Talk:Rugby Radio Station

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I've removed this from the article. It's not really readable, so if someone could improve it that could be great (I'm not really sure what the original author is trying to say) --Laser2k 22:02, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

A curiosity in the history of the transmitter is that the records tubular bells of Mike Oldfield show the callsign of GBR on 16 kHz. The callsign came onto the record, because it was produced in Middle England. It is not audible and only detectable by methods of sound frequency spectral analysis.


 * This is what that refers to:
 * Historic Recording of Rugby GBR
 * VLF Transmissions on Music CDs
 * A start at rewriting it:
 * A curiosity in the history of the transmitter is that Tubular Bells and other musical recordings include the GBR callsign on 16 kHz. The callsign appears on the record, because it was within sufficient range during recording for guitar pickups to receive it. It is not audible and only detectable by methods of sound frequency spectral analysis.
 * Jamplevia (talk) 02:57, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

LORAN-C use
The transmitter is used also for LORAN-C. Who knows more?

1st April 2007?
Near the top of this article, it quotes 1st April 2007? Its only January at the moment!
 * Sure, but it clearly refers to a future event. The contract *will* pass to VT from BT on this date. Chillysnow 18:57, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

BT contract expiration
"the Royal Navy decided not to renew its contract with BT in favour of a new contract with VT Communications": Was it that the RN chose VT over BT or that BT decided to abandon traditional radio communication activities? One or more citations are certainly required. Sv1xv (talk) 06:36, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

RIN reference web link no longer valid
The link to the "Royal Institute of Navigation press release dated May 18, 2005" web page (Referenc no 1) is no longer working. If someone knows the new location, please update it. The site of the Royal Institute of Navigation is active but their search engine gives no relevant results. Sv1xv (talk) 10:37, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Remaining Masts at Rugby
Many of these masts still exist (or at least a large number of similar masts exist at the same location), but this page seems to imply that they have been destroyed.

Maybe this could be clarified, as I am curious about the dozens and dozens of masts still situated [Jun 08] just west of the M1, 1 mile north of junction 18.

Krisfields (talk) 22:28, 14 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I passed them a week or so ago, most look like HF, the tallest are about right for LF, rather than VLF.
 * ALR (talk) 20:43, 15 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I saw the remaining masts a few weeks ago. As mentioned, the article (and others I've read) suggest everything was taken down. However, some places such as Subterranea Britannica suggest there was some secret stuff going on to do with the cold war, and submarines (the latter having since passed to VT Communications). I wouldn't mind betting there's some classified stuff still in there, doing something that would have you reaching for the tinfoil hats! If it really was redundant, I think BT would have pulled it all down by down. It'd be far too much of a liability keep up, so it must be doing something. KingDaveRa (talk) 12:12, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Name
I propose to move this article to 'Rugby radio station', unless there are objections here, because that is what the place was called according to the cited sources.--Harumphy (talk) 07:46, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

HF point to point
Hi. This article does not seem to mention the P.O. HF point-to-point service run from this site for many many years. This http://www.alancordwell.co.uk/Legacy/hfradio/rugby.html is one of many citations but the military VLF service and MSF, although important, were only part of what was going on. Most of the ironmongery that could be seen from the M1 until recently was the remains of the rhombic antennae and NVIS antennae used for this HF service which was overtaken by the advent of satellites and cable. I remember being shown around the main transmitter building some years ago with the switching for the transmission line feeds over the fields (and above the sheep) to the remote rhombics. I think it is important not to forget this part of the service.Longfinal (talk) 17:59, 30 November 2016 (UTC)