Nador transmitter is the main transmission facility for longwave and shortwave of Medi 1 Radio, a privately owned broadcasting company of

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. It is situated approximately 18 kilometres south of the city of

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and a few kilometres south of Selouane at 35°2'29"N and 2°55'7"W. The longwave transmitter of the Nador facility, which works on 171

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, had originally a transmission power of 2000

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s. After 2009 the original equipment had been replaced by a new set of Thomson Broadcast S7HP solid-state transmitters with an output of 1600 kW. This modernization project incorporated a refurbishment of the three

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masts, each 380 metres tall, thus the tallest structures in Africa after the demolition of the OMEGA Navigation System in

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in 2011. In addition the Nador facility is also equipped with two Thomson 250 kW shortwave transmitters. One of these transmitters carried the main program of Morocco's state broadcaster SNRT on varying frequencies around 15345 kHz until it was switched off in September 2012. The other transmitter was used for Medi 1 on 9575 kHz, unheard since May 2017 as well.

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Transmitter In electronics and telecommunications, a radio transmitter or just transmitter is an electronic device which produces radio waves with an antenna. The transmitter itself generates a radio frequency alternating current, which is applied to ...

Buildings and structures in Oriental (Morocco) Shortwave radio stations