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The Longwave transmitter Solec Kujawski (; ''RCN Solec Kujawski'') is a 
On 16 May 2017, an engineer was electrocuted and died during maintenance work on the power supply. The transmitter therefore had to remain silent for two more days while a safety review was conducted.
longwave
In radio, longwave (also spelled long wave or long-wave and commonly abbreviated LW) is the part of the radio spectrum with wavelengths longer than what was originally called the medium-wave (MW) broadcasting band. The term is historic, dati ...
broadcasting facility of Polskie Radio
The Polish Radio (PR; Polish: ''Polskie Radio'', PR) is a national public-service radio broadcasting organization of Poland, founded in 1925. It is owned by the State Treasury of Poland. On 27 December 2023, the Minister of Culture and Nationa ...
on a frequency of 225 kHz frequency (wavelength of 1333m). Its construction was necessitated by the collapse of the Warsaw radio mast on 8 August 1991 and the resistance of the local population to its reconstruction. The height above sea level
Height above mean sea level is a measure of a location's vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) in reference to a vertical datum based on a historic mean sea level. In geodesy, it is formalized as orthometric height. The zero level va ...
of the station is .
The station was built in 1998–99 on a former military area near Solec Kujawski
Solec Kujawski (Polish pronunciation: ) is a town in north-central Poland with 15,505 inhabitants, located in Bydgoszcz County in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. It is situated within the historic region of Kuyavia, around southeast of Bydgos ...
. The area was originally a hamlet
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called Kabat (Grosswalde) until World War II, when the Germans established a military artillery and rocket training ground in the area. It has three transmitters manufactured by Thomcast, each of 400 kW, giving a combined power of 1200 kilowatts. In practice it uses 1000 kW. The carrier frequency
In telecommunications, a carrier wave, carrier signal, or just carrier, is a periodic waveform (usually sinusoidal) that conveys information through a process called ''modulation''. One or more of the wave's properties, such as amplitude or fre ...
is, as in the earlier days of the Konstantynow transmitter, generated by a set of twin high-accuracy thermally-stabilized quartz oscillators. It transmits the longwave signal of Polskie Radio
The Polish Radio (PR; Polish: ''Polskie Radio'', PR) is a national public-service radio broadcasting organization of Poland, founded in 1925. It is owned by the State Treasury of Poland. On 27 December 2023, the Minister of Culture and Nationa ...
Program I at 225 kHz frequency, after changing from 227 kHz in 1988.
It uses a directional aerial, consisting of a high and a high guyed grounded mast 330 metres apart. The taller mast is Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...
's eighth highest structure.
Furthermore, there is a freestanding lattice tower
A lattice tower or truss tower is a freestanding vertical latticework, framework tower. This construction is widely used in transmission towers carrying high-voltage electric power lines, in radio masts and towers (a self-radiating tower or as a ...
close to the station building that is used for directional radio links, which serve among others for passing the program to the station.
On 16 May 2017, an engineer was electrocuted and died during maintenance work on the power supply. The transmitter therefore had to remain silent for two more days while a safety review was conducted.
Transmitted Programmes
See also
*List of masts
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References
External links
* * * https://web.archive.org/web/20050313231840/http://www.pg.gda.pl/~sp2pzh/solec.html * http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b45027 * http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b45028 {{Authority control Towers completed in 1999 Radio masts and towers in Poland Bydgoszcz County Buildings and structures in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship 1999 establishments in Poland