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THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY
LUCCOMBE
| Photos by Paul Marsh | Page last updated: 2022-02-28 |
| This Hannington relay is situated near Luccombe Village, between Shanklin and Ventnor and seems to serve a coastal strip between those two towns. Many TV aerials in the lower lying areas of Shanklin, including the old village were pointing towards it. The mast is located about a 1/4 mile along a private road opposite a house. The aerials are all log periodics, in photo 4 those pointing left are towards Shanklin, (north) and those to the right towards Luccombe Village and Chine. The lower pair of horizontal logs are in about the right direction for Hannington, the upper pair could be looking at Rowridge, do any of the channels use Rowridge as a feed, my info may be out of date? [Not according to the BBC and Ofcom sites - mb] An IBA Engineering Bulletin from November 1986 reads: "To provide TV to about 270 people in parts of Luccombe Village and in the southern part of Shanklin and along the coast to Little Stairs Point." The service date was 26-Dec-1986 with UHF channel allocations of 56/62/59/34. The Channel 4 allocation was changed from ch34 to ch37 to permit ch34 to be used by Channel 5 at Fawley, probably during 1996. Only two other sites used UHF channel 37 for a non Channel 5 service. Middleton (Channel 4) and Norden (BBC 2). DSO was on 7th and 21st March 2012. |
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