The weather was reasonably kind to me today, and allowed me to take some snaps of the BT Hilltop Site at Riddings Hill, near Dumfries.
The Dumfries & Galloway ILR service launched on 21st May 1990 as South West Sound on 97.2 MHz from a transmitter site at Hazelshaw Hill, which is about 6 miles east of Dumfries. Riddings Hill is about 4.5 miles west of Dumfries. The transmitter was relocated here in December 1995, and the frequency changed to 97.0 MHz.
This transmitter is line fed from the studios in Dumfries. (It is an optout of West Sound, based in Ayr). The transmit antenna is the 2-element yagi shown on the tower top photo. Cambret Hill relays this on 103.0MHz, and in turn that is relayed from Cairn Pat, near Stranraer. |
