The Riga LVRTC Transmitter was a

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Ulbroka Ulbroka is a village in Stopiņi Parish, Ropaži Municipality in the Vidzeme region of Latvia. It is the administrative center of Stopiņi Parishand municipality. The village is crossed by two first category roads Rīga-Ērgļi (P4) and Rīga-O ...

near

Riga Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the B ...

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, which broadcast on 945 kHz a music program in

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-simulcast mode, which was receivable at night time in wide parts of Europe. It used as an antenna two guyed mast radiators. One of them was a guyed

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. The other smaller tower stays a

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. It is one of the few existing Blaw-Knox Radiators in Europe. Other towers of this type exist at

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, Lakihegy,

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and

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. Several masts were razed on 16 May 2010.

References

External links

* http://www.lvrtc.lv/tehres/popup.php?id=3 Towers in Latvia Radio masts and towers in Europe Buildings and structures in Riga {{Europe-mast-stub