Broadcasting station Boguchwała
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Broadcasting station Boguchwała
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| Basic data | ||||
| Place: | Boguchwała | |||
| Voivodeship: | Subcarpathian | |||
| Country: | Poland | |||
| Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 28.7 " N , 21 ° 54 ′ 52.6" E | ||||
| Use: | Broadcasters , jammers | |||
| Owner : | Polskie radio | |||
| Demolition : | February 2002 | |||
| Mast data | ||||
| Construction time : | 1952-1953 | |||
| Building material : | steel | |||
| Operating time: | 1953-2002 | |||
| Last conversion (mast) : | 1957 | |||
| Total height : | 128 m | |||
| Total mass : | 80 t | |||
| Data on the transmission system | ||||
| Last modification (transmitter) : | 1963 | |||
| Wavebands : | KW stations , MW stations | |||
| Radio : | MW broadcasting | |||
| Shutdown : | February 28, 1998 | |||
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The radio station Boguchwała was a transmission facility of the Polish radio for medium wave broadcasting and to interfere with the signal of Radio Free Europe in the short wave range near Boguchwała .
history
The radio station Boguchwala, the construction of which began in December 1952 and which went into operation a year later, used in the beginning a screen antenna, which was supported by a 60 meter high rope-anchored wooden mast and 12 smaller wooden masts. The 75 hectare area of the transmitter was double fenced and equipped with self-firing systems.
The frequencies for jamming operations were determined by the eavesdropping center in Dąbrowski and communicated to the broadcasting staff by telephone. A program produced in Warsaw, which was played via cable, was used to interfere. From 1955, a medium wave program was also broadcast. A transmitter with a power of 1 kW was used for this, while the jammer transmitted with 30 kW. In 1956 jamming operation was discontinued and the power of the radio transmitter was increased to 30 kW. A year later, the shield antenna was replaced by a 128-meter-high, self-radiating guyed steel framework mast weighing 80 tons.
In 1963 the power of this transmitter, which worked at 1305 kHz, was increased to 60 kW. This transmitter, the power of which was possibly later increased to 100 kW, remained in operation until it was shut down on February 28, 1998. The mast was demolished in February 2002.