Radio Mosca - Transmission Network

Transmission Network

The Voice of Russia continues to broadcast to most of the world on shortwave and mediumwave, satellite, via the World Radio Network and via the Internet. Interestingly, broadcasts with strong signals targeted at Europe continue. Many major international broadcasters no longer target shortwave broadcasts at Europe, including the Cold War rivals of Radio Moscow: the Voice of America and BBC World Service (China Radio International continues, and has expanded, short wave broadcasts to Europe).

Radio Moscow's and Voice of Russia's shortwave (SW) transmission network has never been equalled in its transmission power, directivity and reach. During the station's peak in the 1980s the same programmes could often be heard on anything up to forty frequencies on the (heavily overcrowded) shortwave bands although the station never published its complete or accurate time/frequency schedule. It is unclear whether the station's staff knew what freqencies it was broadcasting on.

The transmission network consisted of at least 30 high-power transmission sites (West to East, with first transmission dates):

• Wachenbrunn, East Germany (1000 kW carrier power, MW)
• Bolshakovo (2500 kW carrier power, MW)
• Saint Petersburg (1961)
• Moscow (5 known high-power SW transmission sites)
• Krasnodar (1967)
• Volgograd
• Kamo, Armenia (site ceded to Armenia, but operated by RMOC)
• Samara
• Yekaterinburg
• Tashkent (1000 kW carrier power?)
• Dushanbe (1000 kW carrier power)
• Omsk
• Novosibirsk (1956)
• Irkutsk (Angarsk, 1971) [2 × 100 kW, 4 × 250 kW SW, 8 × 500-kW)
• Chita
• Yakutsk
• Vladivostok (1000 kW carrier power?)
• Komsomolsk-on-Amur
• Petropavlovsk-Magadan (1000 kW carrier power?)

The transmission network is partially documented here: http://www.tdp.info/rus.html

Also there are DRM transmissions on 6 languages.