Wakarel transmitter

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Wakarel transmitter
Image of the object
Blaw-Knox transmitter mast Vakarel with two smaller transmitter masts in the foreground
Basic data
Place: Ichtiman - Wakarel
Oblast: Sofia city
Country: Bulgaria
Coordinates: 42 ° 33 ′ 0 ″  N , 23 ° 43 ′ 0 ″  E
Use: Broadcasting station
Accessibility: Transmission mast not open to the public
Owner : Bulgarian National Radio
Mast data
Construction time : 1937
Building material : steel
Operating time: 1937-2014
Data on the transmission system
Wavebands : LW stations , MW stations
Radio : LW broadcast , MW broadcast
Shutdown : December 31, 2014
Position map
Wakarel transmitter (Bulgaria)
Wakarel transmitter
Wakarel transmitter

The transmitter Vakarel ( Bulgarian Предавател Вакарел / Predawatel Wakarel) is a former large transmitter for long and medium wave near Wakarel in Bulgaria . The transmitter Vakarel has a "cigar-shaped" 215 meter high transmission mast ( Blaw Knox transmission tower ).

The Vakarel transmitter's cigar-shaped mast was built in 1937. Today it is the second tallest leaf Knox transmission mast in the world.

After the medium-wave transmitter had already been shut down a few years earlier, the long-wave transmitter, which used the Blaw Knox transmission tower as an antenna, was also switched off on December 31, 2014 at midnight local time (11 p.m. CET) due to savings measures. The long-wave transmitter last broadcast the first program of the Bulgarian radio, Radio Horizont, on the frequency 261 kHz with 75 kW transmission power.

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Individual evidence

  1. http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.de/2015/01/am-broadcasting-in-bulgaria-from.html?m=1
  2. Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radioeins.de