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THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY
ROSNEATH
| Photos by Jeremy Bailey, James Towill and David Neale | Page last updated: 2023-11-23 |
| Rosneath was originally an ITA landlord site which entered service with 405-line ITV on channel 13 on 13-Dec-1968. 405-line BBC 1 on channel 2 also started at about the same time. Both 405-line TV services closed in July 1983. BBC national FM radio was added by 1974. In June 1991, BBC FM radio was re-engineered for mixed polarisation and Radio's 1 & 4 were added. Radio Clyde (103.3 MHz) was added on 12-Aug-1993, YOU Radio (106.9 MHz) from 20-Nov-2003, closed 23-Aug-2018, Real Radio (now Heart FM, 101.1 MHz), from 24-Nov-2004. UHF TV on 3 channels went into service on 13-Aug-1976 as a 10 kW ERP, vertically polarised relay, transmitting from a southeast facing cardioid. A north facing 50 W ERP, horizontal cardioid was added on the 25-Apr-1980. Channel 4 was added in March 1984. Interim DTT was added in November 1999 with all 6 muxes transmitted from the main UHF cylinder. DSO 11th and 25th May 2011. Although a relay, this is one of Arqiva's major, high maintenence, stayed masts. In the late 1960's, Rosneath was listed as a future UHF main station transmitting with horizontal polarisation at 50kW ERP. It was allocated site number 122, rather than a Darvel relay, site number 152.11. Rosneath is a dual polarisation TV relay. The horizontal transmissions are at low power and are just designed to serve Rosneath town itself, 2 miles North of the station. The much higher power vertical transmissions serve several towns including Greenock to the south of the Clyde. |
| The pictures below were taken by David Neale in 2002. |
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