by G4RMT » Wed Mar 29, 2017 10:31 am
I'm wondering if all the coastal radio sites on the closed control centres, like Walton on the Name and Gt Yarmouth, in my area, plus the small one that closed some years ago at Lowestoft, are actually accessible by any of the large area control centres? Humber Radio, for example does cover all the coast down to North Foreland in Kent, but the South Coast centres go around to the Thames - so there is overlap. All the Coastal transmitters seem to use common channels in sequence, so 23 comes up over and over again - but far enough apart so as not to interfere. With IP connections so simple nowadays it makes sense that the equipment at Walton could be the furthest South station for Humber, but equally possible to be in Thames's control and also the Fareham centre near Portsmouth? Perhaps they now do not need to be permanently and exclusively allocated to any one control location?