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corner below.
In some cases, curtain beam headings can easily detected by using the
present HFCC beaming list, sort the file first acc TX location and second
acc bearing column - see example under Sri Lanka or Thailand.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX July 27)
LW ?
WRTH shows MW 549 and 1377 kHz for Tavrichanka.
[a single mast seen at 43 20 02N 131 53 59E], so I guess the LW 243, and
MW site 648, and 810 kHz Razdolnoye is 830 meters further north on
different location, next to the two identical height LW masts
near 43d 20' 34"N, 131d, 53' 55"E.
Two small pipe [MW?] masts are seen on the right side of the LW area.
Ussuryisk 1251 kHz 600 kW, and IBB mentioned always 648 kHz 100 kW as USS.
some towers seen on the right side of the power plant
at 43 50 13 N 131 57 51 E
and 43 50 15 N 131 58 24 E - but seemingly all electricity towers,
also two tall towers at 43 50 24 09 N 131 58 45 E but radio towers?
where?
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX July 18)
Google Earth Imagery. Thanks for steering me back to Yekaterinburg. I
located the large site at 56d 55' 40" N, 60d 36' 02" E. It is indeed at
rather low contrast, making precise determination of the many curtain
array alignments a bit difficult. There are two virtually identical tx
buildings. The northerly one has two satellite dishes. The site extends
northward into low resolution imagery, hence I am sure not all of the
curtains are visible. There appears to be a very few scattered poles
presumably supporting dipoles that are located in the southerly portion of
the site.
[centered at 56 55 39 N 60 36 9 E wb.]
I also spent time today scanning high resolution imagery in the vicinity
of Krasnodar and found two interesting MW(?) sites for which I would
appreciate review comments from your colleagues.
75 km NW of Krasnodar near the town of Krasnoarmeyskaya is a seven mast
array configured in the form of a hexagon having a mast at each corner and
one in its center. All mast appear to be the same height. The masts are
spaced on the corners 600m apart and the tx building is adjacent to the
center mast. The precise location (center mast)
is 45d 24' 12" N, 38d 09' 29" E.
[centered at 45 24 12 N 38 09 27 E wb.]
55 km SE of Krasnodar near the town of Chernigovskaya is a similar hexagon
array with masts spaced about 930m apart. In addition, there is an outer
concentric hexagon array having masts spaced about 1,600m apart. The outer
hexagon is rotated 30 degrees from the orientation of the inner one. Three
seemingly identical tx buildings are located close to and centered on the
center mast. All inner hexagon masts appear to be the same height; outer
hexagon masts are about 85 percent shorter (based on shadow measurements).
The center mast seems to be the same height as the inner hexagon masts.
The precise location is 44d 46' 25" N, 39d 32' 50" E.
(Douglas Johnson-USA, via Olle Alm-SWE, wwdxc BC-DX July 25)
Centered at 44 46 25 N 39 32 50, inner hexagon masts 920 meters apart,
outer hexagon masts 1600 m apart. Seemingly both submarine radio stations
like: