RS: To get to the site I took a pleasant stroll up the access track, which brought me to the tower. Arqiva and previously Crown Castle seem very anxious that you should know where you are so they provide no less than three signs to tell you!
When I was up at the site the wind was fierce and you could hear it whistling through the tower, quite eerie.
The feed to this site is interesting - it was a split feed between Tideswell Moor and Emley as some of the channels used here are very close to the Emley channels, making effective reception difficult, hence the horizontal troughs on Emley and the single vertical trough on Tideswell Moor. BBC 1 used Tideswell Moor, BBC 2 & ITV used Emley Moor, Channel 4 unknown. (This split arrangement ceased at DSO).
Also present here are the 4 major 2G phone networks (Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile and O2, in descending order). |
