>> Arqiva are in the process of replacing the 314 metre fire-damaged transmitter with an 80
>> metre temporary thing. Anyone who's still awake may like to comment on the likelihood of
>> this working at all or would a few bent coat-hangers be a better solution?
When was the last time a main transmitter failed that comprehensively?
I don't think it's happened since ice and wind dragged down the Emley Moor mast in 1969.
A temporary mast went up in pretty short order but Health and Safety wasn't the thing then it is now. A writer in Radio User a couple of months ago referred to the "Board of Trade Hoops" that allowed one to lean back and rest while climbing an open ladder up a mast; useless if you lost your footing.
It worked in some places - large parts of the Aire Valley had a line of sight to the mast. We could see it from the upper floor of primary school on rising land on the opposite side of the valley. Others had poor quality snow until the still extant concrete mast was finished in 1971.
UHF is basically line of sight so a lower mast will be visible from a reduced area, Bilsdale's fringes will not get a useable signal. Being digital it'll be either on or off.
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