The Kirk o' Shotts transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications site at The Hirst which lies just outside the village of Salsburgh which is near the town of Shotts in North Lanarkshire central Scotland. (Kirk o' Shotts means 'Church of Shotts' and takes its name from nearby Kirk o' Shotts Parish Church and Kirk o' Shotts Primary School both located as you enter the nearby village of Salsburgh.)
Kirk o' Shotts
Kirk o' Shotts transmitting station (North Lanarkshire)
The BBC405-linetelevision service in Scotland started from Kirk o' Shotts on 14 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.
Three DAB multiplexes are broadcast from the site: BBC (12B), Digital One (12A) and Switch Scotland (11D).[2]
It has a 183 metres (600 ft) tall guyed mast, built in 1952. The mast was originally 228.6 metres (750 ft) tall.
^"The Transmission Gallery: Kirk o' Shotts Transmitter photographs and information".
Further readingedit
Pawley, Edward, BBC Engineering 1922–1972, BBC Publications 1972, ISBN0-563-12127-0
External linksedit
Kirk o' Shotts mast and towers at www.lamont.me.uk
Kirk o' Shotts at The Big Tower at www.thebigtower.com
April 26, 2024
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