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THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY
BALLYCASTLE
| Photos by Allan Boston | Page last updated: 2022-10-03 |
| Ballycastle was built by the BBC to transmit BBC 405-line TV and FM radio. Both entered service on 12-Dec-1966. There is a link to a summary of the original installation at the foot of this page. A 405-line transmitter for ITV on VHF channel 13 was added on 6-Jul-1970. Both 405-line TV services closed on 6-Apr-1982. The UHF TV relay for this area was established at a new site called Ballycastle Forest, but radio was never moved. The original FM radio frequencies were 89.0 / 91.2 / 93.4. On 1-May-1985 they were changed to 88.8 / 91.0 / 93.2. Re-engineering for mixed polarisation was completed in October 1987 at which time Radio 4 took over the 93.2 MHz frequency with Radio Ulster moved to 95.1 MHz. Radio 1 was added on 14-May-1993. Note the receive aerials lower down, with the yagis on Limavady for Radio 4 only and the logs pointing at Divis for all other services. Also - not a GSM antenna in sight! |
| Near the top on the right are the two transmit aerials. One horizontal log periodic (top) and one vertical log periodic (lower). Note that they point in slightly different directions. East-southeast (top). Southeast (lower). |
| Receive aerials. Left, twin yagis on Limavady for Radio 4. Right, twin logs on Divis for all other services. |
Ballycastle Forest | Divis A | Limavady
BBC RD Summary of installation (1968)
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