New Temporary Transmitter Construction At Emley Moor!

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[@mervynsands3501]

The big boys of broadcasting, TV masts of immense proportions, Emley moor mast can be received as far away as Germany under lift conditions, and vice versa. And yes Holme moss used to carry TV back in the 405 lines UK tv era! Thanks for sharing this Lewis.🙂👍

[@spig021]

Let’s hope that the Temporary Mast doesn’t collapse like the similar metal structure did in 1969!!

[@RingwayManchester]

Yeah! Weather's rough up there!

[@ChrisMarsh321]

Great video Lewis. I can see Emley moor tower from my qth in South Yorkshire, spotted the lattice tower yesterday. Thanks for posting.

[@RingwayManchester]

Cheers mate :)

[@Steve_Wardley_G6JEF]

Good to see Emley Moor again, I used to live not too far away in Wakefield and remember being taken up there as a youngster on day drives. It has a bit of a chequered history does that site, it had a few towers before the concrete one but they could never keep them in the air, the Northern climate got to them and felled them into a pile of scrap on more than one occasion.

[@RingwayManchester]

Cheers Steve interesting stuff!

[@rambo1152]

Holme Moss was built to carry the BBC TV 405 line service, and it did so from 1951 to 1985 FM broadcasting was added in 1956. 73 de G3ZVT

[@RingwayManchester]

Cheers and best 73 :)

[@robhunter4424]

Lovely, watching that paraglider with the mellow music made my heart rate drop. I'm well chilled now. I'm amazed the tower foundations are only 6 meters deep though! Thanks for taking the time and effort to make this :-)

[@RingwayManchester]

Haha cheers rob :)

[@jeffallinson8089]

It still is the tallest freestanding structure in the UK, the taller ones are guyed masts lol

[@hailacab]

A friend of mine in Africa told me the dome array with the 5/6 antennas are government rf jamming stations for use in national emergency protocalls

[@RingwayManchester]

Interesting stuff!

[@peteshulver9221]

Looks like a great viewpoint from there and shame about missing the Helicopters, thanks for the update and keep the videos coming.

[@RingwayManchester]

Yeah I wish I'd caught them Pete! Cheers!

[@hyper2high]

Looks like martin was enjoying the paraglider👍

[@ralphthebrick]

Great Video, Nearly got a chance to go up the mast for RF training years ago when I worked for a company called Ionica. Also worked with a Rigger who updated the red lighting on the outside....Luck man to have that one under his belt. Very interesting..Thank you.

[@RingwayManchester]

Ahh yes Ionica! Would love to chat to you more about that? Got a video planned on Ionica much further down the line!

[@ralphthebrick]

No Bother, Its a few years ago when they went bust, but still remember the basics of the system. Used to be a dream job for me I was into radio in a big way back in those days. I am in Wakefield so just over the Pennines from you. Cheers.....Ralph

[@VVc0w]

I'm in Wakefield so this isn't too far from me. There's a good video on here of it being built

[@2e0rdu1]

Lovely shot of the transmitter, thanks for sharing manchester dreamteam 🐝🐝

[@RingwayManchester]

Cheers John

[@NigelDixon1952]

I remember the 1969 mast collapse well. Thankfully nobody was injured, and the whole of the coverage area had people frantically trying to tune in to ITV Tyne Tees, our in some cases, Granada from the over side of the Pennines! BBC 1 was still available from Holme Moss, of course, but only in the B & W 405 line standard. The richer people of Yorkshire who were splashing out 30 Shillings (£1.50) a week for their colour sets rented from Red Arrow, were really peeved not to be able to watch BBC 2 in glorious colour! It didn't take long for the IBA to find and erect a temporary 'mast' that looked like it was made out of scaffolding, but at around 50 feet high, yes that's 50 feet!, It didn't work too. That was soon replaced by a lattice mast of 600 feet, which served the region well while the concrete mast was built. I lived about 20 miles away from Emley Moore, and could clearly see the the new mast growing higher by the day.

[@AnthonyIlstonJones]

I thought several people died when the steel guy ropes froze on Emley Moor, or was that a previous occasion? I know it was in the sixties at some point, though I was rather young at the time & didn't realize the gravity of the situation. (I'm sorry, I'll get my coat.....)

[@richiehoyt8487]

Thanks, interesting bit of history. I had actually wondered (if only in passing) how people 'coped' in the interim.

[@NigelDixon1952]

People were running around like headless chickens! First they'd look up to their roof....antenna still there. Ask next door 'erm..is your telly still on?' Then panic, the world's ending ending! But no, nobody died when Emley Moore fell down. If you go to the public viewing area, then look over the road, about 100 metres away there's a small chapel. A guy wire fell right through the middle of the roof. It's still possible to see the newer roof tiles with the original ones.

[@karenripley3678]

IT was ITA (Independent Television Authority) back in 1969. When ITA took on independent radio in 1972, it became IBA (Independent Broadcasting Authority)

[@scannerman72]

Great video Lewis. The lasts Mast like that on that site collapsed in 1969.

[@spig021]

Andy2E0KKF it was 1969

[@RingwayManchester]

Cheers Andy!

[@Nathan.Manchester]

Interesting Video great scenery- a well deserved liked video from me 👍👍

[@RingwayManchester]

CHeers mate

[@johnleigh349]

I read with interest about airials around Manchester/Cheshire area ? Many years ago I was based at an raf station near Nantwich it was then a radar aircraft recovery base for aircraft entering uk airspace it is now a musium ,I was with a technician directing air traffic from a concrete building 8x10 feet square 😊 in the middle of a field 1964/65

[@RingwayManchester]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qYmrnXSNr754pLM this?

[@bermondsey548428]

Huddersfield the home of great structures Castle Hill Holme moss Emley moor

[@samglaim4274]

Great video. I'm just wondering if my neighbours would mind me putting up one of those towers in the back garden? (not the really big one of course... the small one! :-) )

[@RingwayManchester]

Give it a try! haha cheers mate

[@RWL2012]

Any way you could arrange to do videos inside transmitter site buildings? I've seen a good few American ones but they seem to be all but not a thing in the UK.

[@malcolmpedley3191]

The last one like this fell down, not wind but Ice which made it top heavy. The replacement was built in concrete and from the top it will be magnificent view but only in Yorkshire would they build this but forgot a restaurant which every other tower in the world has. You could charge what you wanted for a meal with such a view especially on the low cloud days when the top is looking down at them.

[@sufyanpatel9706]

Really like the video and music used in the video. So soothing and like seeing the paragliders too. Have you been there recently? I go there with my son quite a few times cause he likes the Emley moor tower lol

[@RingwayManchester]

Yes mate I went last week actually!

[@sufyanpatel9706]

@@RingwayManchester nice one. You know if there are gonna be helicopters to do work again and also when do they do the charity thing do you can go inside the Emley moor tower?

[@RingwayManchester]

I’m not sure mate to be honest

[@TonyLing]

Your camera work is brilliant man

[@RingwayManchester]

Cheers Tony

[@sufyanpatel9706]

Hi. Do you know where they are paragliding? Which part from the Emley moor tower is it?

[@tech-rich]

Useless fact about Holme Moss. Its host to the highest mounted airwave transmitter in the UK at 142m on the mast, totalling 667m above sea level!

[@RingwayManchester]

Not useless at all! I wish I'd known that before, I would've included it in the video

[@Taffy866]

great scenery and a great vid

[@RingwayManchester]

Cheers mate

[@scan4letterhere234]

hello i love what you doing ringway manchester, you remind me of myself. what is the name of the tune you had on the intro and middle sections of the video? really nice. arquiva and trip hop... I can't think of anything better!

[@stephengunrunnerhanson3550]

Great video great tunes so if the stand by transmitter is lower will it be a reduced signals

[@niamhmeichan1182]

they've started work on the concreate mast btw huge fan i live 2 minutes awayy from mast

[@stephengunrunnerhanson3550]

Great video and Great mast's and cool music all the best 73s M6SBN

[@caveman5579]

good video very interesting would of been good to see them putting it together 73s

[@RingwayManchester]

Cheers mate yeah it would!

[@stephengunrunnerhanson3550]

great video and great tunes must go up to holm moss for dx work

[@davidwilliamson2115]

good show did ypu do any transmitting while pragliding?

[@RingwayManchester]

I didn't paraglide David

[@llamedosr7843]

Would have been nice to see the little workmen. Was Snow White the foreman?

[@keithrobson8649]

Temporary tower just been taken down

[@MartinZero]

Brilliant, if you'll pardon the pun. M****

[@lllucky13]

hope it dosnt fall down again😂

[@Lyndalewinder]

Well the title of the video was a bit misleading since there was nothing on the construction but nevertheless a good watch

[@CB-RADIO-UK]

A lot of guy wires for sure. Good video bud.

[@RingwayManchester]

Cheers mate

[@AnthonyIlstonJones]

They'd want a lot of guy lines to be fair, at the very least to ease local concerns about the safety of such insallations considering what happened in the sixties to a similarly constructed mast.

[@m3hpr118]

ive been reading the Emg services are loosing tetra in 2020 and are going to use Samsung smartphones PTT system on EE but it has to have 97% coverage so more masts are being erected to cover this ... I know down in London EE data is in and out where iam so dont hold our much luck for there system .. . cheers 73s

[@RingwayManchester]

Watch this space on that one ;)

[@karengill8234]

Great video, used to go to the Ham swop meets close to there. Kaz. G4OWW

[@jamie3499]

It’s on the borders of Derbyshire and Yorkshire!

[@bermondsey548428]

Jamie it's nowhere near Derbyshire it's in Huddersfield are you smoking funny cigarettes

[@sharonjuniorchess]

Even little workmen need little breaks. Interesting thought that someone who is vertically challenged would choose a career involving the erection of very tall structures? But we all need compensation.

[@RingwayManchester]

Haha!

[@headfuckd]

if the main tower is out of use is it accessible? I really wanna have a look from top

[@RingwayManchester]

They're both inaccessible

[@headfuckd]

shame