| Just a few miles to the north of Whitworth is the town of Bacup, and this also has a TV Relay transmitter situated at the top of one of its hills. On a very murky and damp January afternoon I had a trip up to this site to take a few pictures.
The Bacup site is located at National Grid Reference: SD878224 and like the Whitworth relay, also radiates about 250 watts and transmits just the four main analogue channels (at least until it's converted to digital in 2009 anyway) vertically polarised in UHF Group B. This site takes its signals from the main north west transmitter at Winter Hill and then re-broadcasts them to the Bacup area, much of which is situated in a deep valley. The antenna also provides the feed for the nearby Whitworth transmitter as well. The mast is also festooned with a large number of other aerials as well, and according to the Sitefinder website at: http://www.sitefinder.ofcom.org.uk this is used by: Orange, O2, Vodafone and also for the TETRA system used by the emergency services. The main entrance, which is located down a short drive from the main gate, carries a warning sign advising visitors not to enter the premises, so no shot of the front gate here, but a little further on there a public footpath which runs right along the back of the compound, and that was were I took most of my shots from. Again it should be noted that under no circumstances should visitors enter the compound without permission, and a perfectly adequate view of this site can be obtained from easily accessible public areas. so there should be no need to anyway. This is another site that I plan to re-visit after the digital changeover in 2009 just to see if anything looks different. |
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The brick building houses the TV Transmitters, the other buildings the mobile phones and TETRA equipment 950x712 bacup19.jpg |
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This is the public footpath that runs along the back of the site 950x703 bacup23.jpg |
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