The Heilsberg transmitter (german: Sender Heilsberg) was a large radio transmitting station operated by the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft between 1930 and 1945 in the German

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. It was sited approximately northwest of Lidzbark Warmiński (known until 1945 as ''Heilsberg''), on the road to

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(''Preußisch Eylau'').

History

It went live on 15 December 1930 with a transmitting power of 60 kilowatts, using a vertical cage

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, which was hung with a rope spun between two tall free-standing wood towers apart. In 1935, the transmitting power was increased to 100 kilowatts and the vertical cage aerial was replaced by a dipole with top capacity and coil, which was carried by a high free-standing wood tower. In 1940, this was replaced with a high guyed mast of square cross section lattice steel, which was insulated against ground. In addition, a triangle plane antenna and a high guyed mast (also insulated against ground) were installed. On 31 January 1945, the facility was destroyed by the largest part of the withdrawing ''

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'' armed forces. After

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a transmitter was operated on the site by the Soviet Foreign Service. From the mid 1950s until the mid 1990s a local program was broadcast there with low power. A shortwave facility for cross-border skywave jamming beamed towards the

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and

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has existed in Lidzbark Warmiński. The jamming facility was shut off for good in late 1988. The present-day Broadcast Transmitting Site ( pl, Radiofoniczny Ośrodek Nadawczy, RON) at Lidzbark Warmiński which has a tall antenna is today used for broadcasting of

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on 106,2 MHz with 10 kW ERP and the TV programme TVP 1 on 527,25 MHz with 200 kW ERP.

External links

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Heilsberg Transmitter - Cage Antenna Support Towers, Lidzbark Warminski
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Heilsberg Transmitter - Radio Tower, Lidzbark Warminski
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Heilsberg Transmitter - Radio Mast, Lidzbark Warminski
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