Month: April 2022

https://www.wbaa.org/general-news/2022-04-26/finnish-am-radio-hobbyist-hears-wbaa-from-over-4-000-miles-away

https://kfgo.com/2022/04/26/blasts-hit-soviet-era-radio-antennae-in-breakaway-moldovan-region-authorities-say/

The two most powerful antennas of Grigoriopol transmitter in Transnistria has been destroyed.
In the early morning of April 26, two explosions erupted in the village of Mayak, Grigoriopol district: the first at 6:40 and the second at 7:05. As of 9 am, the two most powerful antennas are out of service, one a 1000 kW and the other a 500 kW. Both were transmitting Russian state owned radio (most likely Vesti FM on 1413 kHz).
It was built in the late 1960s.
A giant 100 metres high 1000 kW antenna is capable of transmitting waves over any distance – the waves can circle the Earth and come back.
The main customers of transmitting service are the Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network and the Transworld Radio.

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https://blog.radioreporter.org/ukraine-medium-wave-switched-back-on-to-support-fm-network