SKEGNESS BEAM RADIO STATION

Part of the Empire Radio Service, Winthorpe, Skegness (Lincs) was the receiving radio station for India and Australia, with Tetney Beam as the transmitter station.

The aerials themselves looked like curtains of vertical wires hanging from the triatic bearers between the cross-arms at the tops of the masts. Each wire was attached at the lower end to a balance weight arm which kept the wire in tension. The lower end of each pair of aerial wires was connected to a special box and these in turn were connected by a system of copper pipes or feeder tubes to the particular receiver.

All the pictures below were taken in 1928 when the station was brought into service.