Washford transmitting station
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Washford transmitting station is a medium wave broadcasting
Broadcasting
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via any audio visual medium. Receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively large subset of thereof...

 station near Washford
Washford
Washford is a small village on the Washford River in the English county of Somerset. It is within the civil parish of Old Cleeve and is best known as the site of Cleeve Abbey, one of the best-preserved medieval monasteries in England...

, Somerset, UK. It was built in 1933 and uses as antenna a T-antenna between two 152 metre-tall guyed masts separated by a distance of 159 metres. Originally the station used cage antennas around each mast.
The station uses the frequencies 882 kHz with 100 kW, 1089 kHz with 50 kW and 1215 kHz with 50 kW. In the old transmitter building, there is today a radio museum.
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