BC-DX TopNews WWDXC #945 BC-DX 945

History - Samara txers.
Regarding this item in DXLD and BC-DX #520:
TV reporter visits Popov txing centre in Samara. [Presenter] The Radio Day
is being marked today throughout Russia, including Samara Region which has
a unique site - a tx which sends out signals to almost half the world etc.
As usual when journalists are describing technical facilities, the outcome
is somewhat confusing.
The original Samara LW facility was constructed in 1942 on the basis of
the RV-1 500 kW tx in Moscow, which was evacuated beginning Oct 16, 1941,
and brought to Samara to escape the Hitler armies. Designed by Aleksandr
Mints, the father of Soviet high power bcing, RV-1 originally became
operational in April 1933 and consisted of 5 // 100 kW txers. The stn was
reopened in Samara in Nov 1942, where this monster size txer was further
expanded to 1200 kW.
An old Russian electronics textbook found by Bernd Trutenau shows a
picture of the 1200 kW facility (with no site mentioned). Russian DXers
going to Samara in the early '90s found a facility in good agreement with
the published picture at Novosemeykino, north of Samara.
During WW II a SW stn using several 15 kW txers was also built near
Samara. The exact location is not known. At the time of the visit by the
Russian DXers, the site of the 1200 kW txer also included a MW facility
and various rhombic antennas that could have been used by the 15 kW units.
The 1200 kW LW txer has since long been replaced by a new 2000 kW one west
of Syzran.
{sic, its Russian terrestrial radio navigation system
RUS RSDN Balasheyka Syzran GRI 8000 1150 kW Loran-C Chayka system, wb.}
This facility was confirmed by DXers passing by on the railway.
The replacement seems to have happened already before 1980. The current
txer has the registration number RV-390, the number of the old txer must
have been different as there were less than 150 txers on the air when it
started in Samara. Apparently the old txer site has been preserved as a
backup or perhaps as a museum.
The big SW stn in Samara is located in the nothern outskirts of Samara
city. It has a main section with dozens of curtain antennas and a second
section with some more curtains.
(Olle Alm-SWE, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 15, 2001)
Die urspruengliche Langwellenstation in Novosemeykino noerdlich von Samara
wurde 1942 errichtet, nachdem man 1941 den Moskauer Sender RV-1 abgebaut
und vor dem deutschen Angriff dorthin in Sicherheit gebracht hatte. Mehr
als 10000 Gefangene sollen am Bau beteiligt der Betonbunker gewesen sein
und viele haben es nicht ueberlebt. Der Moskauer Sender, der aus fuenf
100-kW-Einheiten bestand, war von Aleksandr Mints, dem Mentor der
sowjetischen Hochleistungssendertechnik, geplant worden und hatte im April
1933 seine Sendungen in Moskau begonnen. Nach der Wiederinbetriebnahme in
Samara im November 1942 wurde die Anlage bis auf 1,2 MW ausgebaut. Im
Weltkrieg sendete die Station rund um die Uhr in 26 Sprachen. Die deutsche
Luftwaffe soll versucht haben, die Station zum Schweigen zu bringen, die
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