Transmitter Cyclops
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Transmitter Cyclops
Cyclops relay station
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| Basic data | |||
| Place: | Marsaxlokk | ||
| District: | Marsaxlokk | ||
| Country: | Malta | ||
| Coordinates: 35 ° 50 ′ 27.8 " N , 14 ° 34 ′ 11.5" E | |||
| Use: | Broadcasting station | ||
| Owner : | German wave | ||
| Demolition : | 1996 | ||
| Data on the transmission system | |||
| Number of towers / masts: | 6th | ||
| Height of the towers / masts : | 88 m ,? m,? m | ||
| Construction time: | 1974 | ||
| Operating time: | 1974-1996 | ||
| Wavebands : | MW transmitter , SW transmitter | ||
| Radio : | MW broadcasting , KW broadcasting | ||
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The Cyclops transmitter was a Deutsche Welle relay station for short and medium waves at Cyclops on Malta . It was located on the prominent headland in the eastern part of the island.
The transmitter Cyclops used curtain antennas , which were suspended from three free-standing steel lattice towers, as well as a logarithmic-periodic antenna as transmission antennas for shortwave .
A directional antenna , which consisted of two self-radiating steel truss masts isolated from earth, was used as the transmitting antenna for the medium-wave transmitter, which worked on the frequency 1557 kHz with 600 kilowatts of transmission power . It was unusual that these were guyed with synthetic ropes made of Parafil. This antenna, which went into operation in 1974, originally consisted of three masts, each 88 meters high. However, one of the masts overturned after one of the guy ropes broke due to excessive field strengths and there was also a storm at the same time.
After the decline of medium-wave and short-wave radio , the Cyclops transmitter, which was another Deutsche Welle transmitter outside Germany in addition to the Sines station in Portugal (demolished at the beginning of 2013), was switched off and dismantled in 1996.