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THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY
TOROSAY
| Photos by Martin Briscoe | Page last updated: 2025-12-03 |
| As Ray Cooper put it: Torosay is an accredited member of the awkward squad. There are generally reckoned to be 51 main analogue UHF tv stations and to arrive at that figure you must include Bressay and Torosay. However, despite its 20kW ERP (analogue) Torosay is numbered 105.10 which makes it, organisationally, a relay of Blackhill. So you pays your money and takes your choice! Editor. The 1961 plan for UHF television broadcasting (ST61), allocated a 20 kW ERP transmitting station for Argyllshire, which was to be sited either on the Isle of Mull or at the existing BBC VHF transmitting site at Oban. A site on Mull (Torosay) was preferred as it provided the maximum population coverage of about 11,000 people. The bulk of these people live in Oban but the remainder are widely scattered in the Argyll area. An additional advantage was that a relay station serving about 4,000 people in Fort William (Cow Hill), could be fed by direct reception from Torosay. Neither Torosay or Oban could be provided with a programme feed by direct radio pick-up. In the case of Torosay, a programme feed could be obtained from Black Hill via a relay at South Knapdale followed by a one-hop SHF link. Oban would have required a two-hop SHF link and wouldn’t have been able to feed the transmitter at Cow Hill (serving Fort William). At DSO Torosay became a full main station carrying six digital multiplex services. |
Black Hill A | Cow Hill | Oban | South Knapdale
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