hey folks been a while since I posted so here goes..
last time I see this site was about two years ago and it was in a bad state then now its even worse with fire damage and such the like.
I know this place has many reports so this is more of a update and to be fair I was shocked to find it still standing and still a walk-in
bit of history
At the end of the war the station was reconverted to cope with the rapidly increasing demand for overseas telephone circuits and it was soon found that the demand for those circuits was outstripping the available plant. Accordingly arrangements were made to purchase a further seven hundred acres of land adjoining the site and work was commenced on the construction of a new building to house twenty-eight transmitters of the most modern type.
The new station, probably the biggest ever built as a single project, was well in advance of any other in existence at that time in technique and in the extent to which it economised in manpower.
The HS51 type transmitters were manufactured by "Marconi" and were rated at 30 kW peak power output capable of transmitting virtually all types of telephone and telegraph signal with continuous coverage in the band 4-30MHz. The final and penultimate stages used grounded grid technique and negative feed back could be applied as required.
A two-fold plan was followed in designing the building. First the low power equipment, the high power equipment and the aerial switches were segregated in different parts of the building and secondly, a large measure of automatic control and monitoring was introduced centred at a Central Control Position making the station easy to operate and of pleasing appearance.
on with the pics
visted with chris34 and kathyms
thanks for looking
last time I see this site was about two years ago and it was in a bad state then now its even worse with fire damage and such the like.
I know this place has many reports so this is more of a update and to be fair I was shocked to find it still standing and still a walk-in
bit of history
At the end of the war the station was reconverted to cope with the rapidly increasing demand for overseas telephone circuits and it was soon found that the demand for those circuits was outstripping the available plant. Accordingly arrangements were made to purchase a further seven hundred acres of land adjoining the site and work was commenced on the construction of a new building to house twenty-eight transmitters of the most modern type.
The new station, probably the biggest ever built as a single project, was well in advance of any other in existence at that time in technique and in the extent to which it economised in manpower.
The HS51 type transmitters were manufactured by "Marconi" and were rated at 30 kW peak power output capable of transmitting virtually all types of telephone and telegraph signal with continuous coverage in the band 4-30MHz. The final and penultimate stages used grounded grid technique and negative feed back could be applied as required.
A two-fold plan was followed in designing the building. First the low power equipment, the high power equipment and the aerial switches were segregated in different parts of the building and secondly, a large measure of automatic control and monitoring was introduced centred at a Central Control Position making the station easy to operate and of pleasing appearance.
on with the pics
visted with chris34 and kathyms
thanks for looking
