Santa Palomba transmitter
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Santa Palomba transmitter
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| Basic data | ||||
| Place: | Santa Palomba | |||
| Region: | Lazio | |||
| Country: | Italy | |||
| Altitude : | 131 m slm | |||
| Coordinates: 41 ° 42 ′ 13 ″ N , 12 ° 34 ′ 50 ″ E | ||||
| Use: | Broadcasting station | |||
| Accessibility: | Transmission system not accessible to the public | |||
| Owner : | Raiway | |||
| Demolition : | 2012-2013 | |||
| Data on the transmission system | ||||
| Number of towers / masts: | 5 | |||
| Height of the towers / masts : | 186 m , 116 m, 116 m, 116 m, 75 m | |||
| Construction time: | 1929 | |||
| Operating time: | 1929-2008 | |||
| Waveband : | Medium wave | |||
| Radio : | MW broadcasting | |||
| Send type: | DRM | |||
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The Santa Palomba transmitter was a radio transmitter located in the town of Santa Palomba .
description
Santa Palomba had been the location of a large medium wave transmitter for the network operator Raiway since 1929 . The RAI program was broadcast from Santa Palomba on the medium wave frequencies 846 kHz (in digital DRM mode ) and 1332 kHz (analogue), which were also easy to receive in Germany in the evening hours.
Three antenna systems were used as antenna supports , namely a grounded, free-standing, 186-meter-high steel lattice tower with trap antennas , a directional antenna made up of three guyed 116-meter-high transmission masts and a 75-meter-high, grounded, free-standing steel lattice tower.
The 186-meter-high tower served as an operating antenna for the frequency of 846 kHz and had two independently feedable trap antennas, which were arranged on top of each other and which allowed radiation with low steep radiation ( anti-shrinkage antenna ). The directional antenna with the 116 meter high transmission masts was used to broadcast the program on the medium wave frequency of 1332 kHz. The 75 meter high steel lattice tower, equipped with a trap antenna, served as a reserve antenna for both frequencies. From the end of the 1990s to April 14, 2000, the frequency 846 kHz ran with 1200 kW (previously 540 kW) and the frequency 1332 kHz with 600 kW, after they were forced to go through due to enormously excessive radiation values that endangered the health of the residents a bailiff were shut down. The transmitter was put back into operation on May 13, 2000 with reduced transmission power, but had to be shut down again on August 15. After a restart followed, the administrative court obtained the shutdown of the medium-wave transmitter for the frequency 846 kHz on March 9, 2003 at 6 o'clock, the frequency 1332 kHz, which was operated with 300 kW, was not affected. At the beginning of April 2003, the transmitter for the frequency of 846 kHz was put back into operation with a greatly reduced output of 75 kW, but was initially completely shut down on May 15, 2004.
Rai Radio 2 and Rai Isoradio were broadcast as a package on 846 kHz from January to mid-May 2008 , but the available bit rate of approx. 23 kBit / s had to be split between the two programs, so that the sound quality suffered from it, which was before that January 31, 2007 an analogue program with low transmission power was again in operation.
After the 186 meter high steel lattice tower no longer existed in August 2012, the remaining masts have also been demolished since June 2013.
See also
Web links
- http://mediasuk.org/archive/palomba.html
- Transmission tower Santa Palomba I. In: Structurae
- Santa Palomba II transmission tower. In: Structurae
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kai Ludwig: Sender Santa Palomba is demolished. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 19, 2014 ; Retrieved June 28, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
