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THE TRANSMISSION GALLERY
Photos by Brian Hutchison
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Thanks to Aub McKibben for the picture below of the original mast at the BBC's historic Lisnagarvey site - also known locally, at the time, as Blaris, apparently. The photo was originally printed in the BBC Annual, 1936
The top section of the mast was removed many years ago and now stops at the third platform up. Some services (R4 and R Ulster?) are radiated by the mast itself while other services are radiated by more conventional wire antennas suspended from adjacent supports. It may be the size and shape of the mast which make Radio Ulster audible over a wide area, including parts of England sometimes as far south as London!
The extensive old transmitter halls at this site and offices are the main base for Crown Castle's maintenance operations in N.I.
Brian Hutchison took the photos below. He says: "While this mast is very efficient it also causes a lot of problems for the computer networks in the neighbouring car dealers. It is rumoured that this mast will be dismantled in the next year or so, and either moved or replaced by another mast elsewhere."
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