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THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY
| Photos by Dan Glover | Page last updated: 2017-05-08 |
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| Funky SX (pronounced "Funky Essex") "is for young people aged 35 and under in Southend-on-Sea" and launched on 16 March 2016. In terms of engineering the station has gone for the model: "simple antenna on a tall building in the middle of the area". This seems to work reasonably well. Coverage beyond the service area is likely to be limited by interference. The hospital site appears on paper to be better than Maitland House, about 2.5 km away - but the services from there are at significantly higher power. |
| Dipoles of all sorts abound - many seem to have been in place quite a while. Clearly an established site for communications - but which is the broadcast antenna? |
| There's more to be seen round the back. Ofcom data suggests an omnidirectional pattern and most of the dipoles are for other things anyway. |
| The colinear on the left seems the most likely and when the light was right also seemed quite new. The presence of the other poles and towers perhaps creates a few directional effects but probably mostly to the south where coverage is really only needed for a couple of miles. The studio is about 1 km to the south east, at a school. An SHF link could be viable but nothing was obvious in the photos and I didn't have time to check at the other end. As schools and hospitals tend to have reasonably good connectivity an IP-based link is also a possibility. |
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