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THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY
Photos by Peter Bigwood and Shaun Chew
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So, here's Marlborough.
Peter Bigwood reports that it was quite a climb up a muddy track from the valley, the road
to the site being "aggressively private".
Originally the ITV/Ch4 services were a relay of Hannington while the BBC services relayed Mendip. It now appears all the services are derived from Mendip via the four log-periodics. You can just make out the loop and dipole Tx antennas for GWR below the BBC Band II array. These were installed in 1988, a few years before the BBC installed their national FM services, and BBC Wiltshire relay. As far as we know both Wilts. Sound and GWR get their feeds from Blunsdon. BBC Network radio is sourced from an RBL feed of Oxford. Presumably these antennas are on the left side (north face) of the mast. Blunsdon at the top, Oxford the two stacked yagis a third of the way up by the look of it. |
Shaun Chew's more recent photos show the addition of the DAB aerials used for NOW Digital Swindon.
The view from the site shows the village of
Mildenhall and the River Kennet in the valley below the mast.
Blunsdon | Lacock | Naish Hill | Newton Barrow | Swindon
BBC Wiltshire Sound coverage map
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