Noticed this site has been on the hitlist for a while. With a day to kill, the weather not great for hill walking, I thought I'd go for a drive over this way, via Kyle of Lochalsh and the Skye Bridge.
I'd never been to this part of Skye before. I parked on the main road, and set off up the track. About half way up was a farmhouse with a lady in her kitchen cooking dinner. I asked if it was OK to head up to the tower and she said it was fine. I'd imagine the views on a good day would be pretty good, over towards the mainland and the Cuillin Hills, but the day I took these it was quite hazy, but most importantly not raining!
The feed to this site nowadays is via IP, but in the past I'm not sure how it was fed? Ofcom has in service of May 1997.
Dave Stanley has written: I have just seen the updated photos of Cnoc Malagan. I did the original installation of that site. Sadly, I have no old photos of it. The original feed was off air from Fort William Trislaig but it was not receivable at the site, so it was received elsewhere on Skye and relayed via a 50MHz link. It might have been that amateur radio site, but I am not sure. The path was in theory impossible but a visit found a place where the signal came in. It was all pretty marginal. Cnoc Malagan was a police site back then. It would have been mono also when installed. |
