Mendlesham transmitting station

The Mendlesham transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility, situated close to the village of Mendlesham, near the town of Stowmarket, in Suffolk, United Kingdom. It is owned and operated by Arqiva.
It has a high guyed steel lattice mast. It was originally commissioned to bring ITV signals to East Anglia, including Norfolk, Suffolk and parts of Essex and Cambridgeshire on 405-line VHF, using Channel 11.

History

Other sites considered in February 1958 for an ITV television mast were Tacolneston and Snetterton. By June 1958, the site was chosen. The site was in the village of Wetheringsett-cum-Brockford, but Mendlesham was the name of the nearby airfield.
For the new ITV region, the GPO would provide a link from London to Norwich, via Ongar, Essex, Sibleys Green, now known as Balfour Beatty.
When UHF television came to East Anglia, main transmitters were commissioned at Tacolneston, near Norwich and Sudbury, near Colchester. Mendlesham was not required in the UHF plan, so when 405 line television was discontinued in the UK in 1985, the mast ceased to be used for any broadcast transmissions for over a decade.
However, in 1997, the site was chosen to be a main transmitter for new regional commercial radio station Vibe FM, on 106.4 MHz VHF FM at a power of 20 kW. Vibe FM launched November 1997. Later in December 2001, national digital radio multiplex Digital One also added its antennas to the mast. The BBC National DAB Multiplex was added on 13 July 2010.

VHF analogue television was transmitted from Mendlesham from its launch in 1959 until the nationwide shutdown of VHF signals in 1985.

Frequency	VHF	kW	Service
	11	200	Anglia