- Sottens transmitter
The Sottens Transmitter is the nationwide transmitter for French speaking
Switzerland . The transmitter is located atSottens ,Canton of Vaud ,Switzerland . It is run on 765 kHz with a power of 600 kilowatts and is easily receivable during the night throughout the whole ofEurope . Since1989 theaerial used has been an aerial with feeding in the middle, fixed on a 188-metre high grounded freestanding steel framework tower. Before 1989 a 190-metre high selfradiating, free standing steel framework tower was used as a transmission aerial.The Sottens transmitter currently broadcasts Option Musique radio programme fromRadio Suisse Romande .Further there is a 125 metre tall free-standing lattice tower on the site. This tower, which was built in 1931, carried until 1958 together with a second tower of same height, which was dismantled in this year and rebuilt in Dole as TV transmission tower, a T-antenna for mediumwave broadcasting. In 1958 this tower, which is insulated against ground, was rebuilt in a tower radiator and used as backup antenna.
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List of towers External links
* [http://www.emetteurs.ch/gallery/sottens Sottens transmitter pictures] on emetteurs.ch
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* http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b44084
* http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b57952
* [http://www.giangrandi.ch/electronics/broadcast/sottens.html The Sottens transmitter] Retrieved 26 January 2006
* [http://www.biennophone.ch/MW-Sender.htm#Sottens Sottens transmitter] Sottens
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