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[[File:Chain home.jpg|thumb|The Swingate towers were originally equipped with platforms like this one at [[Great Baddow]] in Essex, the only Chain Home radar tower to retain the original platforms.]]▼
The '''Swingate transmitting station''' is a facility for FM-transmission in the village of [[Swingate, Kent|Swingate]], near [[Dover]], [[Kent]] ({{gbmapping|TR334429}}). For many years there were three lattice towers with a height of {{convert|111|m|ft|0}}. This station was one of the first 5 [[Chain Home]] Radar stations completed in 1936 and was originally designated AMES ([[Air Ministry Experimental Station]]) 04 Dover. The FM transmitting [[Antenna (radio)|antennas]] are attached to what was the middle tower; [[microwave]] link dishes and [[mobile telephone]] antennas were spread across all three towers. The south tower was dismantled in March 2010, as a result, only two remain.
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== Channels available from this site ==
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=== High Frequency Trading ===
Several of the microwave dishes located on one of the towers provide connections via a chain of towers between the NYSE Euronext datacentres in Basildon and Slough, and Frankfurt for use in High Frequency Trading
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