RKS Liblice 1 was a facility for commercial
long wave
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 ...
radio transmission located in the
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ...
about east of
Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and List of cities in the Czech Republic, largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 milli ...
near
Liblice
Liblice is a municipality and village in Mělník District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 500 inhabitants.
Geography
Liblice is situated southeast of Mělník and northeast of Prague. It lies mostly in the Ji ...
. It used a T-antenna hung on two tall insulated towers built of lattice
steel. The towers were demolished by explosives on August 11, 2004, as they were no longer needed.
The time-signal broadcasts on VLF ceased in 1995 and the medium-wave broadcast of Czech Radio Programme 2 was transferred to the adjacent site with a super-power transmitter,
Liblice II.
See also
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List of towers
Several extant building fulfill the engineering definition of a tower: "a tall human structure, always taller than it is wide, for public or regular operational access by humans, but not for living in or office work, and are ''self-supporting' ...
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OMA (time signal)
External links
Liblice 1Drawings of RKS Liblice 1- Mast 1 - SkyscraperPage.comDrawings of RKS Liblice 1- Mast 2 - SkyscraperPage.com
Towers in the Czech Republic
Former radio masts and towers
Kolín District
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