Domžale transmitter
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Domžale transmitter
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| Local community: | Domžale | ||||||
| Country: | Slovenia | ||||||
| Altitude : | 302 m. i. J. | ||||||
| Coordinates: 46 ° 7 ′ 37.8 ″ N , 14 ° 35 ′ 11.1 ″ E | |||||||
| Use: | Broadcasting station | ||||||
| Accessibility: | Transmission mast not open to the public | ||||||
| Owner : | Radiotelevizija Slovenija | ||||||
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| Construction time : | 1978 | ||||||
| Building material : | steel | ||||||
| Operating time: | 1978-2017 | ||||||
| Total height : | 161 m | ||||||
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| Last modification (transmitter) : | 1993 | ||||||
| Waveband : | AM station | ||||||
| Radio : | MW broadcasting | ||||||
| Shutdown : | 4th September 2017 | ||||||
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The Domžale transmitter is a decommissioned transmitter of the Radiotelevizija Slovenija for medium wave. It is located in Domžale , a city in central Slovenia.
history
Domžale has been the location of a medium wave transmitter since 1928 . Until it was destroyed in World War II in 1941, this transmitter used a five-wire T-antenna, which was stretched between two 120-meter-high steel framework masts insulated from earth. In 1949, the rebuilding of the station began. As an antenna, it was given a 60-meter-high self-radiating transmission mast that was isolated from earth and went into operation on March 25, 1951.
A little later, this transmission mast was replaced by a 136-meter-high steel lattice mast insulated from the earth, and in 1969 the transmission power was increased to 200 kW . In the course of the drafting of the Geneva Wave Plan , the transmitter was allocated an output of 600 kW and the system was expanded in the second half of the 1970s: not only were new transmitters installed, but the old transmitter mast was also isolated from the ground by a 161 meter high guyed tubular steel mast replaced.
In July 1991 the station was attacked during the Slovenian War of Independence , with the 600 kilowatt transmitter being badly damaged. But since the old transmitter from the 1950s, the feed line of the transmitter mast and the transmitter mast were not damaged, there were only brief interruptions in operation. A fully transistorized transmitter from the Harris company had been in operation in Domžale since 1993. The maximum transmission power was 300 kW, which was limited to 50 kW for reasons of cost. The Domžale transmitter was easy to receive in Germany on the medium wave frequency 918 kHz in the evening hours.
On September 4, 2017 at 12:05 p.m., the transmitter in Domžale was switched off because the high operating costs could no longer be justified due to the decreasing number of listeners.
Web links
- Images and data about the sender (Slovenian)