Droitwich Transmitting Station

The station is Droitwich transmitting equipment for long and medium wave, which was launched in 1934 near Droitwich Spa in England in operation. Operator is the telecommunications company Arqiva on behalf of the BBC and commercial radio companies TIML Radio Limited ( Absolute Radio ) and UTV Radio (Talk Sport).

As the 400 kW transmitter, which works to 1989 on 200 kHz and 198 kHz Antenna today, a fortified at two 213 m high, insulated against ground, guyed lattice steel masts T antenna is used. With the transmitters in Burghead and Westerglen it forms a single frequency network. Besides that, there in Droitwich two guyed self-radiating steel framework masts that emit about three medium-wave transmitter their programs on the frequencies 693 kHz, 1053 kHz and 1215 kHz.

The carrier wave of the transmitter is derived from a rubidium atomic clock, which is located in the station building. It is thus a calibration frequency.