Students and Staff visit Emley Moor
Thu, 04 Dec 2014 11:53:00 GMT
On the 7th November 2014 a group of undergraduate and postgraduate students and members of staff including Drs Pavlos Lazaridis, Peter Mather, and Mathew Boon visited the Emley Moor tower to take a closer look at the broadcasting facilities and equipment, led by Arqiva learning and development consultant, Peter Katic.
Alongside London’s Crystal Palace, this impressive TV broadcasting site is the most powerful in the UK, , and provides approximately 1,600,000 homes with a digital TV signal. The students heard about new generation digital TV broadcasting, smart wireless electricity and gas metering (a new Arqiva project), as well as placements and job opportunities for electronics and communications engineers.
The Emley Moor TV Broadcasting station is the main TV transmitter site for most of Yorkshire and home to Arqiva's landmark concrete tower. It is also the main national operations base for the broadcast division of Arqiva with the responsibility of remotely monitoring their entire UK TV broadcast transmitter network. It is the heart of the Arqiva TV broadcasting network, broadcasting public service BBC and commercial TV stations. Completed in 1971, the 330m concrete tower is the tallest self-supporting structure in the UK, and taller than the Eiffel tower (317m).
