This is a site owned by BT and is a major communications tower. It used carry links to TV transmission sites around Norfolk, although it has never transmitted any TV signals itself. It does however transmit Heart, Radio Norfolk and Radio Norwich from the array at the very top of the tower. Just under that, difficult to see, there are two directional antennas, they transmit the regional station Kiss FM on 106.1 as a fill-in for Norwich.
Incidentally, if you look at the right hand side of the first photo you will see what looks like a TV aerial on a rotator, that is in fact the receiving point for Heart's radio car!
ILR Great Yarmouth & Norwich (Radio Broadland) launched on 1-Oct-1984 on 97.6 MHz. On 25-Jun-1987 the frequency was changed to 102.4 MHz as this was the GE84 ILR Norwich assignment. IRR East Anglia (Vibe FM) launched on 22-Nov-1997 on 106.1 MHz. Radio Norfolk transferred from Tacolneston in December 1999 on 95.1 MHz. Radio Norwich launched on 29-Jun-2006 on 99.9 MHz.
DAB service dates: Norfolk 31-Mar-2003; Digital One 29-Jan-2004; BBC National 28-Mar-2007; Sound Digital 29-Oct-2018. |
