Hannington's DSO was completed on February 22nd 2012.
However, for a further two months, the COM muxes were still transmitted from what was called the D1 aerial. This was the pre DSO DTT aerial, that had a notch towards the east, to protect reception in Guildford. It was 8 tiers of panels, fixed to the west side of the mast, immediately below the cantilever main aerial.
The London region DSO on April 18th 2012, finally allowed Hannington's COMs to be transmitted from the main omni directional aerial (S1), finally making the D1 redundant.
This aperture is now to be used for the standby omni directional aerial, the S2.
Mark Carver returned to the site from May 25th, (and revisited until the end of July), when work was conducted to remove the D1 components, and install the S2. |
