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The tower is 53 metres tall and consists of a steel lattice tower on top of a concrete base. It was built in 1951 as part of chain of stations relaying television between Telephone House in Manchester and
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In 2002 it had 16 large microwave dishes providing point-to-point communications, and roughly 50 other small microwave dishes, mobile phone,
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transmitters. The BT dishes were 3 and 3.7 metres diameter and mostly transmitted on 11
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Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields in the Cookridge Area of Leeds
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K Fuller; KD Gulson; PM Judd; AJ Lowe; J Shaw (September 2002).
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Tinshill BT Tower on 5 March 2016 with large dishes removed
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NRPB-W23: Non-technical summary. Retrieved 21 June 2009.
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Tinshill BT Tower is located in West Yorkshire
Leeds
West Yorkshire
53°51′17″N 1°36′43″W / 53.854722°N 1.611944°W / 53.854722; -1.611944
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Leeds
West Yorkshire
England
BT towers
Kirk O'Shotts
British Telecom microwave network
paging
TETRA
GHz
Harold Best
Health Protection Agency
Telecommunications towers in the United Kingdom
Radio masts and towers
List of towers
"Manchester-Edinburgh Television Radio Relay System"
POEEJ
Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields in the Cookridge Area of Leeds
ISBN
0-85951-494-3
Health Protection Agency
Archived
Wayback Machine

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