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THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY
GREENSIDE SCALP
| Photos by Mike Sherrit and Dan Glover | Page last updated: 2023-10-26 |
| This is an AM radio transmitter located on the banks of the river Tay serving Dundee and NE Fife. BBC documentation refers to this site as Dundee. |
| It's unlikely anything has changed at the MF site since Mike's visit. The structures in the background are three "jack up" oil rigs currently in Dundee for maintenance. The mast radiator here is tubular rather than a lattice and there's a sloping wire reflector to the right. |
| At the top we have the expected three stays ("guys") one of which is in-line with the mast. Running parallel to the mast, on the left, the "fall arrest" safety line and running diagonally on the right the anchorage for the sloping wire. What purpose do those "rings" around the top section of the the stays perform? Is it significant that the top stays (only) have a couple of insulators and wire sections? Everything else looks to be some sort of non-conductive "rope". |
| Down below, as expected, the mast is insulated at the base and fed at the bottom. |
| The sloping wire is held in position by springs and things and connected to the tuning unit on the right. |
| Dishes probably provide most of the feeds but there's also a Band II yagi and a UHF log periodic presumably facing Angus. |
| This sign looks to be almost new. The site number has been added by hand: 140777 |
| Station History Greenside Scalp replaced a transmitter located at the Caldrum Works in Dundee sometime in the 1950's or early 1960's. It opened with the Third Programme on 1546 kHz. 1-Oct-1968 Frequency changed to 1594 kHz and a new transmitter opened for Radio 2 on 1484 kHz. 23-Nov-1978 Radio 2 & Radio 3 closed. Radio 1 in service on 1053 kHz. 17-Oct-1980 ILR Dundee (Radio Tay) launched on 1161 kHz. Closed 12-Dec-2023. 30-Apr-1993 INR 2 (Virgin Radio) launched on 1242 kHz. Closed May 2018. 30-Jun-1994 Radio 1 on 1053 kHz closed. 14-Feb-1995 INR 3 (Talk Radio) launched on 1053 kHz. Closed 31-May-2023. |
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