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THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY
SWINGATE
Photos by David Foord, Jonathan Naylor and Craig Burns | Page last updated: 2016-01-13 |
Swingate, near Dover, provides BBC FM radio services to those parts of SE Kent not served by the Wrotham station. The 3 towers are what remains of the original 4 Chain Home radar transmitting towers built around 1938. One of the towers was the British end of the first live cross-channel TV transmission on 27 August 1950. A 4.7GHz microwave link was used direct to the clock tower in Calais. The centre tower is the one carrying the Band II broadcast aerials |
Swingate from the cross channel ferry. |
BBC RD: Service area of the Dover television and VHF sound transmitters (1962)
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