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AERIAL SWITCHES (THE ORGAN LOFT)
The output from the transmitters went via co-axial copper tubes to one of the two aerial Switch Rooms. These interior of these rooms looked like large church organs. The pipes came in horizontally from the transmitters to the switching decks...
RHOMBIC AERIALS
By the mid-1950s the latest design of aerial from PO was becoming standard. This design was known as Rhombic (diamond shaped). Rhombic aerials used four masts for support, each mast being around 150ft high. The masts were made of twelve, triangular-shaped, galvanised steel sections bolted together...
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OPENING BY DR CHARLES HILL
The new Rugby Station known as the Extension to Rugby Radio Station (also the ‘B’ Building) went into service in October 1954. The official Grand Opening took place on 28th July 1955...
MARCONI TRANSMITTERS
In the early 1950s, a prototype Marconi HS 51 transmitter was installed in the ‘A’ Building Machine Room to allow the design to be finalised before another 28 transmitters were installed in the ‘B’ Building...
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