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THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY
Photos by Rob Shufflebotham
Comments by Ray Cooper
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Rugely is located at a school. Thankfully it was a Sunday afternoon, so a man stood in a field with a camera taking pictures of a school didn't arouse too much suspicion. The Tx sits on a school roof and transmits back towards the Sutton Coldfield station it relays, serving a housing estate on the side of a bank sheltered from Sutton. The rough direction of transmission is down the hedge on the left of the large panorama. |
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It's a pity that photo 3 didn't include the complete transmitting array: on the left of the photo you can see the rear-end of two VP logs pointing in the opposite direction. These are part of the TX array, and fill-in an area further up the hillside. The main area, down in the town, is by no means lacking in signal strength from Sutton - unfortunately it's riddled with DII -Delayed Image Interference ("ghosting") due to the cooling towers at Rugeley power station making life a misery for the inhabitants in televisual terms. This also explains the use of a four-toed-in log array for the RX aerial - certainly not needed in field strength terms, but vital to get a clean ghost-free signal. |

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