Student Visit to Emley Moor Transmitting Station
Tue, 28 Feb 2017 11:15:00 GMT
On the 27th January 2017, a group of undergraduate and postgraduate Electronic Engineering students and members of staff, including Vice Chancellor Bob Cryan, Dr Pavlos Lazaridis and Dr Violeta Holmes, visited the Emley Moor tower to take a closer look at the broadcasting facilities and equipment within its grounds. The site visit was led by Arqiva Engineer and Team Leader, Lee Parkins.
Alongside London’s Crystal Palace, this impressive TV broadcasting site is one of the most powerful in the UK providing 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, in addition to learning about placement and job opportunities for electronics and communications engineers.
The Emley Moor transmitting station is the main TV transmitter site for most of Yorkshire and is home to Arqiva’s landmark concrete tower. The site 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. Completed in 1971, the 330m concrete tower is the tallest self-supporting structure in the UK, and is taller than the Eiffel tower (317m). It is the heart of the Arqiva TV broadcasting network and broadcasts both commercial and public service BBC stations.
