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SERVING THE MARINER SINCE 1920 - A FRIENDLY VOICE ON MANY A DARK NIGHT

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    • HOME
    • HISTORY
    • NEWS & ABOUT US
    • GALLERY - HIGHBRIDGE
    • GALLERY - PORTISHEAD
    • GALLERY - DEVIZES
    • GALLERY - SOMERTON RADIO
    • THE PONTING COLLECTION
    • COLOURISED PHOTOGRAPHS
    • RELATED RADIO STATIONS
    • 90TH ANNIVERSARY
    • AERO SERVICE
    • PUBLICITY MATERIAL
    • MEMORABILIA
    • VIDEOS
    • AUDIO FILES
    • LINKS
    • THE LIGHTER SIDE
    • MEMORIES OF GKA
    • COAST STATIONS
    • BOOKS ON MARITIME RADIO
    • GB100GKU

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  • HOME
  • HISTORY
  • NEWS & ABOUT US
  • GALLERY - HIGHBRIDGE
  • GALLERY - PORTISHEAD
  • GALLERY - DEVIZES
  • GALLERY - SOMERTON RADIO
  • THE PONTING COLLECTION
  • COLOURISED PHOTOGRAPHS
  • RELATED RADIO STATIONS
  • 90TH ANNIVERSARY
  • AERO SERVICE
  • PUBLICITY MATERIAL
  • MEMORABILIA
  • VIDEOS
  • AUDIO FILES
  • LINKS
  • THE LIGHTER SIDE
  • MEMORIES OF GKA
  • COAST STATIONS
  • BOOKS ON MARITIME RADIO
  • GB100GKU
Commemorative photograph signed by all attendees at the 90th Anniversary reunion.

PORTISHEAD RADIO 1928-2018

90 YEARS OF PORTISHEAD RADIO

2018 saw 90 years since Portishead Radio came into being. In 1928 the transmitter site at Devizes was moved to Portishead, near Bristol, with the existing Burnham Radio receiving station being maintained as the operational centre.






SPECIAL EVENT AMATEUR RADIO STATIONS - JULY 2018

GB0GKA

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Operated by Tony Roskilly/G3ZRJ from his home location near Tiverton, Devon.

GB0GKB

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Operated by Larry Bennett/G4HLN from  Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset.

GB0GKC

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Operated by Pete Smith/G3TJE from Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset.

"RADIO COMMUNICATION" ARTICLE - JANUARY 2019

GKA STAFF REUNION 28TH JULY 2018

  • All photographs and website content © Portishead Radio 2020: BT plc, Tom Ponting, Phil Lewis, John Lamb, Robin Hargreaves, Brian Stewart, Ramsay Stuart, Larry Bennett and many others.  
  • Photographs of Devizes Radio courtesy of the Crank family.  
  • Colour photographs of Portishead Transmitter Site © Jim Sulley

 
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