Aug 1, 2024 · This study investigates the impact of telecommunication infrastructure on residential property prices in Poland. This study contributes to the discussion of economic externalities
Consisting of 10 massive 126-metre-tall tower, the radio station’s transmitter was powerful enough to reach both North and South America. The Warsaw station was also one of the best equipped in the world with two machine transmitters of 200 kW each being powered by a 500 kW diesel-powered generator ensuring 24-hour communication with the US.
The elevator was built by the Swedish company Alimak. Finally, on May 18, 1974, after more than four years of work, the construction of the radio tower was completed and it was put into operation on June 22. Now let's take a look at the main technical characteristics of the Warsaw radio mast. So what was the design?
The construction of the Warsaw radio tower began in January 1970. The construction, which was directed by engineer Andrzej Shepchinsky, was attended mainly by Polish employees of the Mostostal enterprise and other local organizations. But the main part of the design - two transmitters - was built by the Swiss company Brown, Boveri & Cie.
The opening of the mast was met with extensive celebration and was covered by the Polish Film Chronicle. The tower was used by Warsaw Radio-Television (Centrum Radiowo-Telewizyjne) for radio broadcasting on a frequency of AM-LW (longwave) 227 kHz before 1 February 1988 and 225 kHz (1332m) afterwards.
Until 1995, there was a glimmer of hope that the Warsaw radio mast could be restored. The radio company then had to accept that this would never happen. As mentioned above, for about 17 years (from 1974 to 1991) the Warsaw radio mast was the higheststructure on Earth, having a height of 646.4 meters.
The Warsaw Radio Mast in its standing days (via Wikimedia) Until the Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai soared to its completed height of 2,722 feet in 2010, the highest structure ever built was actually a radio transmitter in Poland. Alas, the Warsaw Radio Mast is now rusting rubble, the heavenward spire bent down by human error.
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