This site was a bit difficult to find at first, as it's fairly tree-locked (although it doesn't look it from the photos) and on private property.
Once I had secured permission to access the site from the landowner (having had to convince him in the process that I wasn't a pheasant poacher!) I was able to get some clear shots.
It's located at the top of quite a steep hill, the access track secured by an unmarked gate - the last section of which was about a 3:1 gradient !
The station uses a log as the receive aerial about halfway up the North-Eastern leg, which has a great unobstructed view of the parent station - The Wrekin - and relaying it via a 4 cardoid stack pointing roughly Westwards about 2/3rds of the way up the tower.
One thing I noticed was it looked like a fairly recently built structure, and a quick investigation of the site revealed the remains of the old mast with the bottom section still in-situ, but unfortunately devoid of the old TX aerials (which I assume would have been logs).
[Ed] The original 1990 structure was a 17m lattice pole. This was replaced with this tower in May 2000. |
