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Fry's Hill Somerset NGR: ST436557 Maps: Google  Streetmaps (Ord Surv)   Site Height: 238m       Structure Height: Digital TV: National Radio: Local Radio: 100% Whatever Westcountry: 100.5   Digital Radio: Comments:

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Pictures taken May 2013

Owned by Surf telecom, Fry's Hill has been a non-broadcast site until 2013. Pulse Radio (an Ofcom-licenced community radio station) selected this site for transmission of its signal serving Cheddar and surrounding areas in Somerset on 104.4MHz. Despite the relatively low power licensed by Ofcom (25 w vertical + 25w horizontal), and the antenna null required at 345 degrees the signal propagates very well, especially to the south where this site demands panoramic views.

View from access road through quarry

Closer view from East. The Pulse aerial is the 2 element folded dipole on left leg - about halfway up just below the big colinear

A close-up of the transmission antenna. Yes it is not straight - it is slanted - this is a pragmatic design decision to permit (partial) utilisation of horizontal licence power using simple antenna array.

Pulse 104.4 Studio-Transmitter link

View from ground level to South-west over Severn Estuary to North Devon

Pulse 104.4 Studio

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