Traditional Weekend "where's this?" Quiz

[whole diary]

[Mark A]

Lovely. Wonder how well the long wave signal gets into a Voyager?

Mark

[GBM]

That Droitwich long-wave transmitter brings back a memory from the 1970s.
  We assumed that the signal from that big powerful long-wave transmitter had been so strong that it had forced its way into the innards of the radio and had swamped the intermediate frequency used in the radio that the radio usually got from the medium-wave signal. 

Always going to happen with the 'old' car radio's.

Strong breakthrough from local transmitter would always triumph over whatever you were listening to.
Going past Avonmouth maritime transmitters you would always pick up morse code.

[Western Pathfinder]

Not forgetting Port Z Radio which was in fact in Highbridge.-..-.-..-
And ceased transmission back in 2000.

[GBM]

Not forgetting Port Z Radio which was in fact in Highbridge.-..-.-..-
And ceased transmission back in 2000.

Good local knowledge there WP.
I trained at Port Z (Highbridge) and stayed for 10 months until moving on to the Coast Radio Stations (Maritime that is - not the other sort of local radio station!)

[chuffed]

As a long time resident of Port Z ...the town of 30,000 people without a post office or a railway...it reminds me of a story about horse shoe nails which were once  solely  (geddit?) manufactured in the town. A faulty consignment needed to be returned....and then went astray (as horses do!)...and they were eventually found in Egypt !!!

[GBM]

That Droitwich long-wave transmitter brings back a memory from the 1970s.

We were travelling on the M5 past Droitwich in the days when car radios had two bands - long-wave and medium-wave.  The radio was tuned to medium-wave but as we went past Droitwich the sound from the radio changed to the long-wave programme.  Eh?, we thought - what's going on here?  After we had got past Droitwich the sound returned to the medium-wave programme.  We assumed that the signal from that big powerful long-wave transmitter had been so strong that it had forced its way into the innards of the radio and had swamped the intermediate frequency used in the radio that the radio usually got from the medium-wave signal. 

Also happened when driving on the A30 going past the Admiralty remote station by Indian Queens (Cornwall).  Breakthrough on the old car radio's happened from those transmissions.
Other remoted stations were available throughout the UK^▸ (United Kingdom)!

[johnneyw]

Not forgetting Port Z Radio which was in fact in Highbridge.-..-.-..-
And ceased transmission back in 2000.

That brought back a vague memory.  I seem to recall going to some social function linked to my then girlfriend's family there in the late 80s/early 90s.  Did the facility have a social club or similar, can anyone tell me?

[CyclingSid]

When I was young for a time I lived in a cottage with a small valley and a stream running through the garden. The telephone looped from the telegraph post at the roadside to the house. You picked up the telephone handset and got crystal clear AFN Frankfurt. Must have been what started my interest in jazz.

[Witham Bobby]

As a long time resident of Port Z ...the town of 30,000 people without a post office or a railway...it reminds me of a story about horse shoe nails which were once  solely  (geddit?) manufactured in the town. A faulty consignment needed to be returned....and then went astray (as horses do!)...and they were eventually found in Egypt !!!

If you want to fall down a web rabbithole and vanish for an hour or so:

https://portisheadradio.co.uk/home

[Chris from Nailsea]

I did, and have only just returned to the surface. 

Now, to get my own back (as in Backwell ), you could view this.  I have absolutely no commercial connection with the estate agency involved in the clip.  I will, however, confess to having sort of 'burgled' that derelict site, by climbing through a gap in the fencing, many years ago, just to explore it. It's a former BT (British Telecommunications) radio research laboratory, on the hillside above Backwell, North Somerset.

It was absolutely fascinating. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zzaYX5qV0s&ab_channel=HollisMorganEstateAgents%26Auctioneers 

[GBM]

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That brought back a vague memory.  I seem to recall going to some social function linked to my then girlfriend's family there in the late 80s/early 90s.  Did the facility have a social club or similar, can anyone tell me?

Yes, the Burnham on Sea did have very active social club