BBC Three Counties Radio - Transmitters

Transmitters

BBC Three Counties Radio broadcasts on 90.4FM (Epping Green, near Hertford), 92.1FM (Bedmond, near Hemel Hempstead), 94.7FM (Quainton Hill, near Aylesbury), 95.5FM (Sandy Heath), 98.0FM (High Wycombe), 103.8FM (Zouches Farm, near Luton), 104.5FM (Bow Brickhill, near Milton Keynes), 630kHz MW (Lewsey Farm, near Luton), 1161kHz (Kempston, near Bedford), and streaming from the BBC 3CR website. BBC 3CR is not broadcast on digital radio; instead BBC London 94.9 is carried by the London 2 (Switch London) multiplex which is transmitted from Zouches Farm and Bedmond.

None of the transmissions are very powerful, but the Milton Keynes 104.5 FM signal from Bow Brickhill is the strongest and can be received the furthest; it can be heard in Swindon and as far north as Rugby (where it begins to interfere with Radio Derby). The 103.8 FM frequency can interfere with the BBC Radio Nottingham signal on the same frequency. The 95.5 FM frequency can be heard into Suffolk and fades in the Red Lodge area near Newmarket. The 630kHz signal from Lewsey Farm can be heard clearly as far north as Lincolnshire and depending on the weather during daytime hours on the East Norfolk coast around Great Yarmouth, and it can interfere with the Voice of Russia, which is on the same frequency.