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THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY
CUPAR
| Photos by John P Martin | Page last updated: 2025-04-09 |
| The Cupar relay, in the Kingdom of Fife, has to be one of the most accessible sites ever. It's right next to an Aldi carpark and there's a super Fisher & Donaldson bakery & tea-room right next door. The relay is RBL Angus (Dundee) but only transmits the 3-MUX Freeview Lite service. It serves approx 4,500 homes with 4W ERP. The reason for the visit was that the receive trough aerial was likely changed as part of the 700MHz clearance exercise in November 2019, when the Angus channel group shifted down to the lower part of Band V. The transmit channels remained the same as at DSO. |
| Easy access or what? |
| No entry to the site itself, though. High fence with barbed wire and locked gates. The site borders a Primary School playing field, so quite understandable. |
| Standard Arqiva signage |
| Equipment huts plus a satellite dish: purpose unknown. There is no DAB at this site. |
| So, from the top, 2 bays of 4 UHF Tx panels, vertically polarised. |
| From OFCOM data, the UHF panels substantially fill the west-north quadrant, which essentially covers the town of Cupar. |
| The new receive aerial, dutifully pointing at Angus. It doesn't actually look that new, but it has been there at least four-and-a-half years. It is clearly a different from the one in Dan Glover's 2009 photos. |
| From another angle |
| The whole tower, as seen from Aldi's carpark. This is the west-facing side of the tower. |
| The east-facing view of the whole tower |
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