Sud Radio Transmitter Pic Blanc was a

medium wave Medium wave (MW) is a part of the medium frequency (MF) radio band used mainly for AM radio broadcasting. The spectrum provides about 120 channels with more limited sound quality than FM stations on the FM broadcast band. During the daytim ...

radio transmitter located in the

Principality of Andorra Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, is a sovereign landlocked country on the Iberian Peninsula, in the eastern Pyrenees in Southwestern Europe, bordered by France to the north and Spain to the south. Believed to have been crea ...

, a small country to the south of France and the north of Spain. The transmitter is located on the mountain of Pic Blanc at sea level.

Sud Radio

Sud Radio Sud Radio is a French privately owned radio station, founded in 1958. Until 2017, it was headquartered in Labège, Haute-Garonne near Toulouse, before it moved to Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine. This relocation to the Parisian region allows for the ra ...

(meaning South Radio) is a French commercial radio station. It was founded in 1951 as ANDORRADIO S.A. with 51% of the shares being held by Sofirad. The aim was to create a new radio station in Andorra. It started broadcasting on 18 September 1958 and was called ''Andorradio''. On 29 March 1961 an agreement was signed allowing two stations to transmit from Andorra. The station, then called ''Radio des Vallées d'Andorre'' ("Radio of the Valleys of Andorra") became ''Radio des Vallées - Andorra 1'' in 1961 and then ''Sud Radio'' in 1966.

The mast

Whilst in operation, it was the highest medium wave transmitting station in Europe. It was built in 1972 by

and uses a

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consisting of two free-standing 86 metre tall lattice towers. One of these towers is insulated against ground, while the other one is grounded and carries a

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. The transmitter worked on 819 kHz with a power of 900 kilowatts. It was shut down in November 1981. As replacement, a small transmitter at Gauré near

Toulouse Toulouse (, ; ; ) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and of the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania region. The city is on the banks of the Garonne, River Garonne, from ...

was built. Now the facility is abandoned and one of the two towers has been partly dismantled.

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* http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b58031 * http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b58032 Radio masts and towers in Europe Buildings and structures in Andorra Towers completed in 1972 1972 establishments in Andorra {{Europe-mast-stub

Sud Radio

The mast

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