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THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY

Photos by Mike D Smith and Robert Whittaker

Kenley
Landlord: BBC NGR: TQ329592 Site Height: 145m Structure Height: 30m
Analogue TV: BBC1: 40  BBC2: 46  ITV1: 43  Ch4: 50   
Digital TV:          
BBC Radio: R1: 98.0  R2: 88.4  R3: 90.6  R4: 92.8   
     
Ind. National Radio:    
Ind. Local Radio:    
     
Digital Radio:          
Comments: Kenley is a TV relay of Crystal Palace and an FM relay of Wrotham
More complicated setup at Kenley than the listings indicate. It's listed as 175W vertical, but there are in fact two TV broadcast arrays on the tower, one horizontally and one vertically polarised. The (presumably) original array consists of four pairs of crossed log periodics, vertically polarised. This is mounted on the north east face of the tower and points nominally in that direction. The other array is mounted on the back of the tower, and consists of eight horizontally polarised log periodics, four pointing north west and four pointing south east. There is also national FM radio at Kenley, with two vertical dipoles pointing to the north east. RX are log periodics on Crystal Palace for TV and Wrotham for FM.

Kenley serves part of the hilly area to the south of Croydon in Surrey, along with a handful of other relays such as Old Coulsdon, Cane Hill and Caterham.


The north east facing side of the tower. The crossed array of UHF logs and the VHF dipoles can be seen.


The south west corner of the tower. The logs are pointing roughly north west and south east.

A mystery UHF yagi, pointing south east. From the element spacing, at least band V if not above.

Obviously quite a major tree fall recently. Lots of smashed fencing but no apparent damage to any of the equipment.

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