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THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY
THANET
| Photos by Dave Coppen and Dan Glover | Page last updated: 2023-09-09 |
| Dave's photos were taken some time ago, when the tower was relatively uncluttered. Thanet was built by the IBA for the East Kent ILR service which launched on 1-Oct-1984 as Invicta Radio on 95.9 MHz. DAB service dates: Digital One 13-Apr-2004; Kent 30-Apr-2004; BBC 29-Jan-2009. |
| DAB antennas are an obvious addition at the top of the main structure, with panels on all four sides (though the polar pattern is deliberately uneven). There's a satellite dish lower down which is likely to be for the DAB feed. The four six-element VP yagis are a slight mystery - when I contributed these photos I believed they were connected with fire service communications on around 70/80 MHz. That system has now been decommissioned and the folded dipoles shown on the left have been removed - yet the yagis remain. They face roughly west. Looking the other day at Bluebell Hill - also an Invicta but now Heart site - there is a similar group of yagis. Perhaps an RBL or RBS arrangement, albeit quite elaborately engineered? |
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