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THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY
CROESERW
| Photos by Martin Brown | Page last updated: 2022-09-03 |
| A new UHF transmit aerial system has been installed at Croeserw for 700 MHz band clearance. Clearance was implemented here on 17-Oct-2018. |
| The first thing to note when compared with the pictures that Ben Smith took is that nearly all of the trees have gone. |
| The new flat faced UHF transmit panels. Also the two horizontally polarised log periodics have been removed. We think that they were used to feed the Glyncorrrwg relay. |
| Band II FM radio transmit panels. |
| The original UHF trough receive aerial still in use to receive the transmissions from Presely It is unusual that the orientation of this tower isn't arranged so that one of the faces of the tower is square to the direction of the UHF RBL source. Saves all that additional steelwork required to mount the receive trough offset from the tower. A 1973 IBA transmitter booklet lists the future Croeserw site as a Wenvoe relay with site number 106.27. However, Wenvoe lies to the southeast, whilst the Croeserw tower is oriented to be square to north/south/east/west. So relaying Wenvoe directly also seems unlikely. Kilvey Hill was a high powered analogue Wenvoe relay, due west of Croeserw and transmitted on channels in aerials group A. So I suspect that Kilvey Hill was to have been the original RBL source and later was used as such for BBC FM radio. |
| Cutting from IBA transmitter booklet 1973. |
| FM radio receive from Kilvey Hill. |
| Satellite dishes. The upper is for telemetry, lower is providing a backup feed for the BBC DTT multiplexes. |
| Foel Fynyddau about 5 miles away. |
Foel Fynyddau | Glyncorrwg | Kilvey Hill | Presely | Wenvoe
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