Vigra transmitter was a transmitter facility for

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broadcasting Broadcasting is the distribution (business), distribution of sound, audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic medium (communication), mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio ...

near

Vigra Vigra is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county on the west coast of Norway. The municipality existed from 1890 until its dissolution in 1964 when it was merged into the present-day Giske Municipality. The former municipality was mad ...

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. The Vigra transmitter was inaugurated by the

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(NRK) in .Bernt Erfjord: Norske Kringkastingssendere(Vintage Norwegian AM Transmitters)(In Norwegian)
/ref> It was used until 1953 for transmission with a

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. This antenna was replaced in 1952/53 by a guyed, steel-tube

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insulated against the earth with a height of 243 metres. In 1999, the height of the mast was reduced for air traffic safety reasons to 232 metres. The Vigra transmitter frequency was 630 kHz with a power of 100 kilowatts, enabling it to be received at night in much of Europe, with the daytime signal taking in Iceland, the Faroes, Shetland and Orkney Islands, Scotland and up to

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Island in Norway. The service was shut down on , and the high antenna was demolished on September 8, 2011 with help from the

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using explosives.

References

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20060827174010/http://www.waniewski.de/id295.htm
Oversikt over Norske Kringkastere utarbeidet ved samarbeid mellom DX-Listeners' Club (DXLC) og Just N. Qvigstad (In Norwegian)
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