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This was our first port of call on the Wales 4 day madness trip. All the building that form the transmitter site are now in private ownership, we were lucky to find the owner of this
building working on the outside getting it ready for the winter. The plan for this building is for the owner to live in one area and then turn the rest of the site/building in to a radio museum.
Just a wee bit of history from wiki-thing-a-ma-bob.
Criggion Radio Station was a transmitter site latterly operated by BT on behalf of the MOD. It was located near the village of Criggion which is north of Welshpool.
It was established in World War II as a back-up unit for Rugby Radio Station and took over the latter's traffic for a short period in 1943 following a fire at Rugby. Operating on 19.6kHz
with the callsign GBZ, the station was used until its shutdown on April 1, 2003 for sending messages to submarines.
OK on with a few pictures.
This is the main building.
Time to pop inside, we were lucky that the owner showed us around and explained what each room was used for.
Stairs leading down in to a lower level plant room.
Plant room and steel ladder, the ladder goes up in to a roof space which did house a water tank.
This is the main tansmitter hall, the Massive HV HF transmitter would of been to the right in this picture.
To the left in the main hall, this would of housed some HV power equipmnent.
This is outside and until the 1970`s had a HV transformer on it, it was then later moved insude the transmitter building.
Well thats about it for No3 HV HF transmitter building, thanks for looking
all comments are most welcome, as per there are more pictures on my FlickR page so if you want more just popo over to :-
https://www.flickr.com/photos/newage2/sets/72157646634140253/
Cheers Newage
This was our first port of call on the Wales 4 day madness trip. All the building that form the transmitter site are now in private ownership, we were lucky to find the owner of this
building working on the outside getting it ready for the winter. The plan for this building is for the owner to live in one area and then turn the rest of the site/building in to a radio museum.
Just a wee bit of history from wiki-thing-a-ma-bob.
Criggion Radio Station was a transmitter site latterly operated by BT on behalf of the MOD. It was located near the village of Criggion which is north of Welshpool.
It was established in World War II as a back-up unit for Rugby Radio Station and took over the latter's traffic for a short period in 1943 following a fire at Rugby. Operating on 19.6kHz
with the callsign GBZ, the station was used until its shutdown on April 1, 2003 for sending messages to submarines.
OK on with a few pictures.
This is the main building.
Time to pop inside, we were lucky that the owner showed us around and explained what each room was used for.
Stairs leading down in to a lower level plant room.
Plant room and steel ladder, the ladder goes up in to a roof space which did house a water tank.
This is the main tansmitter hall, the Massive HV HF transmitter would of been to the right in this picture.
To the left in the main hall, this would of housed some HV power equipmnent.
This is outside and until the 1970`s had a HV transformer on it, it was then later moved insude the transmitter building.
Well thats about it for No3 HV HF transmitter building, thanks for looking
all comments are most welcome, as per there are more pictures on my FlickR page so if you want more just popo over to :-
https://www.flickr.com/photos/newage2/sets/72157646634140253/
Cheers Newage
