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THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY
| Photos by Ben Smith | Page last updated: 2021-12-10 |
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| The Knucklas transmitting station is located half way up the side of the Teme valley in Shropshire, close to the Welsh border. It is about 2 miles to the northwest of the picturesque town of Knighton near a small hamlet known as Skyborry Green and the access road is very steep and very twisty. It was also, as seems normal whenever I get my camera out this year for mb21, bucketing it down! The target area is the small village of Knucklas itself, and a few other households to the south-southeast where the reception of the Garth Hill Tx is not possible. (Due to them being in the shadow of... erm... Garth Hill!!). It's a fairly standard mast with one horizontal log on the parent station, Garth Hill, and three others providing transmissions to the target area. |
| The vertically polarsied transmit aerials at the top. A single log periodic pointing roughly south-southeast, and two pointing roughly west-southwest towards the village of Knucklas. A single horizontal log is used to receive Garth Hill. |
| The relay's target audience is down there somewhere, apparently! |
| An IBA Engineering Bulletin from December 1986 reads: To serve about 250 people in Knucklas and the immediately surrounding area, including a small area north-west of Knighton and another small area at Bwlch-y-Plain not served by the modifications to the Garth Hill relay. The service date was 2-Jan-1987. |
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