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THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY
KENDAL
| Photos by Peter Bigwood, Mark Carver, and Stefan Adams Grace. | Page last updated: 2023-05-05 |
| The original 1966 structures at Kendal were two 14.3m wooden poles when this site only transmitted 405-line BBC 1 and BBC National FM radio. There is a link at foot of this page to the BBC RD report of the 1966 arrangement. The current 45.7m square tower was built in the 1970's for UHF TV. The UHF cylinder contains a west-southwest facing cardioid antenna system. As built, the original 3 UHF TV services were all fed from the Lancaster transmitter, which in turn was rebroadcasting from Winter Hill - hence the vertically polarised trough receiving aerials. Consequently Kendal transmitted Granada ITV and BBC Northwest regional programmes. ITV was changed from Granada to Border ITV from the start of the new ITV franchises from 1-Jan-1982 and became line fed, as was Channel 4, when that was added at Kendal in 1984. |
| Photo was taken by Mark Carver back in Oct-1980, in the days when Kendal was a plain and simple UHF TV relay. |
| On the right are two band II log periodics receiving BBC FM radio from Morecambe Bay. To the left of the UHF cylinder is a 2 element slant polarised band II Yagi which transmits the 2 ILR services on 100.1 & 103.2 MHz. |
| The "arrowhead" aerial above transmits the BBC FM services. |
| Stefan Grace Adams visited the site more recently (Summer 2004) and spotted some new aerials at the top of the tower. These are the DAB aerials used by both the BBC and Digital 1. Although these services share the same aerials the BBC services are at somewhat lower power. |
Lancaster | Morecambe Bay | Winter Hill
BBC RD: Transmitting Aerials for the Kendal VHF Television and VHF Sound Station
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