Grigoriopol transmitter

Coordinates: 47°16′54″N 29°25′22″E / 47.28167°N 29.42278°E / 47.28167; 29.42278
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47°16′54″N 29°25′22″E / 47.28167°N 29.42278°E / 47.28167; 29.42278 The Grigoriopol transmitter, officially the Transnistrian Radio and Television Center, is a very large broadcasting facility situated near Maiac, an urban settlement 11 km (7 miles) northeast of Grigoriopol, Transnistria (Moldova).[1][2][3]

History

At the end of the 1960s, the Soviet Union began building a powerful radio broadcasting station for propaganda to Western countries in Grigoriupol.

mediumwave range, took place between 1968 and 1975. The antennas consisted of several systems for shortwave with heights between 60 and 160 metres (200 and 520 ft) and a large rotatable shortwave antenna, which could focus its radiation to every point on Earth. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, its transmitters were used by several foreign broadcasting companies, mainly the missionary organization Trans World Radio. In 1997 several antennas were destroyed or damaged by excessive icing
. The largest loss was a 350-metre-tall (1,150 ft) guyed mast and a 250-metre-tall (820 ft) mast used for mediumwave broadcasting.

The de facto Transnistrian authorities sold the facility to the Russian state media company RIA Novosti in 2007. The Russian Federation mandated the Moscow-based pro-government broadcasting network Vesti FM to also broadcast over Grigoriupol's powerful medium-wave transmitters. Moscow based Vesti FM started broadcasting on 1413 KHz with 500 KW power from 2014, just before the start of the Ukraine crisis. The programme thus reached not only the entire Ukraine, but also a large part of the rest of Europe.[4]

As of 2021, it was being used as a medium wave transmitter for Vesti FM on 1413 kHz with 500 kW and Trans World Radio on 999 kHz (500 kW) and 1548 kHz (1000 kW), as well for shortwave transmissions on 9940, 11805, 11530 and 11570 kHz for TWR mostly.[5]

Multiple antennas were destroyed in the course of

Russian invasion of Ukraine was taking place.[9]

  • Shortwave rotating antenna (1 MW)
    Shortwave rotating antenna (1 MW)
  • Medium wave antenna
    Medium wave antenna
  • Stationary shortwave antennas
    Stationary shortwave antennas

References

External links

Media related to Mayak radio center (Grigoriopol, Transnistria) at Wikimedia Commons