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Out and about over the weekend in the north of Cumbria we had chance to look across to the fells near Caldbeck and towards the tv transmitter site.<\/p>\n

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The new Caldbeck transmitter mast to the left, the old one is now half the size<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although a little cloudy, obscuring the view a little, it would appear that work is well underway to dismantle the old Caldbeck television mast.<\/p>\n

Built in 1961 it was\u00a01,030ft (\u00a0313.94\u00a0m) tall.<\/p>\n

Due to digital switchover in\u00a02009<\/a>,\u00a0a new mast was required to accommodate new transmission equipment. This\u00a0made the old structure redundant.<\/p>\n

Made up of 54 sections, each around 6m long, the new mast was built alongside the existing structure and is slightly taller\u00a0at 1,105ft (337m).<\/p>\n

This made it one of the top three tallest structures in the UK at the time.<\/p>\n

Caldbeck is Arqiva<\/a>‘s main transmitter covering Cumbria, the Lake District and parts of the England-Scotland Borders.<\/p>\n

More than 40 relay transmitters are fed from the main Caldbeck mast.<\/p>\n

More information<\/strong><\/p>\n

BBC Gallery<\/a> on the site of the Caldbeck masts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although a little cloudy, obscuring the view a little, it would appear that work is well underway to dismantle the old Caldbeck television mast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":4126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[681,1],"tags":[4508,205,218,4502,1502,4127,1210,1498,1508,4510,4507,4506,4503,4511,4505],"class_list":["post-4123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-featured","category-general","tag-arqiva","tag-bbc","tag-cumbria","tag-demolition","tag-digital-switchover","tag-england-scotland","tag-lake-district","tag-mast","tag-masts","tag-relay-transmitters","tag-scotland-borders","tag-tallest-structures","tag-television","tag-transmission-equipment","tag-tv-transmitter","entry"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_4512-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_4512-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/author\/admin-2\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4123"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4130,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123\/revisions\/4130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}