UK Broadcast Transmission

THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY

Photos by Simon Linney

Barrow Town Hall is a relay of Millom Park. ITV used to be on channel 67 until Winter Hill got DTV and then it moved to the more normal channel 41.

Why Barrow Town Hall relays Millom Park I don't know as there's nothing much in the way of Winter Hill from there. Or why channel 67 was used (maybe because 41 is 9 channels above one of the Millom Park channels?).

On the roof of the town hall there are a pair of horizontally polarised yagis pointing at Winter Hill, indicating that the relay used to take its feed from Winter Hill, but evidently these aerials are now disused.

The receive aerials are the 2 large yagis. The 2 log periodics cover an area to the north west of the town hall. The users of this relay are either screened from Winter Hill by the town hall itself or other tall buildings in the town centre. As most of these people are very close by, the tx aerials are tilted downwards at quite an angle.

The white colinear aerial inside the tower is the UHF outside broadcast receive aerial for BBC Radio Cumbria. The colinear outside the tower by the tx aerials is for a UHF mobile data network.

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