One of the two 350 kW TRAM transmitters, which used to broadcast Europe 1 on longwave from the Saarland in Germany, is back in service. It has been reinstalled at the Noratus station on Lake Sevan in Armenia. The transmitter has been modified by Broadcasting Center Europe to broadcast on medium wave.
This TRAM transmitter offers an efficiency close to 100%. Thanks to the modular system, broadcasting continues even when one or more modules fail: power is only reduced by 1 kW per defective module.
Modules with a power of 1 kW are grouped together in different cabinets per 50 kW. Modules can be replaced on the fly, without shutting down the transmitter.
The transmitter now broadcasts on 1377 kHz and replaces an old Soviet Borey RV 601 radio transmitter.
It is coupled to a KinStar low-profile directional antenna system, built by Kintronic Labs. It allows waves to be sent to azimuths -67, 127 and 247 degrees. (info Andrei Molokov, the page V contact “Радиорубка. Страницы истории Мощного Радио”).
In the evening, the transmitter broadcasts Trans World Radio programs to Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine.
(Translated from French with DeepL.com)
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