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THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY
BEE LANE (PRESTON)
| Photos by Colin Simpkin | Page last updated: 2019-04-23 |
| In April 2019, Capital Lancashire launched on the transmitters which previously carried 2BR. Prior to the launch, Bee Lane was re-engineered to be an RBR of the Blackburn Hospital site. (Or "Blackburn Haslingden Road" in Arqiva parlance.) Colin took these photos on a visit to the site in March 2019, while the re-engineering work was in progress. Colin writes: "The tower is surprisingly tall, and is surrounded on three sides by private land. It was early evening, with a low, bright sun, and the only camera I had with me was my iPhone7. Unfortunately, all these factors meant that the quality of the photographs is not as good as I would have liked." |
| Viewed from the road, the tower is largely unchanged from previous photos, apart from the nicer weather, and the presence of two Arqiva engineers' cars parked by the compound! |
| Looking up the West side of the tower, the offset pair of Sira transmit aerials remain unchanged at the top right. There must be a new RBR receive aerial up there somewhere, but there is no obvious sign of it from this angle. Must be round the back... |
| Viewed from the South corner, we can just about make out a new-looking yagi on the right-hand side, tucked between the two tiers of cantilevered mobile phone aerials. |
| A crop from the previous photo, showing the yagi more clearly. It appears to be about the correct dimensions, and is pointing in an Easterly direction towards Blackburn, so we assume that must be the new RBR receive aerial. Colin comments: "I would probably have expected the receive aerial to be horizontally polarised, since the parent station transmits with mixed polarisation. However, I suspect the position and polarisation of the yagi have been chosen very carefully in this case, to minimise reception of the transmitted signal from Bee Lane itself. The transmit and receive frequencies are only 500kHz apart, so such unwanted reception could be a significant problem." |
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