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THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY
AVIEMORE
| Photos by John P Martin | Page last updated: 2024-10-03 |
| Fifteen years since the last photos, so high time for updates. Site access via a track off the B970 north out of Coylumbridge, just before Auchgourish. An SUV with 25cm ground clearance will get you right up to the tower, but walking from the first gate on the track is easy and takes about 40 minutes. I recommend morning or late afternoon for visiting, or you'll be photographing into the sun. Aviemore is RBL from Grantown which itself is RBL of Knock More. It transmits the 3-UHF channels of Freeview Lite at a power of 3W per channel to the north-west. Quite a few changes at the site since the 2009 photos - mostly the removal of a lot of PMR base aerials and the addition of mobile base-station ugliness. |
| The site |
| ... and again |
| Composite picture of the business part of the tower. This is the north-west facing aspect of the tower. From the top, we have mobile panels, some SHF link dishes and a little 3-element Yagi (presumably utilities remote metering). Then 4 tiers of log-periodics, crossed at 90 degrees. These are the TV Tx aerials, the centre line bearing is 320 degrees, so this gives wide coverage to Aviemore, Boat of Garten and Carrbridge. To their left is a pair of VP logs bearing 30 degrees, pointing at the parent station: Grantown. Below those, it's all SHF, mobile panels and Airwave apart from one single solitary folded dipole over on the right. For one awful moment I thought that R.Scotland had been inflicted on the tower, but it's clearly VHF hi-band PMR. (Detected a carrier at 140.151MHz with stationary sidebands - so it's probably a trunked base station. |
| Closer view of the Rx logs (left) and Tx logs (right) |
| The Rx pair of logs. No toe-in on these. |
| Evidence of removed services |
| The base of the tower |
| The walk up to the site is through dense mixed woodland and really very beautiful. A gap in the trees near the top reveals this view, across the valley, to Cairn Gorm itself. You can see the Cairngorm mountain railway and ski lifts |
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