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The Longwave transmitter Solec Kujawski is a longwave
In radio, longwave, long wave or long-wave, and commonly abbreviated LW, refers to parts of the radio spectrum with wavelengths longer than what was originally called the medium-wave broadcasting band. The term is historic, dating from the e ...
broadcasting facility of the Polish Radio
Polskie Radio Spółka Akcyjna (PR S.A.; English: Polish Radio) is Poland's national public-service radio broadcasting organization owned by the State Treasury of Poland.
History
Polskie Radio was founded on 18 August 1925 and began making ...
for the AM-LW (long wave) 225 kHz frequency/1333 meters wavelength. Its construction was necessary after the collapse of the Warsaw radio mast
The Warsaw Radio Mast (Polish: ''Maszt radiowy w Konstantynowie'') was a radio mast located near Gąbin, Poland, and the world's tallest structure at from 1974 until its collapse on 8 August 1991. Designed by Jan Polak, and one of the la ...
on August 8, 1991 and the resistance of the local population to its reconstruction. Tower Height 948 feet/289 meters and 1080 feet/330 meters. Height above sea level 209 feet/64 meters MSL (Mean Sea Level).
The transmitter was built in 1998/99 on a former military area near Solec Kujawski
Solec Kujawski (Polish pronunciation: ; german: Schulitz) is a town in north-central Poland with 15,505 inhabitants, located in Bydgoszcz County in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. It is situated within the historic region of Kuyavia, around ...
. The area was originally a hamlet
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called Kabat (Grosswalde) until World War II, when the Germans established a military artillery and rocket training ground in the area. The transmitter in this facility has a power of 1200 kilowatts (used 1000 kW) and is equipped with MOSFET
The metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET, MOS-FET, or MOS FET) is a type of field-effect transistor (FET), most commonly fabricated by the controlled oxidation of silicon. It has an insulated gate, the voltage of which d ...
amplifiers. The carrier frequency
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is, as in earlier days in the transmitter Konstantynow, generated by a set of twin high-accuracy thermally-stabilized quartz oscillators.
It uses a directional aerial, consisting of a high and a high guyed grounded mast 330 metres apart. The taller mast is Poland
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's eighth highest structure.
Furthermore, there is a freestanding lattice tower
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close to the station building that is used for directional radio links, which serve among others for passing the program to the station.
Transmitted Programmes
See also
*List of masts
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External links
* * {{Structurae, id=20014174, title=Solec Kujawski Tower II * https://web.archive.org/web/20050313231840/http://www.pg.gda.pl/~sp2pzh/solec.html * http://jerzyjedrzejkiewicz.webpark.pl/str01/gabin-rcn_02.html * http://archiwum.wiz.pl/1999/99113500.asp * http://www.latozradiem.pl/galeria.aspx?cid=439 * http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b45027 * http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b45028Google Maps
* http://radiopolska.pl/wykaz/pokaz_lokalizacja.php?pid=610 Towers completed in 1999 Radio masts and towers in Poland Bydgoszcz County Buildings and structures in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship 1999 establishments in Poland