15 BBC Radio Cumbria 97.7 MHz 250 BBC Radio 1 99.9 MHz 125 Classic FM UK Classic FM See also List of tallest buildings and structures in Great Britain External links http tx.mb21.co.uk gallery sandale.php The Transmission Gallery Photographs and Information http tx.mb21.co.uk mapsys fm sandale.php The Transmission Gallery FM Coverage Map http www.thebigtower.com live Sandale Index.htm Sandale Transmitter at thebigtower.com coord 54 44 57 N 3 8 27 W type landmark display title Category Transmitter sites in the United Kingdom ... more details
Ashkirk transmittingstation . Channels listed by frequency Digital television class wikitable sortable ... for Selkirk transmittingstation at The Transmission Gallery http www.thebigtower.com live Selkirk ... title DEFAULTSORT Selkirk TransmittingStation Category Transmitter sites in the United Kingdom Category ... more details
Image Burghead masts.jpg thumb Burghead masts from the east. The Burghead transmittingstation is a broadcasting facility near Burghead gbmapping NJ125685 in Scotland for longwave long and mediumwave medium wave radio transmission that started service on 12 October 1936. ref http www.ambaile.org.uk en newspapers search results.jsp?newspaper 0&PrimarySubject 0&startyear &endyear &keywords bbc burghead&StartRow 0&MaxRows 25&x 0&y 0 Inverness Courier 13th October 1936 ref The site is owned by Arqiva and houses a long wave radio transmitter on 198 kHz broadcasting BBC Radio 4 and two medium wave radio transmitters, broadcasting Radio Five Live BBC Radio Five Live on 693 kHz and Radio Scotland BBC Radio Scotland on 810 kHz. The long wave transmitter is part of a network transmitting on the same frequency, the other transmitters being at the Droitwich transmittingstation Droitwich and Westerglen transmittingstation Westerglen . The station has three masts, which are all lattice structures with triangular cross section and insulated against ground. The northern of the two large masts is 153.6 metres 504 ft , the southern large mast is 154.2 metres 506 ft tall, while the third one is significantly lower source http www.ead.eurocontrol.int pamslight pdf 4e415453 EG C EN AIP ENR EG ENR 5 4 en , entry for LFA 14 . One of the large Radio masts and towers masts is used for the medium wave transmitters. The other of the large masts is used for the longwave transmitter and by wires running from the pinnacle to the ground capacititive enlengthened. The third and smallest mast is the backup antenna. The original building was demolished leaving a much smaller building for the more modern transmitters. Services available class wikitable sortable Frequency kW ref Radio Listeners Guide 2010 ref Service 198 kHz 50 BBC Radio 4 693 kHz 50 BBC Radio 5 Live 810 kHz 100 BBC Radio Scotland See also Arqiva , who own the site List of masts List of tallest buildings and structures ... more details
Image Westerglen AM transmitter, masts.jpg right thumb The four masts at the Westerglen transmittingstation The Westerglen transmittingstation is a facility for longwave and mediumwave broadcasting established in 1932 at Westerglen Farm, 3 km south west of Falkirk , Stirlingshire , Scotland gbmapping NS868773 . Four medium wave radio programmes are broadcast from the site on frequencies of 810, 909, 1089 and 1215 kHz and a long wave service on 198KHz. There are three guyed steel lattice mast radiator s on the site, which are insulated against ground. These carry combinations of the above services. There is a shorter fourth mast that carries non broadcast services. One of the masts carries the long wave transmission in a synchronised group with the transmitters at Droitwich transmittingstation Droitwich and Burghead transmittingstation Burghead on the same frequency until 1989 200 kHz, now 198 kHz . This mast is of guyed steel lattice construction with triangular cross section and it carries a capacity hat , which extends the electrical wavelength, at the top. The site is owned and operated by Arqiva . Transmissions A number of items in the BBC Radio 4 schedule are carried on the longwave frequency only these include Yesterday In Parliament at 0835&ndash 0900 on Tuesdays to Fridays, The Daily Service at 0945&ndash 1000 on Mondays to Fridays, the Shipping Forecast at 1201&ndash 1204 daily and 1754&ndash 1757 on Mondays to Fridays, and Test Match Special during international cricket games. A number of Programs on BBC Radio Scotland are different on Medium wave compared to the FM schedule as well. The medium wave broadcast is strong enough to be heard as far south as Staffordshire at certain times of the day. Services available class wikitable sortable Frequency kW ref Radio Listeners Guide 2010 ref Service 198 kHz 50 BBC Radio 4 909 kHz 50 BBC Radio 5 Live 810 kHz 100 BBC Radio Scotland 1089 kHz 50 Talksport 1215 kHz 50 Absolute Radio See also List of masts List of radio ... more details
Stirling TransmittingStation is a transmission facility on Earls Hill southwest of Stirling . It was built at the end of the 1950s for the radio navigation system Dectra with a 183 metres 600 ft tall guyed mast radiator, which was used after shut down of Dectra as a Decca Navigator System Decca transmitter . Today the facility is used for cell phone transmitters. References http jproc.ca hyperbolic decca north british.html coord 56.0715 4.0577 region GB STG type landmark display title Category Buildings and structures in Stirling council area ... more details
co channel interference with Winter Hill transmittingstation Winter Hill transmitter , meaning ... Wales, such as the Moel y Parc transmittingstation , co channel interface with Transmitters in North ... transmittingstation instead. Services listed by frequency Analogue radio class wikitable sortable Frequency ... DEFAULTSORT Llanddona TransmittingStation Category Buildings and structures in Anglesey Category ... transmitting using the BBC B multiplex on channel 53 in July 2010. ref http www.freeview.co.uk availability ... more details
The Woofferton transmittingstation is a shortwave broadcasting site at Woofferton , south of Ludlow , Shropshire , England . The station was originally built by the BBC during World War II to house additional shortwave High frequency HF broadcasting transmitters. It had six 50 Watt kW RCA transmitters, obtained by lend lease . During the Cold War , the station was equipped with six Marconi Company Marconi BD272 250 kW shortwave transmitters. Much of the capacity was leased by the BBC to the Voice of America VoA in order to enhance the latter s coverage in the Eastern bloc . It provided a stronger shortwave broadcast signal into the Eastern Bloc than any other western shortwave broadcast transmitter during the years of Soviet jamming. It was VoA s custom to name the transmission site at the beginning of each broadcast. Visitors to this isolated rural site were amused to hear broadcasts begin with the words, This is the Voice of America, from Woofferton . All the BBC s transmitting facilities were privatised in the 1990s. The shortwave sites were sold to Merlin Communications, which was acquired by VT Group plc trading under the name VT Communications until acquired by Babcock International Group in March 2010. The station currently has ten 300 kW HF transmitters. It also has a 300 watt mediumwave MF transmitter for BBC Hereford and Worcester formerly used by BBC Radio Shropshire . References Duncan Campbell investigative journalist Campbell, D. , 1983. War Plan UK , p. 251. Paladin edition. ISBN 0 586 08479 7. Pawley, E., 1972. BBC Engineering 1922&ndash 1972 , pp. 259&ndash 60, 348, 458. BBC. ISBN 0 563 12127 0. Shacklady, N., and Ellen, M, 2003. On Air A History of BBC Transmission , pp. 29&ndash 32. Wavechange Books. ISBN 0 9544077 0 9. External links http www.bbceng.info Operations transmitter ops Reminiscences Woofferton woof50y v2.pdf Cant, J. Fifty years of transmitting at BBC Woofferton 1943&ndash 1993 A social and technical history of a Short Wave Station 3.7MB ... more details
The Kirk o Shotts transmittingstation is a broadcasting and telecommunication s site at The Hirst which lies just outside the village of Salsburgh which is near the town of Shotts in North Lanarkshire North Lanarkshire central Scotland . Kirk o Shotts means Church of Shotts and takes its name from nearby Kirk O Shott s Parish Church and Kirk O Shotts Primary School both located as you enter the nearby village of Salsburgh . The BBC 405 line television service started from Kirk o Shotts on 14 March 1952 using low power reserve transmitters Marconi Company Marconi . Full service began on 17 August 1952 using the main high power transmitters Vision EMI Type 5704, Sound STC Type CTS 12 . The station provided a service to a potential 4.1 million viewers and operated on Channel 3 Vision 56.75 MHz, Sound 53.25 MHz and transmissions were Antennas Vertically Polarised . It subsequently became the main national FM broadcasting FM transmittingstation for the area, although that role is now filled by the nearby site at Black Hill transmittingstation Black Hill . Three DAB multiplexes are broadcast from the site BBC 12B , Digital One 12A and Switch Scotland 11D . ref cite web url http tx.mb21.co.uk gallery kirkoshotts.php title The Transmission Gallery Kirk o Shotts Transmitter photographs and information ref It has a 183 metre 600 foot tall guyed radio masts and towers mast , built in 1952 . The mast was originally 228.6 metres 750 foot tall. The station is owned by Arqiva . Channels available Digital radio class wikitable sortable Frequency Block kW Operator 222.064 MHz 11D 1.88 Switch Scotland 223.936 MHz 12A 4.6 Digital One 225.648 MHz 12B 10 BBC National DAB See also List of masts List of tallest structures in the United Kingdom Salsburgh References reflist Further reading Pawley, Edward, BBC Engineering 1922 1972 , BBC Publications 1972, ISBN 0 563 12127 0 External links http www.the moores.co.uk MediaGallery Default.aspx?directory 105 Kirk o Shotts photo ... more details
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