Nador Transmitter
| Nador transmitter, Mast 1 | |
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| General information | |
| Status | Completed |
| Type | Mast radiator |
| Location | Nador, Morocco |
| Coordinates | 35°2′50″N 2°55′22″W / 35.04722°N 2.92278°W |
| Height | 380 m (1,250 ft) |
| Design and construction | |
| Main contractor | Medi 1 |
| Nador transmitter, Mast 2 | |
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| General information | |
| Status | Completed |
| Type | Mast radiator |
| Location | Nador, Morocco |
| Coordinates | 35°2′30″N 2°55′16″W / 35.04167°N 2.92111°W |
| Height | 380 m (1,250 ft) |
| Design and construction | |
| Main contractor | Medi 1 |
| Nador transmitter, Mast 3 | |
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| General information | |
| Status | Completed |
| Type | Mast radiator |
| Location | Nador, Morocco |
| Coordinates | 35°2′9″N 2°55′9″W / 35.03583°N 2.91917°W |
| Height | 380 m (1,250 ft) |
| Design and construction | |
| Main contractor | Medi 1 |
Nador transmitter is the main transmission facility for longwave and shortwave of Medi 1 Radio, a privately owned broadcasting company of Morocco. It is situated approximately 18 kilometres south of the city of Nador and a few kilometres south of Selouane at 35°2'29"N and 2°55'7"W.
The longwave transmitter of the Nador facility, which works at 171 kHz, had originally a transmission power of 2000 kilowatts. After 2009 the original equipment had been replaced by a new set of Thomson Broadcast S7HP solid-state transmitters with an output of 1600 kW. This modernization project incorporated a refurbishment of the three guyed masts, each 380 metres tall, thus the tallest structures in Africa after the demolition of the OMEGA Navigation System in Paynesville, Liberia in 2011.
In addition the Nador facility is also equipped with two Thomson 250 kW shortwave transmitters. One of these transmitters carried the main program of Morocco's state broadcaster SNRT on varying frequencies around 15345 kHz until it was switched off in September 2012. The other transmitter was used for Medi 1 on 9575 kHz, unheard since May 2017 as well.
Sources and references
- ^ Skyscraper page Diagram: 45644 - Mast 1
- ^ Skyscraper page Diagram:45645: Mast 2
- ^ Skyscraper page Diagram:59354 Mast 3
- ^ Thomson Broadcast, Radio News 2009, as quoted in: Glenn Hauser (2009-07-13). "DX Listening Digest 9-052". Retrieved 2015-05-26.
- ^ Tallest Structure in Africa Demolished.. Archived 2012-05-05 at the Wayback Machine, 10 May 2011, visited: 5 August 2011
- ^ Ludo Maes. "Shortwave radio broadcast countries: Morocco". Retrieved 2017-05-26.
- ^ Glenn Hauser (2012-10-03). "DX Listening Digest 12-40". Retrieved 2017-05-26.
15349.1, Sept 28 at 2045, IMM is still missing. What`s wrong at Nador?
- ^ Ivo Ivanov (2017-05-10). "From May 1 again no signal of Radio Medi 1 on 9575 kHz". Retrieved 2017-05-26.
External links
- Nador Transmitters at Structurae
- Entries at skyscraperpage