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THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY
Photos by David Foord and Peter Bigwood
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Westerglen is located in Stirlingshire, a few miles south-west of Falkirk.
It is one of three stations to transmit BBC Radio 4 on 198kHz Long wave and also transmits BBC Radio Scotland, Virgin Radio and TalkSPORT on Medium Wave.
It is one of the UK's earliest broadcast sites, entering public service way back on 12-Jun-1932.
There are four masts altogether
at the Westerglen site:
This last photo, below, taken by Peter Bigwood, shows the top of the Long Wave mast at Westerglen. Its a Marconi umbrella, where the topmost guys are connected electrically to the top of the mast, and form a downward sloping 'top hat'. This effectively increases the electrical length and so raising the radiation resistance, which draws more RF current into the radiator so it radiates more efficiently.
Feature: Inside Westerglen - photos and notes from the early 1940s
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