Kirk o'Shotts transmitting station

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The Kirk o'Shotts transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications site between Glasgow and Edinburgh in central Scotland. (Kirk o'Shotts means 'Church of Shotts'.)

The BBC 405-line television service started from Kirk o'Shotts on 14th March 1952 using low power reserve transmitters (Marconi). Full service began on 17 August 1952 using the main high power transmitters (Vision EMI Type 5704, Sound STC Type CTS-12). The station provided a service to a potential 4.1 million viewers and operated on Channel 3 (Vision 56.75 MHz, Sound 53.25 MHz) and transmissions were Vertically Polarised.

It subsequently became the main national FM transmitting station for the area, although that role is now filled by the nearby site at Black Hill.

It has a 183 metre (600 foot) tall guyed mast, built in 1952.

The station is owned by National Grid Wireless.

[edit] See also

• List of masts

[edit] References

• Pawley, Edward, BBC Engineering 1922-1972, BBC Publications 1972, ISBN 0-563-12127-0

[edit] External links

• The Transmission Gallery: Kirk o'Shotts Transmitter photographs and information
• Kirk o'Shotts mast and towers
• grid reference _region:GB_scale:25000 NS858638

Coordinates: 55°51′10″N, 3°49′34″W