Leicester Peak transmitting station

It is now the primary (for SLBC) transmitting station providing broadcast services for the Western Area of Sierra Leone.

The building also included its own power generating room since there was no public supply on the mountain at that time.

The station was never directly attacked by rebels during the countries civil war which started in the early 1990s.

By the end of the war the VHF television service had been replaced with a lower power UHF transmitter.

Meanwhile, Radio France International had installed a transmitter to cover Conakry with a highly directional antenna system.

In 1999, the British Department for International Development[1] had started a project to re-equip and train the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service as it was then known.

The UN was also allowed to install a large tower and buildings for its own communications systems and UN radio station.

[2] In July 2006, Capital Radio Sierra Leone started broadcasting from Leicester Peak again under a rental agreement with SLBS, also combining into the existing SLBC/BBC antenna system.

Because of the problems, Capital Radio started a project to install a medium voltage power line to the site.