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THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY
PITLOCHRY
| Photos by Stuart Macdonald and Mike Pratt | Page last updated: 2015-06-22 |
| Pitlochry entered service on 21st December 1964 with both BBC 1, VHF channel 1, (closed July 1984), and BBC national FM radio. UHF TV on 3 channels went into service on 14th November 1975, with Channel 4 from September 1984. FM radio was converted to stereo in 1989 and Radio's 1 & 4 were added in 1993. BBC DAB went into service on 1st August 2011. |
| Stuart's photo is prior to the addition of DAB - at that point all broadcast services were from the tower on the right |
| Mike's photos show the DAB antennas and dish have been added to the "other" structure, shared with EE and Airwave |
| Original tower with UHF TV and FM radio - the two six-element yagis suggest difficulty in receiving Forfar. |
| The original Band II installation (see BBC Research Department report linked below) consisted of horizontal dipoles on bearings 200 and 350 giving a modified "figure of 8" radiation pattern. Pitlochry remains a horizontally polarised FM transmitter. The band II log periodic close to the top of the tower is the main receive aerial for Forfar. |
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