Portofino transmitter
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Portofino transmitter
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| Basic data | ||||
| Place: | Portofino Vetta , Santa Margherita Ligure | |||
| Metropolitan City: | Genoa | |||
| Region: | Liguria | |||
| Country: | Italy | |||
| Coordinates: 44 ° 19 '55.8 " N , 9 ° 10' 16.9" E | ||||
| Use: | Broadcasting station | |||
| Owner : | Radiotelevisione Italiana | |||
| Data on the transmission system | ||||
| Number of towers / masts: | 2 | |||
| Height of the towers / masts : | 130 m | |||
| Wavebands : | AM stations , FM stations | |||
| Radio : | AM broadcast , VHF broadcast | |||
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The transmitter Portofino is a facility of the Radiotelevisione Italiana for the distribution of television and radio programs in the FM and medium wave range near Portofino Vetta , metropolitan city of Genoa , Italy .
Particularly noteworthy about this system is the medium-wave transmitter operated at 1575 kHz with 50 kW, which can also be received in Germany at night, because it uses a vertical wire as a transmitting antenna that is suspended from a rope, which is between the 130 meter high transmission tower for VHF and TV and a building 590 meters away on the other side of the valley.
The radio station Portofino is likely to be the only radio station in Europe that uses a rope stretched over a valley as part of the system. In addition to the main transmission tower, there is a second free-standing steel lattice tower with a triangular cross-section.