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THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY

Photos by Rob Shufflebotham
Comments by Ray Cooper

Rugeley Staffordshire
Landlord: BBC NGR: SK034179 Site Height: 102m Structure Height:
Analogue TV: BBC1: 66  BBC2: 48  ITV1: 56  Ch4: 68   
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Comments: Rugeley is a relay of Sutton Coldfield
   

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.

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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