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THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY
RUGELEY
| Photos by Rob Shufflebotham | Page last updated: 2017-10-24 |
| Rugeley is located at a school. Thankfully it was a Sunday afternoon, so a man standing in a field with a camera taking pictures of a school didn't arouse too much suspicion. The Tx sits on a school roof and transmits back towards the Sutton Coldfield station it relays, serving a housing estate on the side of a bank sheltered from Sutton. The rough direction of transmission is down the hedge on the left of the large panorama. |
| Ray Cooper comments: It's a pity this photo didn't include the complete transmitting array: on the left of the photo you can see the rear-end of two VP logs pointing in the opposite direction. These are part of the TX array, and fill-in an area further up the hillside. The main area, down in the town, is by no means lacking in signal strength from Sutton - unfortunately it's riddled with DII -Delayed Image Interference ("ghosting") due to the cooling towers at Rugeley power station making life a misery for the inhabitants in televisual terms. This also explains the use of a four-toed-in log array for the RX aerial - certainly not needed in field strength terms, but vital to get a clean ghost-free signal. |
| Rob returned to the site in January 2011 to to provide the detail of the other half of the transmitting array missed by his previous visit. |
| Detail from the west. |
| ... and from the east. |
| The year was 1991 |
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