Sutton Common BT Tower

Sutton Common BT Tower is a radio tower built of reinforced concrete at Macclesfield, Cheshire, England. It is one of the few communication towers in the United Kingdom built of reinforced concrete. It is part of the 1960s 'backbone' network, relaying signals to Heaton Park in the north and Pye Green to the south.

Sutton Common is notable because of it was originally conceived as part of the 1950s 'Backbone' chain designed to provide the UK and NATO with survivable communications during nuclear war.[1]

Building a wind farm near the transmitter was considered, but wasn't able to happen due to interference that may have been caused by the wind turbines to the radio waves.

Contents

Channels available from this site

Analogue radio

Frequency kW [2] Service
96.4 MHz 0.24 Signal 1
106.9 MHz 0.15 Silk FM

Digital radio

Frequency Block kW Operator
227.360 MHz 12C 0.2 MXR North West
229.072 MHz 12D 0.5 Stoke & Stafford

References

  1. ^ Backbone radio link and radio standby to line links for safeguarding vital communications. GPO paper for the Official Committee on Civil Defence, July 1956. The National Archives (UK) CAB 134/1207
  2. ^ Radio Listeners Guide 2010

See also

External links