mb21 - The Transmission Gallery

	UK Broadcast Transmission

THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY

Photos by Mervyn Mugford

Countisbury

Devon

Landlord: BBC	NGR: SS749501		Site Height: 302.6m		Structure Height: 17m
Analogue TV:	BBC1: 39	BBC2: 66	ITV1: 49	Ch4: 68
Digital TV:
BBC Radio:

Ind. National Radio:
Ind. Local Radio:

Digital Radio:
Comments:	Relay of Mendip

Countisbury is at the top of the famous Countisbury Hill and serves Lynton and Lynmouth.

The building housing the equipment is the old coastguard station.

The pole was a wooden monopole and the top snapped off in the great storm of 1987. Certainly from this picture it looks very weatherbeaten!

Even before that the station had ongoing problems with reception of the parent station Mendip due the distance from Mendip and the effect of the tides.

NGW have tried to improve the off air system, hence the quad arrangement of log periodics, but the results were still unsatisfactory.

Since these photos were taken the monopole and antennas have both been upgraded. You can read about the planning discussions and further recent tests at this site and see some of the results of these tests here.

The pole at Countisbury has now been replaced >

For a time there was a single rx log at 3m AGL but this was only for test purposes. The latest photos from the site show that a 4-log array is still used for reception at this site.

Back to TX Gallery index | TX main index


Countisbury is at the top of the famous Countisbury Hill and serves Lynton and Lynmouth.
The building housing the equipment is the old coastguard station.
The pole was a wooden monopole and the top snapped off in the great storm of 1987. Certainly from this picture it looks very weatherbeaten! Even before that the station had ongoing problems with reception of the parent station Mendip due the distance from Mendip and the effect of the tides. NGW have tried to improve the off air system, hence the quad arrangement of log periodics, but the results were still unsatisfactory.
Since these photos were taken the monopole and antennas have both been upgraded. You can read about the planning discussions and further recent tests at this site and see some of the results of these tests here. The pole at Countisbury has now been replaced > For a time there was a single rx log at 3m AGL but this was only for test purposes. The latest photos from the site show that a 4-log array is still used for reception at this site.