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TAY BRIDGE

Photos by David Foord Robert Gordon, Mark Walker and Justin Smith, Aerials and TV Page last updated: 2016-04-25

Tay Bridge is located on the south side of the Tay Estuary. It's a medium power relay of Angus which also transmitted Channel 5 to the Dundee area.

Originally an IBA landlord site, Tay Bridge entered service with 3 UHF TV channels on the 28th November 1974, with Channel 4 from September 1983 and Channel 5 from the launch on 30th March 1997. DSO was on the 4th and 18th August 2010.

ILR Dundee (Radio Tay) launched on 17th October 1980.








The wrap around panels just below the top at 40m, were for Channel 5, with an omni-directional radiation pattern. The main UHF cylinder has a broad directional pattern to the north (350 deg), only.

On the evening of 15-Jun-2006 the Tay Bridge relay was put off the air by a feeder cable fire.


Following the fire two temporary towers were put up at the site...







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