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THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY

Photos by David Foord, Peter Vrakking and Jonathan Naylor

Swingate
Landlord: NGR: TR334429 Site Height: Structure Height:
Digital TV:          
BBC Radio: R1: 99.5  R2: 90.0  R3: 92.4  R4: 94.4   
  Radio Kent: 104.2   
Ind. National Radio:    
Ind. Local Radio:    
     
Digital Radio:          
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Swingate, near Dover, provides BBC FM radio services to those parts of SE Kent
not served by the Wrotham station.

The 3 towers are what remains of the original 4l Chain Home radar transmitting towers built around 1938.

One of the towers was the British end of the first live cross-channel TV transmission on 27 August 1950. A 4.7GHz microwave link was used direct to
the clock tower in Calais.

The centre of tower is the one carrying the Band II broadcast aerials.

Swingate from the cross-channel ferry:

The plan, below shows the original configuration of the Swingate tower and the Band I/II aerials.

Dover

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