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THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY
SKIPTON UHF
| Photos by Marshall Renwick and Lee Goulding | Page last updated: 2022-10-15 |
| This site which is located a few miles to the west of Skipton itself at East Marton provides television signals to quite a large area known as Craven which straddles the Yorkshire/Lancashire border. This area is on the fringe of both Winter Hill and Emley Moor, neither of which adequately serve the area due to the hilly terrain. Originally an ITA landlord site, BBC 2 entered service on the 21-Jul-1969 as a relay of Winter Hill with site number 103.04. By the time that BBC 1 was added in Jan-1972, the RBL source had been changed to Keighley and the site number to 104.04. ITV entered service on the 21-Jul-1972 and Channel 4 during May 1984. The UHF cylinder contains a southeast facing cardioid. DSO was on the 7th and 21st September 2011. |
| Above and below: this is not a well-populated site - in addition to the television broadcast aerials and two trough receiving aerials the tower has only a couple of microwave links, one mobile phone aerial, an aerial for the police airwave service and what looks like a band II VHF dipole. There are, however no band II transmissions from Skipton, as the area gets good FM reception from either Barnoldswick or Keighley. |
| The UHF troughs point towards Keighley which is about 11 miles to the east-southeast. |
Emley Moor | Keighley | Skipton MF | Skipton Town | Winter Hill
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