1. The installation of directional aerials also encouraged more AM stations. 2. It was part of the directional aerial for the AFN transmitter described above. 3. Directional aerials consist of multiple masts, which need not to be of the same height.4. The Meacon system involved separate locations for a receiver with a directional aerial and a transmitter. 5. Unusually, this transmitter also transmits neighbouring services Radio Sheffield from separate directional aerials on the mast. 6. The longwave transmitter uses a directional aerial with a maximum strength pointing northwest ( azimuth : 309?). 7. The directional aerial for 1296 kHz ( erected in 1978 ) consisted of six freestanding steel lattice towers. 8. It uses a directional aerial , consisting of a high and a high guyed grounded mast 330 metres apart. 9. Unlike the directional aerial for 648 kHz, they were arranged in two parallel rows with three towers in each. 10. However, in North Essex, Capital was out of range except for people with a very expensive directional aerial .