RKS Liblice 1 was a facility for commercial
long wave
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radio transmission located in the
Czech Republic
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about east of
Prague
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near
Liblice
Liblice is a municipality and village in Mělník District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 500 inhabitants.
Etymology
The village was originally called Ľubice. The name was derived from the personal name Ľuba, ...
. It used a T-antenna hung on two tall insulated towers built of lattice
steel
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. The towers were demolished by explosives on August 11, 2004, as they were no longer needed.
The time-signal broadcasts on VLF ceased in 1995 and the medium-wave broadcast of Czech Radio Programme 2 was transferred to the adjacent site with a super-power transmitter,
Liblice II.
See also
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List of towers
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OMA (time signal)
External links
Liblice 1
Drawings of RKS Liblice 1- Mast 1 - SkyscraperPage.comDrawings of RKS Liblice 1- Mast 2 - SkyscraperPage.com
Towers in the Czech Republic
Former radio masts and towers
Kolín District
1931 establishments in Czechoslovakia
2004 disestablishments in the Czech Republic
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