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June 2010 Update

 

 

 

 

 

 New Additions:

 

Arfon  Beacon Hill  Caradon Hill  Huntshaw Cross  Stockland Hill  The Wrekin

 

General Updates:

 

Croydon  Crystal Palace  Lichfield  North Hessary Tor  

 

DSO Updates:

 

Angus  Belmont  Black Hill  Llanddona  Moel-y-Parc  Sudbury  Tacolneston 

 

 

 

 


 

Hello and Welcome to The Big Tower !

This site is all about broadcast transmitting stations in the United Kingdom, focusing primarily on the main television transmitter sites (both past and present) and those forming part of the high power VHF radio transmitter network.

My aim is to provide technical and historical background on every transmitter site included, supported by images of the masts and site buildings that I have been gathering since 2001.  

I also hope to provide regular photographic updates of the work that is taking place over the next few years in connection with Digital Switchover.   

So why The Big Tower ?

I thought I'd better answer this question in case anyone was wondering.

Quite simply my interest in transmitters derives from a childhood fascination with what I referred to at the time as 'The Big Tower', the tower in question being the Emley Moor tower which I was lucky enough to live close to in my early years.   

Furthermore, I also wanted a name that would be easy to remember as well as broadly reflecting the fact this site deals principally with main transmitters.  Having then considered several rather long names featuring 'transmitter' or 'mast', I felt this one best served the purpose.

Screen Resolution

This site has been designed principally for 1024 x 768 with some accommodation for 800 x 600, but it's definitely best suited to the former.

Almost all images have been sized to fit the screen but depending on your settings you may need to use the F11 key to fully view portrait images (especially those in Supersize format), aerial close-up images and certain landscape enlargements.

Please bear with me

This site is still in the early stages of development.  Some pages are more complete than others but whatever you see today will be improved upon or added to in due course.

Feedback

Your feedback on this site, both positive and negative, is welcomed so please feel free to contact me


 

Transmitters A-K

Transmitters L-Z

 

 

Angus

Lichfield

Arfon

Llanddona

Ashkirk

Manningtree

Beacon Hill

Meldrum

Belmont

Mendip

Bilsdale

Mendlesham

Black Hill

Moel-y-Parc

Black Mountain

Mounteagle

Burnhope

 North Hessary Tor

Caldbeck

Oxford

Caradon Hill

Peterborough

Chillerton Down

Pontop Pike

Craigkelly

 Redruth

Croydon

Rosemarkie

Crystal Palace

Rowridge

Divis

Sandale

Dover

Selkirk

Durris

Stockland Hill

Emley Moor

Sudbury

Forfar

Sutton Coldfield

Holme Moss

 Tacolneston

 Huntshaw Cross

 The Wrekin

 Kirk o'Shotts

 Waltham

 

  Winter Hill

 

 

 


Links to Related Sites


mb21: The Transmission Gallery

 

 

A.T.V (Aerials and Television)

Lamberts Aerials

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

BBC Reception

Digital UK

Digital TV Group

Ofcom

Arqiva

 

 

 

 

 


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