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Highbridge, c.1986</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Portishead Radio</b> (callsign GKA) was a <a href="/wiki/Radio_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Radio station">radio station</a> in England that provided worldwide <a href="/wiki/Category:Maritime_communication" title="Category:Maritime communication">maritime communications</a> and long-range <a href="/wiki/Airband" title="Airband">aeronautical communications</a> from 1928 until 2000. It was the world's largest and busiest long-distance HF maritime radio station.<sup id="cite_ref-johnson_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-johnson-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1974, the station employed 154 radio operators who handled over 20 million words per year.<sup id="cite_ref-jproc_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jproc-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was originally operated by the <a href="/wiki/General_Post_Office" title="General Post Office">General Post Office</a> (GPO), then the Post Office (1969–1981), and subsequently by British Telecom, which was privatised in 1984. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="1920–1939"><span id="1920.E2.80.931939"></span>1920–1939</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portishead_Radio&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: 1920–1939"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The UK's long-range maritime service commenced from a site at <a href="/wiki/Devizes_wireless_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Devizes wireless station">Morgan's Hill</a>, Devizes, Wiltshire, in 1920. In 1925, a remote receiving centre at <a href="/wiki/Highbridge,_Somerset" title="Highbridge, Somerset">Highbridge</a>, near Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, was opened, and in 1928 a transmitting station was opened at Portishead, from which the name "Portishead Radio" was derived.<sup id="cite_ref-G4HLN_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-G4HLN-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The main transmitting station, which was remotely operated from the Highbridge site, originally consisted of a large array of radio masts at nearby <a href="/wiki/Portishead,_Somerset" title="Portishead, Somerset">Portishead Downs</a>. High-power transmitters for the maritime service were operated from a site at <a href="/wiki/Hillmorton" title="Hillmorton">Hillmorton</a>, Rugby. By 1936, the station had a staff of 60 radio officers who handled over 3 million words of radio traffic per year.<sup id="cite_ref-gka_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gka-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="World_War_II">World War II</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portishead_Radio&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: World War II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The station played a vital role during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> in maintaining communications with the <a href="/wiki/British_Merchant_Navy" class="mw-redirect" title="British Merchant Navy">British merchant navy</a> and with patrol aircraft in the <a href="/wiki/North_Atlantic" class="mw-redirect" title="North Atlantic">North Atlantic</a>. During the war, all communications with ships were one-way in order to avoid revealing the ships' locations to the enemy.<sup id="cite_ref-gka_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gka-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The station was short-staffed because many staff were on <a href="/wiki/Secondment" title="Secondment">secondments</a> to various government services, such as operating other radio stations and training new radio officers to work in naval convoys.<sup id="cite_ref-jproc_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jproc-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1943, the workload was so great that <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> officers and 18 telegraphists were brought in from (amongst others) HMS <i>Flowerdown</i>, a Naval Shore Wireless Service station near <a href="/wiki/Winchester" title="Winchester">Winchester</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-jproc_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jproc-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-mnc_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mnc-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Post-war_expansion_and_decline">Post-war expansion and decline</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portishead_Radio&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Post-war expansion and decline"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1948, the station was expanded again, adding two operating rooms with 32 new radio operator positions, a broadcasting and landline room, and a file of ship and aircraft positions plotted using magnetic indicators on a 36 by 16 ft steel map of the world.<sup id="cite_ref-jproc_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jproc-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other maps covered the North Atlantic and Western European areas. </p><p>During the 1950s and 1960s there was a steady increase in traffic levels, and the <a href="/wiki/Telex" title="Telex">telex</a>-over-radio (TOR) system started operations. By 1965, the station employed 86 radio officers who handled over 11 million words of traffic per year, communicating with on average over 1,000 ships per day.<sup id="cite_ref-jproc_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jproc-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Queen Elizabeth II visited the station in 1958. </p><p>By 1974, traffic levels reached over 20 million words per year, handled by 154 radio officers. The rise in traffic was driven by demand from the oil market, the deep-water fishing industry, and the leisure boating market.<sup id="cite_ref-jproc_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jproc-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the Portishead transmitter site closed in 1978,<sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Dorchester in 1979,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the service – still called Portishead Radio – used transmitters at <a href="/wiki/Rugby_Radio_Station" title="Rugby Radio Station">Rugby</a> (Warwickshire), <a href="/wiki/Leafield_Technical_Centre" title="Leafield Technical Centre">Leafield</a> (Oxfordshire) and Ongar (Essex).<sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Competition from satellite communications, beginning with <a href="/wiki/Marisat" title="Marisat">Marisat</a> in 1976 later the <a href="/wiki/Inmarsat" title="Inmarsat">Inmarsat</a> network, initially had little effect on the station's business, which continued to expand. Following the division of the Post Office in 1981, the station was operated by <a href="/wiki/British_Telecommunications" class="mw-redirect" title="British Telecommunications">British Telecommunications</a>. In 1983, a new control centre was opened, adding new radiotelephone and radiotelegraphy consoles, and an automatic radiotelex facility.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The transmitter sites at Leafield and Ongar closed around 1990.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In addition to maritime and aeronautical radio services, the station provided communications facilities for fixed stations worldwide such as relief agencies, emergency and disaster relief companies, and industries where reliable landline communications were poor or non-existent. This was known as the 'Gateway' service and operated from the early 1980s until closure.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the station's penultimate year to March 1999, there were on average per month 571 radio <a href="/wiki/Telegram" class="mw-redirect" title="Telegram">telegrams</a>, 533 radio telephone calls, and 4,001 radio telex calls.<sup id="cite_ref-oftelconsultation_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oftelconsultation-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Closure_and_redevelopment_of_the_site">Closure and redevelopment of the site</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portishead_Radio&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Closure and redevelopment of the site"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1998, British Telecom Maritime Radio Services announced the planned closure of Portishead Radio.<sup id="cite_ref-oftelconsultation_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oftelconsultation-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The long-range services (<a href="/wiki/High_frequency" title="High frequency">HF</a> bands 3–30 <a href="/wiki/MHz" class="mw-redirect" title="MHz">MHz</a>) were planned to cease at 12:00 GMT on 30 April 2000. The short-range <a href="/wiki/VHF" class="mw-redirect" title="VHF">VHF</a> maritime band (156–174 MHz) services were scheduled to close at the same time, and the medium-range services (<a href="/wiki/Medium_frequency" title="Medium frequency">MF</a> maritime band 1.6–3.0 MHz) services at 12:00 on 30 June. The station formally closed at 1200 UTC on 30 April 2000.<sup id="cite_ref-Maritime_radio_stations_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Maritime_radio_stations-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In September 2004, <a href="/wiki/Sedgemoor_District_Council" title="Sedgemoor District Council">Sedgemoor District Council</a> adopted a local development plan that proposed the site of Portishead Radio for future housing development.<sup id="cite_ref-sdlp_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sdlp-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In October 2007, planning permission for a development of 190 houses and flats on the site was granted, and shortly afterwards the radio station buildings were demolished. </p><p>In 2007, the buildings at the Highbridge site were demolished to make way for the Mulholland Park housing estate, named after former station manager Don Mulholland and his father Robert, who also worked at the station. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Commemoration">Commemoration</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portishead_Radio&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Commemoration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Around 2015, a sculpture by <a href="/wiki/Rick_Kirby" title="Rick Kirby">Rick Kirby</a> of five female figures holding hands, titled 'Arc of Angels', was installed close to the Portishead transmitting site to commemorate the five radio towers and their role.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2020, planned celebrations commemorating the 100th anniversary of the long-range maritime service were put on hold due to COVID-19. 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