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Ovingdean East Sussex NGR: TQ358044 Maps: Google  Streetmaps (Ord Surv)   Site Height: 90m       Structure Height: 17m Digital TV: BBC A: 29   D3&4: 31   BBC B: 37   Analogue TV: BBC1: 65   BBC2: 42   ITV1: 44   Ch4: 68   National Radio: Local Radio: Digital Radio: Comments: Ovingdean is a relay of Whitehawk Hill. Pre B700 allocations: 49/50/55.

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Ovingdean is a small relay which transmits with both H & V components. The channel spacings were non-standard before DSO and Group E or W receiving aerials were required. Post DSO the channels are in group C/D. The RBL aerial is vertically polarised and takes Brighton (Whitehawk Hill) as its source. The pole also plays host to a bird scarer which seems remarkably similar to the one at Saltdean. Ovingdean was originally a BBC landlord site which entered service on 2-Mar-1983 with vertical polarisation only, to serve 2100 people. Channel 4 was added in May 1983 when Channel 4 was added at the parent site Brighton (Whitehawk Hill). Horizontally polarised transmissions were added in 1986.

Brighton (Whitehawk Hill) | Saltdean

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