Roumoules Mediumwave and Shortwave Transmitting Facility

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Roumoules Mediumwave Transmission Antenna is a switchable directional antenna consisting of 5 ground-fed guyed masts. It allows a switchale directional radiation in the following directions:

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! Destination !! Azimuth
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|Scandinavia || 25°
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|Eastern Europe || 85°
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|Italy and Greece || 150°
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|Spain, Portugal, Northern Africa || 241°
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|UK || 325°
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The action for changing the direction lasts only 5 seconds. Remarkable is, that there are no helix buildings at the basements of the masts used for mediumwave transmission and that the devices for tuning the masts to the transmission line, which is as that of the longwave transmitter built as overhead line, are placed in the open air.

The mediumwave transmitter of Roumules transmitter has an output power of 1000 kW. It is also used for transmitting the religious program of Trans World Radio (TWR). In opposite to the longwave transmitter, which can be received at day- and nighttimes well in Southern France, Northern Italy, Switzerland and Southern Germany, this transmitter cannot be normally received well in areas more than 100 kilometres away from Roumoules. However at nighttime its waves may have because of its excellent skywave propagation at least the same range as those of the longwave transmitter.

URL: www.twr.org