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Photos by Rob Shufflebotham Page last updated: 2016-02-09
Lickey Hills Worcestershire
NGR: SO991752 Maps: Google  Bing (Ord Surv)   Site Height: 280m      Structure Height:
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Updated (text) January 2016

Rob: "Lickey Hills is a small local DAB filler site for SW Birmingham with a great name. It's about 10 minutes' drive up quite a steeply sloping residential area - called Lickey - to get to the site, and there are a couple of masts up there, one for mobiles only, and one for the DAB

This one is a siteshare inside a Severn Trent water site. The mast is surrounded by trees and a high thorny hedge"

BBC DAB was added in December 2015 - The local multiplex had been here since June 2008. We noticed the Ofcom parameters show a strange polar pattern with maximum ERP on bearing 200 but with some coverage to the north east and deep nulls in other places. This prompted a further examination of the photos and the captions have been updated to reflect our current understanding






For orientation purposes, the satellite dish (which may or may not form part of the DAB installation) should be facing approximately south. The two dipoles on the right hand side are certainly of a familiar type for DAB and oriented slightly to the west of south




Rob commented: "When snapping the photos it was rather dark, and I assumed the 2 antennas (looking roughly South back to the M42/M5 junction) were the broadcast aerials, but if you zoom in on the left of the tower, there's a more northerly facing antenna, which looks more conventionally DAB shaped, and which was enough to totally overpower my pure highway, with my car parked directly in the centre of the beam, about 5m away!"


Indeed there is a 5-element yagi...we now believe this operates in conjunction with the dipoles to provide additional coverage

A planning application in 2007 sought approval for "Installation of 3 broadcasting antennae..." - unfortunately detailed plans are not available as the works were considered not to need formal approval



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