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THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY

Photos by Derek Brice and David Foord

Folkestone MF
  NGR: TR255389 Site Height: Structure Height:
Digital TV:          
BBC Radio:           Radio Five Live: 693 kHz
     
Ind. National Radio:    
Ind. Local Radio:    
     
Digital Radio:          
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This site transmits BBC Radio Five Live to the SE tip of England on 693kHz. from a wire antenna slung between the two 45m masts.

FM radio transmissions for Folkestone are from nearby Creteway Down.

The first photo below was taken in the 1960s by Derek Brice

The photo at the bottom of this page also shows the much taller (228m) Dover UHF television mast some distance away - and in the far distance the three towers of the Swingate site.

Folkestone (Creteway Down) | Dover | Swingate

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