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THE REFURBISHMENT OF LIMOGES Part 1
Photographs By Martin Watkins |
OUT WITH THE THE OLD AND IN WITH THE NEW Martin visited the main TDF 'Les
Cars' site at Limoges in 2003 during the rebuilding of the
station. A new mast was built and when completed the old one was
dismantled. Martin obtained some excellent shots around the site
of the new mast rising alongside the old and of the various
decommissioned aerial systems.
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 The Old Mast In 1986 |
 The top of the old mast showing the UHF and Band III sections when they were still relatively new |
 The new mast has now been constructed, and stands to the right of the old one in this shot The 4 vertical dipoles in the above picture, which can be just made out on the old mast, situated below the Band II arrays, were used for the Eurosignal network; this is a paging system which can be heard by tuning an FM radio to about 87.4 MHz anywhere near France. |
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 January 2003 - The above two photographs show all the aerials are now in situ on the new mast |
 June 2003, the new mast is now in service
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 The old mast is starting to be dismantled |
 Not much left of the old gal now! |
 The old mast is almost gone |
THE BAND II (VHF/FM) RADIO AERIAL SYSTEM
Here are the photographs of the aerial systems that had been removed from the old mast. Below are some of the Band II aerials. The Band III and UHF aerials can be found on the next pages.  |
 "How Are The Mighty Fallen" – although most of the aerials have been damaged, these photos show a pair of feeders still intact, running from their mast termination points up to the dipoles |
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 The separate regional Band II
aerials; of moderner design, they seem to be also somewhat less robust
than those from the original main arrays |
 This picture gives a whole new meaning to the concept of
antennae stacking! The Germans (from the company Thales) were very tidy |
 One of the connector termination points where feeder cable is converted to feeder rods running to the dipoles |
PART 2 (Band III Aerials) >> PART 3 (UHF Aerials) >> |
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