Monte Grande radio station
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Monte Grande radio station
LPV and LPZ
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| Place: | Monte Grande | ||||
| Province: | Buenos Aires Province | ||||
| Country: | Argentina | ||||
| Use: | Telecommunication system | ||||
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| Construction time: | Early 1920s | ||||
| Operating time: | 1924 - ???? | ||||
| Waveband : | VLF transmitter | ||||
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The Monte Grande radio station was a longwave radio station for overseas telegraphy near Buenos Aires , Argentina . The Monte Grande radio station used a transmitting antenna which was attached to ten masts, each 207 meters high, and which was shaped like a T. The Monte Grande radio station was put into operation on January 24, 1924 in the presence of President Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear . The system used a machine transmitter when it was commissioned .
The callsigns for the Monte Grande radio station were
- LPV The transmission frequency was 17.0 kHz , power 33.2 kW
- LPZ The transmission frequency was 23.6 kHz, power 72.1 kW
literature
- LPZ, the high power station in Buenos Aires In: Wireless World of December 3, 1924
Individual evidence
- ↑ Javier Albinarrate: Transradio Internacional SA In: albinarrate.com. August 18, 2009, Retrieved August 5, 2017 (Spanish).
- ^ Arthur D. Watt: VLF Radio Engineering. Elsevier, 2013, ISBN 978-1-483-15230-1 , p. 124 ( limited preview in Google book search).