The Belmont transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications structure in Lincolnshire, England. It is owned and operated by Arqiva.
It has a guyed tubular steel mast, with a lattice upper section. The mast was shortened in April 2010 and is now 1,154 feet (351.7 m) in height. Before this it was 1,272 feet (387.7 m) high and was considered to be the tallest structure of its kind in the world (taller masts, such as the KVLY-TV mast in the United States, use steel lattice construction), the tallest structure of any type in the United Kingdom. After the top section was removed, the mast's reduced height relegated it to the second-highest in the UK after Skelton.
Despite the mast being shortened it can be seen in daylight on clear days from most areas close to and within the Lincolnshire Wolds.
We have included Stenigot Home Chain Radar Tower in this release. There is some serious history behind it, way to much to mention here but it's worth having a read of the Wiki about it: Chain Home Radar
It’s a great VFR reference and I’ve done my best to re-create it for FS2020.
Please see the attached PDF file inside the zip file which covers: Installation; Finding the community folder; Licensing; Credits; Contacts; Change Log.
This scenery works very nicely with other plugins I developed for the area, links should be at the bottom of the page.
See you in the Sim!
Chris [ AKA CAPT 5L0W ]
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The Chain Home mast is incomplete, and if you wanted to show it in its original form, you'd need to add the top plates http://www.johnhearfield.com/Radar/Towers.gif. Picky, picky - I know, but I remember them when there were still 3 standing there. Here's a diagram of what a complete array looked like, BTW http://www.johnhearfield.com/Radar/Exciter.gif. Perhaps you could use these to build on your work and create a whole Chain Home radar site (please). Here's a picture of what the (transmitter) tower part of a station would have looked like, for interest https://d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net/w1200h1200/collection/IWM/IWM/IWM_IWM_LD_5735-001.jpg. Until just now (showing my ignorance) I hadn't realised that Chain Home consisted of both transmitter masts (like the Stenigot ones) and receiver masts (!) (plus a number of brick buildings). Here's a link that sows both sets of masts, plus a complete tower http://www.rochforddistricthistory.org.uk/documents/ChainHomeCanewdon1.pdf.
Well, that's probably more than you wanted to know about Chain Home, so sorry if I've bored you silly!
1 years ago
Hi John,
Thanks for the messages and the rating. Yeah I went through a lot of the historical information on the Chain Home when I was putting this together originally, really interesting stuff and THE beginning of radar.
For the time being I decided to make it true to current real life for the VFR pilots, but may do another historical version at some point. Payware products are our main priority at the moment with the revenue being quite slow to come in.
I'm also going through and updating our back catalogue from our freeware era to make sure it's all still compatible and adding a few improvements here and there. The other remaining Chain Home towers will be the next update to release.
All the best,
Chris
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JohnG
My Grandparents lived about halfway between these two Lincolnshire icons, in Donnington-On-Bain, so these two offer me rich memories of my youth (up until I was 5, anyway, when we emigrated)
Thank you.
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JohnG
Great Scenery. Thanks.
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car767
Would you by any chance also like to place the other remaining Chain Home towers to Swingate (2) and Dunkirk (1) in Kent, and one to Great Baddow in Essex?
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Archer374
Makes it easier to find and fly over Cadwell Park.
This is a 'must have' for anyone who flys VFR in Lincolnshire.
Job well done Chris.
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LincolnshirePoacher
Needs a UK tag on it so it shows up in Countries section?
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