UK Broadcast Transmission

THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY

Photos by Andrew Rogers

The Alderney site used to play a major part in bringing tv pictures to the Channel Islands, hence the unusual array of 4 SABRE receiving aerials which are aligned on the mainland transmitter at Stockland Hill.
You can read more about this arrangement here.

These days Fremont Point is fed by tv pictures sourced from Astra 2D. Additionally the BBC have a fibre-optic link to the islands from Plymouth which provides the CEEFAX data and also the feeds of BBC radio for Les Platons.

Much of the equipment we see installed on the Alderney mast is therefore now redundant, but certainly no less interesting for that.

The relay tramsmits from a conventional stack of cardiode dipoles mounted at the top of the mast. Would any tx-listers like to speculate on the functions of any of the other ironmongery?

Fremont Point | Les Platons

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