At 412m this is Winter Hill's highest relay, though at ground level I could not see over the high hills between them. Buxton was originally a BBC landlord site which entered service on 7-Dec-1973 as a relay of Sutton Coldfield with site number 102.24 to serve a population of about 23000 people. BBC 1 & 2 were changed to relay Winter Hill on 14-Aug-1980 and the site was renumbered 103.14. ITV was changed to relay Winter Hill with the start of the new franchises on 1-Jan-1982. Channel 4 was added on 3-May-1985.
BBC national radio was added on 21st December 1989, with Radio 1 from 17-Jan-1990, making Buxton the first new BBC FM relay to transmit Radio 1. Reception is from Sutton Coldfield. BBC Radio Derby was added on
29-Mar-2001, relaying Stanton Moor. ILR station High Peak Radio was added in April 2004 although I couldn't identify the transmit aerial for this station. It relays Buxworth.
It was very windy, and the VHF Rx aerials were blowing around quite a bit. Considering this is on a reasonable day in May, this site must get some incredibly strong winds during winter (this is Buxton after all), and I wonder if this has any effect on the quality of the re-transmitted signal from this site? |
