Always interesting and such great drone videography!

I applaud you Lewis for respecting the landowners wishes! 👍

Love the asides about quarries, cement works and locomotives!

Having grown up watching The Bill, Grange Hill and many other British shows, it is really nice to finally see just how beautiful Britain is. It's not all concrete and tiny council flats after all 😃 Your videography is stunning Lewis!

You know, while i did come here for the radio content, its interesting to see the different views of England. It seems so big despite its size. Thanks for the nice views and info on radio lewis!

Yes please for a dedicated tour of the Buxton transmitting station!!

I recall Bill Wright of Wrights Aerials doing some of the rigging for the original High Peak Radio when they did feed via a chain. I think he cut a yagi to the specific receive frequency and he definitely fitted the original Chapel-on-le Frith studio antenna, I recognised the brackets!

5:38 I would definitely like to see a detailed transmitter tour for the Buxton mast.

That pass is the most beautiful road in the country in my opinion.

I've been watching you since you started building your ham shed about four years ago. Growing up in Broadbottom and moving away ten years ago, it's amazing to see the RF ephemera from my youth and such familiar locations. Great stuff as ever.

The Antenna Detective solves another case.

Portuguese here. The only British soil where I stepped in was Gibraltar. 😁 Aside for your fabulous and passionate technical content, it is always nice to admire the beautifull British landscapes around Manchester. The Pass, in particular, was fantastic. In some way, it reminds me certain country landscape that I found here north and northwest of Lisbon. The light from the Atlantic Sun also gives a similar vibe. A final word about how glad is to hear your well articulated voice and British accent.

Very interesting ! I loved the parts and details of the trains as well, was really well done. As others have already commented, its a gorgeous part of the world, I recently got the train from Edinburgh back to my QTH down in South West England, it was gorgeous to see all the countryside on the way down, we really do live in a beautiful country.

I had a student at High Peak Radio, and visited the studios many times.

I love trains and especially little shunters so this was nice to see 😍

Information packed, lot of work gone into this video!

Also liked seeing the trains by the quarry. I listen to LBC talk from London, a lot I think on 97.3, and various music stations from the UK, like I heard in London on our two week trip to London, where I was born in 1944, now being 80. Also the sights around London, Stonehenge, Oxford, Cotswolds, and other spots. Cheers. 😅

I am always amazed at how much you know about the systems in the UK. 👍

I was expecting them to at least maintain the radio links as a backup in the event of a fibre break. Maybe someday they will.

Even though I live several thousands of miles away, I still enjoyed the video. Your drone footage is top tier, too.

Actually, I think both Heart and Greatest Hits Radio between them are “sucking the life out of independent local radio” - as soon as I saw adverts on posters telling me that Heart was going to be broadcast on 102.6 FM, I said “It can’t do that - it’ll interfere with Orchard FM!” - but, no - it’s replaced Orchard! Or Pilchard, as the local yokels called it! Also, two radio stations set up in both Minehead and Bridgwater, both initially calling themselves The Breeze, are now Greatest Hits Radio! Even TFM, which used to be Radio Tees, whilst identifying itself as TFM, is really Metro Radio - if you play both at the same time, you get the same programming, with clever masking to hide the fact that it’s really pretty much a network, but with limited local content (ads, area-specific travel bulletins and news) - in fact, it’s a north east coast network service, between Humberside and Scotland!

Yes, a tour of that transmitter site would be great.

Glad I'm not the only one who thinks GHR is doing a stunning job of helping wipe out Independent Local Radio. It's a deeply-depressing spectacle to behold. I've seen much-loved stations - a number of which I have been fortunate to work with over the years and which, despite the rise of the Internet and streaming still maintained a large and loyal audience - silenced, to be replaced by a corporate national feed whose sole contribution to local content is a traffic and travel opt-out every so often. Fortunately a number of outfits have regrouped and gone down the DAB/online route but they're in the minority, sadly. Great content as always - many thanks. 👍

Pretty countryside !

Always enjoy the details and the backgrounds. Ty. San antonio tx here.

That's some serious inspiration for all the model train enthusiasts. Great shots!

The tour of buxton transmitter would ne very cool!

Well said about Greatest Hits Radio! 👏

gorgeous photography, sir.

you're right, I absolutely love the idyllic countryside tour

Yes please to the tour of the Buxton transmitter! Great video Lewis. Fascinating to hear about the goings on with local radio here in my home town of Buxton. Keep up the good work!

Ringway Manchester... Another informative video.... Thank You and I Love Yagi's and their Propagation capabilities....

If there is ever a contest for best videoproduction on KZfaq you would probably win Lewis... your droneshots are are beautiful, still are stunning, the country so nice! Best radioshow out there!

I find lewis good at the scenic views covered together with related history and his determination to reveal all relevent extentsive research he carries out.

Seems to me that Greatest Hits Radio is either broadcasting in DAB or a low power FM radio broadcast. Similar to what we have in the states. We have licenses free medium wave radio. Each low power AM medium wave transmitter works on a frequency around 1620 KHZ. The transmitters that make up the low power AM broadcast network for area coverage are all on the same frequency. Each transmitter is feed with one fiber site with the other's feed with a WiFi link. Using a encoder and decoder box. Such as the low cost Barix system with a static IP address. Each Transmitter is syncid up pretty much the same way a cellular tower network is. To provide coverage over a large area with very low power around a half a watt. The two most common FCC approved transmitters for this application are the Hamilton Rangemaster, and the Chez Radio Procaster.

Beautiful landscape shots! 😃👍 I think you'd have had a lot of fun from the 1960's to the 1980's in East-Germany! Lots of self-made antennas, in the northeast even on very high, also self-made poles, just for receiving West-German TV. 😉

Super interesting! Thanks! I have always wondered about high peak radio

radio and train bearding in one video 😂

Love the video man! You always make things really interesting

That intro with the drone shots was insane, 10/10

Two videos in one day. Cool. That watch tower looks like it could go over. But interesting building. I can only guess that coastguard would monitor this station also in the instance of emergency. As for this video, I've learned something new about independent radio. Thanks 👍

Who did the music in this one? Reminds me of the old "How it's made" tracks. Love it, what a great video all around.

Your drone does a wonderful job of holding steady when photographing things from above.

That Yagi looks remarkably low and vulnerable for an urban location. I agree with your comment on them sucking the life out of local radio stations around the country. I'm of the opinion that if a company can't run a local service, the licence should be automatically revoked and opened up to organisations who can. A similar company has totally sucked the life out of local newspapers. Replacing the web sites with syndicated items and a huge amount of adverts.

Your videos are way more interesting than some other KZfaqrs.

Thanks RM. Another Super Video****

Wondered if you heard of any radio outages due to the Solar storm? If so you should make a vid. I'm interested in hearing if there was any widespread effects.

Nice video again. In France there are similar Yagi antennas but lower frequency and only 2 or 3 element aiming along train tracks, and antennas looking like a periodic log, also vertically polarized, along toll highways, The latter are diffusing a radio program for drivers with a diploma on 107.7. The program is likely repeating each hour and contains information about good driving practice, at least this was what it was when i last heard it 10 years ago and found it awful. The positive thing about it is that it is directive to the extent that as soon as you leave the toll highway the signal vanishes.

Another Wonderful production.

Ofcom's technical parameters document informs that Chapel-en-le-Frith's in-use pattern is omnidirectional. That suggests (to me, at any rate) that the end-fed vertical is the transmit antenna. The antenna height is also given as 7m -- the yagi looks (to me, at any rate) to have a mean height of approx 5.5m or thereabouts (assuming the doors are 2m).

Loved this video and would love to see the transmitter tour mentioned. I'd love to see a video like this for my old local station tfm, but I can't imagine there would be much interest in it sadly. Benjamin

at Chinley near Buxworth there is a relay on a hillside near stubbing lane. in recant times they added things on to it and now when there is a light wind the things they added on the mast make a whistling sound which is fairly loud. sometime you hear the sound of a generator kicking in there. the stone building next to the mast has been converted to a holiday home. i suppose that stone building used house equipment for the relay mast but now it just houses people on away days.

Love RADIO and RADIO WAVES like I said back in the day had a RADIO STATION IN LUTON, LOVE that you put in the spooky bit in because it's real.and you can hear the other side on RADIO. ANYWAY thanks again for the great show lots of interesting stories and MUSIC.ALAN FROM LUTON 💯🍻👍

Beautiful shots and B roll Lewis! The trains are a nice change of pace. Would be interested in some more train related radio investigation since it’s so different depending where you are. Cheers.

Another cool video with an interesting find . 👍

So glad you started using Thank You R G E in your vids. I love jazzy tunes and actually was inspired to sample it for one of my music projects ^_^ You've been making me want to make a signalwave EP at some point. Keep up the great work!

ooh... new music? or have I just not been by for a while? Great explanation of the setup. You have a great network of sources to find all these things..

Cracking video Lewis. More please!!!

In the photo of the farmers' place, in the lower part of the frame there looks to be a microwave drum antenna on a pole, could that be used to feed the transmission site or is it unrelated? And yes, a tour of the very busy tower site gets my vote for a future video.👍

Thanks!

@RingwayManchester >>> Another great video...👍

Another great video, of special interest. This is the message I got from one of the creators of that TX chain... The answer re the original feed to Glossop is genuinely quirky. That RX antenna didn't pull in an adequate signal from Buxworth, so we received instead at a hilltop fam building to the south, near Chunal, and bounced it onwards...

Your not wrong about GhR sucking the life out of local radio. A good tour & look at the Buxton transmitter site would be good to see.

It seems like a norm here in our place that the FM TX antenna are located at the residential area. Aside from that, most of them are 1000W with their 4-bay circular polarized antenna.

Pity our building demand requires robbing out such a natural landscape as high peak,

Here in Norway every comersiel radiostation use DAB. That's terrible, I should wish the old FM-net welcome again. The best from LB1NH 🙂

Great video, lovely views

Radio aside, it’s a beautiful part of the world. Spent a week in Edale a few years back, and although I came down with an awful cold a day before I was due to leave (one of those ones that hurts every bone in your body), I had had a great time. Dragged my poor wife up Kinder Scout one of the days. She was less than enthusiastic. Lol

You are so thorough Lewis. Great shots also. 👍

digging the tunes on this one

There's also omnidirectional antenna above the yagi fm antenna (the antenna until 311 time mark).

There is some great information in High Peak Radios book, broadcast brothers on the radio. Their second book should be out soon, which will detail more about the launch and running of the station. Did you reach out to the Jenner brothers? Great video 👍

Brilliant

At least I'm not the only one with the same opinion of Greatest (S)hits Radio. They destroyed our local FM station, Yorkshire Coast Radio. Luckily, the old YCR team rose from ashes and formed "This is the Coast" unfortunately tho its only on DAB+. The limited hours of local content on GHR is complete garbage and sometimes isn't even "local" they make a complete mockery of the regulator who appears not to care either.

Intro has some nice views of trains & rail infrastructure.

Nice scenery. 😊

Outstanding production quality!

when i pressed the button to watch this video it came up this video has been made privet so i looked and saw it was still up so did it again and bingo it worked. someone prob don't want this out.

Another great video Lewis! When my father was alive, he never missed the chance to identify an antenna - partly because he had been in the Signals Regiment, partly because he was a keen Radio Ham and partly (I suspect) of his job with a certain government organisation. So car journeys in unfamiliar towns were commented with "Look! 2m band!" Or "Big Yagi with a rotator!" and so-on. And I do the observation, but don't usually say anything. Change of topic - are you a user of Radio Mobile or similar tools? Do you think the viewer community would be interested to know how you know if an antenna is in line of sight? How links are planned, avoiding obstacles in the Fresnel zone, etc? This was one aspect of my very interesting job in support of the defence industry. I thought it might interest quite a few viewers. All the best, Rob in Switzerland PS. Excellent production quality as usual! Wish I could give it a five!

love seeing England in the sun

very interesting Lewis. I'm not a broadcast engineer but I have spent a lot of time working on PMR on hill top radio sites and there was one (can't remember which, it was a long time ago) where there was an FM broadcast Tx which was fed from a BT landline but with an off-air receiver as a backup for when (not if!) the landline failed. I would imagine keeping the local Tx and its noise sidebands out of the link Rx would be a major headache especially with the antennas on the same pole. Best wishes Alan G0NFY

always of interest thanks...can you do a video on the process for tracking down these masts it would be great for us novices

Is it just me or is there more sunshine in England than there was back in 1981...?

My Gran used to live in Chapel-en-le-Frith. It's a bit weird seeing it after all this time.

I’m not a ham radio enthusiast and everything I know about the topic I learned here over the past few weeks. But I have a question. It’s something I’ve occasionally puzzled over for almost 50 years. I grew up in the 60s and, back then if you purchased a radio, provided it wasn’t a tiny pocket _tranny_ (transistor radio), you would get LW, MW and SW receivers. Being a curious type, I used to wind the tuner all the way to the end of the dial where, _sometimes,_ you would catch faint sounds and voices saying strange things in strange accents. But there was one signal which, at that time, puzzled me more than all the rest. I don’t recall now whether it was LW or SW but I’m certain it wasn’t MW. It was always there and whenever I tuned in, all I ever heard was: a repeating musical phrase comprising 6-notes played on what sounded like a jazz trumpet with a mute being used to create a wah-wah effect. As best as I’m able, it went something like… *wah, wah, wah, wah, wahhhh, wahhhh.* _Ad Infinitum._ It’s a long shot but… any clue about what I was hearing there?

Class 20's are my favourite loco. Not many of 'em left now... 😔

Trains as well ? Is there no end to your talents Lewis ?

hm no drain loops on the coax.. those are bad radio man bad. great video lewis

Great video as per Lewis GHR more homogenised crap that has no identity soul or bothered about local issues. THEY SHOULD NEVER BEEN ALOWED TO PLUNDER EVERY INDEPENDENT LOCAL RADIO STATION ! They must have a production line for cloned presenters as every single one sounds the same the only difference is male or female

I am still perplexed as to why I love these videos so much but I certainly do. The photography and local insights are something to do with it I am sure. Perhaps it’s just the RF technology that is normally hidden in plain sight. ❤

No sheep till Buxton

I am really surprised that Greatest Hits is not using simulcast technology for all of their transmitters so they would only need one transmit frequency. Wow beautiful land! Just curious what drone are you using to get those aerial shots?

Most interesting content as per. 👏🏻 But images of the various cables had me scratching my screen protector for hairline cracks. Doh! 🙈

Your greatest hits radio sounds like our iHeart Radio here in the states, the cities and frequencies change but the sound amd format is the same... 3-5 songs and 20 min of commercials

If you see one of these, its probably a ham radio repeater (in this case it is not)

No mistaking Winnats.......

excellent.

The Ariel in the title overhangs the public area beneath it. I didn't think that THAT was legal in the uk. If that comes loose it will impale anybody using the pavement below.

Great video man . And I got some train action lol

So what are the yagis for again? A backup? The omnidirectional antenna on the top is what you’d tune into?