UKGunthorpe
England · FM and MW
- Position
- 52.617202, -0.247858
- Grid reference
- TF18720360
- Nation
- England
- Ground height
- 3 m
- Antenna height
- —
How far it reaches
Two different questions, and the map below can be switched between them. Reaches is everywhere this mast puts a usable signal; strongest is the much smaller slice where nothing else does it better.
| Band | Reaches | Strongest in | |
|---|---|---|---|
| FM radio | 1.1% of UK Output Areas | 0.1% of UK Output Areas | a substantial transmitter |
More detail
Most places can receive several transmitters — a median Output Area hears twelve — and only one of them can be the best, which is why the two columns are so far apart. Reach counts an area once the model clears the reception threshold there at all, and it inherits the sweep's screen: only the strongest twenty candidates per area are stored, so a mast lying twenty-first somewhere does not count as reaching it. Both are a share of areas, deliberately, and not a number of homes: checked against Ofcom's own coverage the model ranks transmitters correctly (Spearman 0.861) but over-states how far each one gets by a median factor of 2.5. A share is a ranking statement and survives that; a household count would not. How this is worked out.
On the map
Everywhere Gunthorpe is predicted to reach for FM radio, shaded by how much signal is left over. Other transmitters reach most of this ground too.
Only the areas where Gunthorpe is the strongest option for FM radio — the ones the postcode lookup would send here. A smaller picture than its reach, and a different question.
The lines are how far the signal is modelled to get: solid while the margin still clears 10 dB, dashed out to where it last clears 0 dB. The real edge sits inside them — every point inherits the model's measured optimism of about 17 dB.
How the rings were drawn
It is an envelope, not a boundary: terrain can still block reception well inside it, and it is an edge, not a fill — the colour says how far the signal gets, not that every spot under it works. The traced outline is smoothed across 12 degrees of bearing, so no single ray can spike or notch it; the ground it encloses moves by well under a percent [V]. Zoom in and the shading gives way to the per-area prediction, which is the same question answered Output Area by Output Area. The FM radio ring was traced assuming an omnidirectional transmitting aerial, because Ofcom publish no radiation pattern for this site [I].
The modelled outer edge drawn above: FM radio about 84 km toward the north but only 39 km toward the west [I].
Open this transmitter on the full mapreach, the aerial direction, and everything else within range
FM radio
| Station | Frequency | ERP (H) | ERP (V) | Height | RDS name | PI code | Pattern |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heart | 102.7 MHz | 2.0 kW | 2.0 kW | 79 m | Heart___ | C36A | — |
| Smooth Radio | 106.8 MHz | 100 W | 100 W | 79 m | Smooth__ | C3A2 | — |
| Greatest Hits Radio | 107.7 MHz | 100 W | 100 W | 79 m | GRT_HITS | CEE5 | — |
Medium wave
| Station | Frequency | EMRP | Height | Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BBC Asian Network | 1,449 kHz | 150 W | 83 m | Midlands |
Other transmitters nearby
Every structure Ofcom list within 40 km, nearest first. Close is not the same as an alternative: most of these are single-service relays, and one of them may radiate a thousandth of this mast's power in a direction that misses you.