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THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY
BARROW
| Photos by Peter Bigwood | Page last updated: 2023-10-20 |
| Apparently the transmitter at Barrow kept tripping out at around dusk each day but by the time the engineers arrived there was no evident cause. So, they laid in wait... At around dusk huge flocks of starlings collected on the top wires on their way to roost. This upset the electrical balance of the antenna sufficiently to trip the transmitter. The solution? You can just see two large plastic owls atop each support mast. Isn't nature wonderful? Barrow entered service transmitting the North Home Service on 1484 kHz on 7-Oct-1951. The frequency was changed to 1052 kHz on 2-Sep-1972 on what was now Radio 4. The frequency changes on 23-Nov-1978 saw the 1052 kHz transmitter transferred to Radio 1 retuned to 1053 kHz also a new transmitter for Radio 2 was added on 693 kHz. Radio Cumbria launched on 25-May-1982 on 837 kHz. From 27-Aug-1990, 693 kHz was re-assigned to Radio 5. Radio 1 closed on 30-Jun-1994. |
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