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GRANTOWN

Photos by Martin Briscoe Page last updated: 2021-10-21

2002

The two full length images of the tower are stitched from three pictures.










By 2002 the FM Radio RBL receive aerials are now mounted on the main transmit tower. The two, 6 element band II Yagi's on the right of this picture are pointing towards Rosemarkie. The pair on the left towards Meldrum. In 2002 Meldrum is the RBL source for R1 - 4, Rosemarkie for R.Scotland.

The UHF receive aerials point towards Knock More, but do not receive the main band IV Knock More TV transmissions. Instead a directional band V beam was transmitted from Knock More on ch's 66/55/59/62 to provide the programme feeds to Grantown. In October 2003, BBC2 on ch55 was changed to ch64, due to adjacent channel interference from Knock More interim DTT mux D on ch56.

Some Grantown dates:

8-Feb-1965 BBC 1 enters service on VHF ch1. RBL Rosemarkie. Closed, 4-Apr-1983.
8-Feb-1965 BBC FM Radio enters service on 89.8 / 92.0 / 94.2 MHz. RBL Meldrum.
27-Jul-1979 UHF TV ch's 1 - 3 in service on ch's 51 / 44 / 41. RBL Knock More band V link.
1979/80 R.Scotland on 94.2 changed to 94.6 MHz and RBL changed to Rosemarkie.
Oct-1984 Channel 4 added on ch 47.
17-Nov-1993 FM Radio re-engineered for mixed polarisation and Radio's 1 & 4 added on 99.4 & 104.2 MHz, respectively.

Grantown index

Knock More | Meldrum | Rosemarkie

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