Raszyn radio transmitter

The transmitter Raszyn is a longwave broadcasting facility near the village belonging to Raszyn Lazy (Poland).

He went in 1931 with an output of around 120 kW as the strongest stations in operation in Europe. A power increase to 600 kW was planned, but did not come off because of the Second World War. With the approach of the German Wehrmacht found itself forced Poland to destroy the 280 -meter-high, used as antenna support mast itself.

In 1945, the station was rebuilt with around 500 kW.

Not too long after, in 1949, a new 335 -meter-high, insulated against ground transmission tower was built in Raszyn. He was at that time the tallest structure in Europe.

The transmitter Raszyn was to commissioning of the transmitter in Konstantynów in 1974, the location of the central longwave radio station of the Polish Radio.

From 1974 to 1978 he served as a reserve transmitter for this system. Since 1978, a second program of the Polish broadcasting is disseminated 198 kHz in the long wave range of the frequency of the system in Raszyn during the daytime hours. After the collapse of the transmitting mast in Konstantynów the plant served to the commissioning of the new long wave transmitter in Solec Kujawski ( Schulitz ) to broadcast the first program of the Polish broadcasting on the frequency 225 kHz. Since no simultaneous transmission on both long wave frequencies on the transmitter Raszyn is possible, the second long- wave frequency of the Polish Radio was not used during this time.