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THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY
| Photos by Rob Shufflebotham | Page last updated: 2011-06-13 |
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| MATV (Midlands Asian Television) was an Analogue TV station broadcasting to the Leicester area on CH68. The OFCOM lists suggested that the TX was located at New York Farm, near Syston. It turns out that if you wanted to find a place where there wasn't an MATV TX, that was a great place to look. Unsusprisingly, therefore, my two visits there revealed absolutely nothing! Some discussion was had about this site on the list after contributor Roger Piper also visited New York farm and found no Tx. Information was provided by Ben Smith, another contributor to whom I owe a great deal of thanks, that showed the Tx was in fact at Ratcliffe College, on an O2 mobile phone mast. It turns out that New York Farm was the original site chosen for the TX, but it was never used. Instead the TX was put here. The reason is as yet unknown. These photographs were taken in the pouring rain during one of Britain's "Summer" Sundays, hence the lack of views from the site. You can't actually see Leicester from ground level at the site, mainly due to tree cover on top of the hill. |
| The newest piece of site signage is to be found on the floor under the trees! Original One2One signage still exists elsewhere on the site. |
| As you approach the site from the West, the Tx Antennas are hidden in the metalwork. As I approached I assumed the antennas had been removed! |
| Once you get to the tower you spot the antennas right at the top, just under the O2 metalwork. |
| Go on then, here's the antennas. 4 Horizontal logs so as to allow reception on Leicester aerials directed at Waltham without adjustment. The dish may have something to do with the STL arrangement, or it may be O2's. |
| From the side, the antennas are easily visible. |
| Site building |
| Following the feeders on the tower, I'd say the green cab is the one where the MATV Tx was/is. |
| Next to the side is this drunkenly leaning BT pole... |
| ...which leads to this spool of cable wrapped up and hung in a tree! Wonder what this once did. |
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