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Photos by Shaun Chew and Peter Barrington Page last updated: 2023-03-01
Little Shurdington Gloucestershire
NGR: SO913175 Maps: Google  Bing (Ord Surv)   Site Height: 69m      Structure Height: 65m
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Comments: Transmitted Smooth Radio on 774kHz until 28-Jun-2023.

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Little Shurdington was built by the IBA for the Gloucester & Cheltenham ILR service which launched on 23rd October 1980 as Severn Sound.

This is a very typical ILR MF site. In this case a mast with a sloping wire reflector to direct the radiation pattern away from other co-channel transmitters. Within the UK, GE75 also allocated 774 kHz to Enniskillen, Leeds and Plymouth. The frequency was also used by BBC Kent at Littlebourne.

Little Shurdington features in an IBA Technical Review about MF sloping wire reflectors, commenting that this site is the most geometrically compressed (short) aerials. Link to the review at the foot of this page.























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Enniskillen | Farnley | Littlebourne | Plumer Barracks (Plymouth MF)

Directional MF aerials with sloping wire reflectors (IBA Technical Review 23, page 27 onwards).

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