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THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY
RUMSTER FOREST
| Photos by Peter Bigwood | Page last updated: 2023-11-27 |
| Rumster Forest is the most northerly main station in mainland Britain, bringing TV and radio to the Caithness and Sutherland area in NE Scotland. It entered service transmitting 405-line ITV on VHF channel 8 on 25-Jun-1965. Closed April 1983. UHF TV transmissions commenced on 24-Dec-1973 to serve about 43,000 people. Channel 4 was added in February 1984. Interim DTT from December 1998. BBC FM radio entered service on 16-Mar-1984 on 90.1 / 92.3 / 94.5 replacing Thrumster as the transmitter for this area. Radio's 1 & 4 were added on 6-Aug-1993 on 99.7 & 104.5 respectively. Radio 4 was changed to 95.6 on 23-Apr-2002. Radio nan Gaidheal entered service on 6-Aug-2003 on 104.6. Despite being an Arqiva site Classic FM is not transmitted. |
| From the top. UHF main cylinder (234m), analogue channels 1 - 4 & interim DTT multiplexes 1, 2, A & B. BBC FM radio aerial (209m). Interim DTT multiplexes C & D (190m) |
Keelylang Hill A | Thrumster | Thurso
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