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Re: 405-Line VHF Aerials 2013 to the present day.
Recently spotted on the unused outbuildings of a hotel in Basingstoke, the band 3 aerial points approx NW with the UHF aligned to Hannigton perhaps.
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I've not seen a bracket like that before; all the ones I recall used U-bolts to attach the mast to the 'legs'.
It does look rather robust! "Back in the day" along my part of the Wales/Shropshire border it was quite common to see two 2-armed mitre-brackets one above the other, meaning 4 U-bolts to secure the mast (which generally held a 3-ele BI for Sutton Coldfield, and a couple of 5- or 7-ele BIII, one for Granada off Winter Hill, the other for Lichfield ATV) |
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Spotted overlooking Hungerford high-street this afternoon.
The BI "H" points south to Rowridge; the little BIII horizontally-polarised antenna with its director missing points at Membury, which is only a few miles away. The coax feeders swing freely in the breeze on their way to a diplexer mounted on the vertical mast. |
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This little BIII antenna is on a chimney in Marlborough. it points due East, down the valley to Membury. I think it [and its UHF buddy] were once a bit higher up - the mast looks to have slid down through the chimney-lashing bracket and it's the BIII reflector that's catching on the chimney thats stopping it sliding down further.
There's another similar one on a house about 50 Metres away but I couldn't get a shot of it from where I was stopped. |
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Hi. I attach a picture of a 3 element yagi dated 1952. It's at Bridlington, posted in "Bridlington Past and Present" a Facebook group. Can anyone here identify the antenna, the channel it could have been receiving, and what transmitter it is pointing to? That road is pretty much parallel to the coast so it's roughly north south, north at top. Thank. EDIT. Hope this post is kosher, considering the thread title.
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Great picture. I can guess it must have been Holme Moss channel 2 given the year. John.
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It surprises me that Bridlington would rely on Holme Moss so far away (60 miles). Never realised that Holme Moss served places quite large distances from it. One learns something new.
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Coverage map for Holme Moss, Bridlington appears to be listed as 100μv/m.
Another BBC doc suggests between 200 and 500 μv/m. http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/reports/1954-02.pdf
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The Engineers pocket book edition copy I have is 1960 and there were still plenty areas without a decent TV signal shown in the coverage maps
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Re: post no. 725,
The BI aerial is made by J-Beam (later known as Jaybeam). G6Tanuki can you confirm that the aerial does indeed point southwards to Rowridge and so would be a Channel 3. The reason I ask is because its proportions look like a Channel 1 (for Crystal Palace). Incidently, later on Hungerford had a BBC relay on Channel 4, 25 Watts, horizontal polarization. |
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The Holme Moss transmitter covered a large area. It was one of the first five main BBC transmitters. David tells me they received reasonable pictures in Newcastle.
There were quite a number of receivers that would have given a good picture at 100 micro/v metre. J. |
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Holme Moss was receivable in some parts of the North-East of England. I had a customer who told me his first set was tuned into the HM transmitter. The location was a farm house near the military road ten miles from the west end of Newcastle.
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Holme Moss was receivable in Bangor as we had a choice of BBC north and BBC Wales from Llandonna.
Slightly off topic when I lived in Beaumaris We got better UHF TV from Winter Hill than the local Llandonna transmitter. Keith |
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Since Holme Moss had only been on air for a short while compared to the date of the 'photo I wonder whether it was taken because of the 'magic' of TV in those days? I suspect the aerial was a Belling & Lee - but am not entirely sure. Certainly the fact that the folded dipole is parallel to the boom was a Belling & Lee trait. I agree that 100 uV/m would have given a reasonable picture on a fringe set - provided there was not too much 'old bangor' ignition interference ! |
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That small angle support seems strange, I don't think it is Belling-Lee and I didn't think that they used a folded dipole. What about Telerection or Aerialite?
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Re: 405-Line VHF Aerials 2013 to the present day.
Some similar aerials with an angled support only on the lower side are shown in a Belling & Lee aerial leaflet for August 1952. One is the "Multirod" four (straight) element array for fringe reception, said to be designed to withstand 80mph wind gusts. Not the one in the photo, which only has three elements, and none of the others have folded elements.
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