Stocksbridge/Hunshelf Bank TV Transmitter

A.T.V. (Aerials and Television)

419 Langsett Rd
Hillsborough
Sheffield
S6 2LL

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Stocksbridge / Hunshelf Bank OS Grid Ref SK 275 991

Note, as work takes place on various digital transmitters (to prepare for the DSO) you may
experience problems, e.g. with certain MUXES disappearing. First try rescanning your
TV / set top box (do it manually if possible), but if this fails to work check on transmitter work
or call the reception advice phone numbers. Also see basic digital fault finding.

Stocksbridge television transmitter was constructed in 1980 and it can be seen quite clearly up on Hunshelf Bank, the TV mast is the slim tapered structure at the front. It is a relay (or repeater) off Emley Moor and if one looks closely at it one can see the receiving aerial pointing back at it`s Main Transmitter. At the top is the array of Log Periodics which are used to rebroadcast the signal into the valley below.
As with most repeaters it is Vertically polarised and it puts out 12W in the C/D group.
It only broadcasts the basic 4 programme channels, i.e. No C5 or Digital though this is
due to change in September 2011 when the DSO occurs. Note that only the three basic PSB MUXES will be transmitted from Stocksbridge, not all six of them. Post DSO all the digital MUXES will be within Stocksbridge`s original C/D group. For this reason we would tend to put customers onto Emley (or even Belmont or Bilsdale and they`re both about 65 miles away ! ) if at all possible. Generally speaking the further up the hillside you live, the better your chances of getting a decent television signal off Emley, though we
have done a number of jobs on Manchester Rd which have worked OK. If one looks at "Transmitter Channel Allocations" you can see that Stocksbridge repeater uses the same frequencies for the 4 basic programme channels as Waltham. You would be very unlucky to suffer any co-channel interference though due to the topography of the area. Apart from anything else there are no houses on Stocksbridge pointing their aerials SE, which is the direction of Waltham.

Stocksbridge TV transmitter is the one on the right !

Picture Justin Smith (ATV).

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