Spotted on www.anoraknation.com:
My colleague Andy Green and I paid a spontaneous visit to the world-famous Athlone transmitting site in Ireland midlands the other day. We just happened to be passing, called them up and invited ourselves in. The site currently carries RTE 2FM on 612kHz at 100kW. Until 1979 it carried Radio Eireann, and had done so since the site was commissioned in 1933. We took some pictures in the building, as the original 100kW Marconi transmitter is still there, as is the second rig used there, a Brown-Boveri 100kW unit.
Andy Linton
The photos are on this page.
on Nov 30th, 2003 at 14:49
this is fascinating stuff. I’m just working on a video of the SLBC “Radio Ceylon” site (visited a few weeks ago) and the Marconi 100 is almost identical. Controls look like what we imagine must be at a nuclear power station. It probably costs too much to dispose of all this stuff than just to let it sit there in Althlone (there’s mercury and all kinds of nice PCBS in those transformers and rectifiers!!)