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THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY
| Photos by Dan Glover | Page last updated: 2012-06-15 |
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| Ewood Park was a self-help relay (transposer) of Winter Hill. It is also home to a low power AM "Match Day" station. The self-help appears to have transmitted both horizontal and vertical polarisation, using a number of "fireguard" antennas attached to the Jack Walker Stand. This was probably to provide signals to those who had previously used the Blackburn relay as well as any receiving directly from Winter Hill. We understand that the relay was decommissioned at DSO - but there are a significant number of aerials still aimed at Ewood Park. Maybe there's enough signal now that this doesn't matter? At the time of my visit it had been raining heavily, which had an impact on the quality. Grey skies, grey buildings, grey antennas... |
| The yagi above the roof may well be the receive antenna and shows the direction of Winter Hill. There's a vertically polarised transmit antenna facing us - and a horizontally polarised one round the corner |
| This is the south west corner of the stadium and would tend to obstruct reception from the Blackburn relay - hence VP transmission... |
| ...just round the corner, however, we have a horizontally polarised antenna pointing roughly west. It's the wrong direction for receive, and also seems in the wrong place to act as a Winter Hill substitute for those to the west of the stadium. Hmm. |
| We're now at the north west corner. Facing us is a horizontally polarised antenna - which is what anyone trying to receive Winter Hill from this side would need. Round the corner, slightly further along, this time we have a vertically polarised antenna |
| The detail of the HP antenna at this end didn't come out. The VP antenna is, probably, positioned correctly for those who are alongside the stadium and originally used the Burnely Relay |
| This is an unintended consequence of providing HP and VP transmissions |
| Radio Rovers transmits on 1404kHz from this top-loaded antenna in one of the car parks... |
| ...it's a mast radiator, but derived from a Versatower or similar syle telescopic/tilt model |
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