Back in the golden days of radio, in the evening we used the directional properties to do some DXing on medium wave. Turning your radioset 90 degrees to the "Piccadilly 261" signal (ferrite rod antenna great for that) other not so local stations could be received in the evening. I have (on tape) IDs from Plymouth Sound, Radio Clyde. LBC and BRMB were very dificult to catch. Same was true of the BBC Manchester on 206m but less success as it was a stronger local signal. I think that signal propagation and distance also have a factor in what you could and could not recieve. I have a recording of my friend, Chris, making a bit of a fool of himself on a phone in competition on Plymouth Sound with a bemused presenter wondering why some guy is calling in from Bolton!
@freddielaker2707
4 жыл бұрын
I'm in Blackpool (dont laugh!) I love this kind of thing but Im trying to find how the long wire on an official longwave transmitter is "woven". I have never got up too close to one, although I do see Inskip when/if I go past.
@princeofcupspoc9073
Жыл бұрын
2:45 Quick, someone ask that horse what he's doing there.
@andyhowlett2231
10 ай бұрын
The Ashton Moss West towers were built in 1972 IIRC to provide a MW outlet on 206 metres, 1457 kHz but were delayed. So the station used a hastily erected wire aerial slung-up in Cheetham Hill, Manchester. Prior to this the station was on VHF FM only, 95.1 MHz. The towers were damaged a few years later in high winds and were rebuilt with those unusual tops. *Disclaimer* Dates, facts and details may not be correct due to fading memory! Aaargh, shoot me now...
@frankjohnson7204
2 ай бұрын
You say that the 3 towers were damaged by high winds but this was not the case and it's a "funny" story. These towers are each mounted on 3x oil filled insulators. Each had an oil expansion tank. We received an instruction from the tower's US manufacturers to remove all the expansion tanks and fit blanking plugs, which we did during a night shift. The next morning, I was on duty at Home Moss, the service was shut-down and a two man team was dispatched to sort-out the problem. When the team got close to site, one said "Hey, one of those TWO masts is leaning". The other engineer replied "Never mind the one that's leaning, there should be THREE. The oil filled insulators had expanded and failed catastrophically! One tower was down, another leaning over and the other apparently OK. We had to hastily resurrect the old site at Cheetham Hill whilst the towers were replaced but in the short time that the old site had been disused, the gypsies had ripped out the earth mat and were stealing electricity.
@andyhowlett2231
2 ай бұрын
@@frankjohnson7204 Thanks for the correction, Frank. As I said, my memory of this event is foggy now, and I recall there seemed to be two versions of the story at the time. One said the towers had been 'damaged', the other said they had collapsed. Pity we didn't have the internet back then, as it would have been full of real-time photos and videos!
@JaySubi53
7 жыл бұрын
Do you work with the antennas mate?
@RingwayManchester
7 жыл бұрын
No mate why
@JaySubi53
7 жыл бұрын
Just wondered mate I'm looking to find a career scaling them
@harrybroughton4999
6 жыл бұрын
Me too also based in Oldham :(
@harrybroughton4999
6 жыл бұрын
Lees transmitter was built in 1992 but knowing the local area well I cannot think of a single location in Lees, Springhead, Grotton etc. that cannot pick up Saddleworth or Winter Hill hence why I don't really see the point of Lees transmitter at all if I'm being honest! a very strange one ... Saddleworth transmitter for TV does ouput quite far down to the South past Stalybidge and Hyde and beyond.
@RingwayManchester
6 жыл бұрын
Cheers for the info! Interesting stuff. Can I ask how you footprint of Saddleworth and Lees?
@harrybroughton4999
6 жыл бұрын
What do you mean 'footprint'. :)
@RingwayManchester
6 жыл бұрын
So you said Saddleworth ouputs down past stalybridge and hyde. And Lees, springhead, grotton all pick up saddleworth and winter. So how do you know the coverage :)
@harrybroughton4999
6 жыл бұрын
ukfree.tv has coverage maps of all transmitters in the UK if you have a browse around. Saddleworth transmitter outputs VERY LITTLE to the West across Oldham and Manchester and beyond - largely since these areas are covered by Winter Hill anyway and Saddleworth is co-channelled with Moel-Y-Parc in Wales (hence why you can often get Welsh signals in Oldham/Manchester area). This means for example Scouthead which has line of site to Saddleworth and is only 2-3 miles away cannot receive good signals. Grotton, Springhead and Lees are also therefore not officially 'covered' by the Saddleworth relay and only patchy coverage is available. Instead, the Saddleworth transmitter outputs Northwards (though due to hills not further North than Denshaw) and Southwards (towards Mossley and Stalybridge where it is widely used, I guess signals will probably travel further too). ukfree.tv/maps/tvregions/51
@RingwayManchester
6 жыл бұрын
Cheers for the info :)
@msn164
7 жыл бұрын
Oldham Edge doesn't broadcast any radio and is a relay of Winter Hill, as is Lees. Holme Moss doesn't transmit TV but is in Yorkshire so when it did it wouldn't be in the correct region. Saddleworth transmits BBCs nationals in FM and DAB, full service DTV (excl HD), Radio Manchester, Key103, Digital One, and DAB Manchester. Oldham's two FMs broadcast atop Oldham Civic Centre, despite the studio for one being a couple of metres away from that mast!
@RingwayManchester
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the info Joe! Much appreciated mate
@harrybroughton4999
6 жыл бұрын
When Holme Moss did transmit TV though before the 1980s the regions were one for both sides of the Pennines (BBC North and ITV)
@TheMisphit
3 жыл бұрын
You said 5 watt transmitter but it's actually 5 kilowatts... (1,000 times more)
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