Vatican Radio dismantles MW towers

Vatican Radio has started to dismantle the transmitting station it had on Italian territory at a place called Santa di Maria di Galeria, northwest of Rome. The MF antenna Vatican which used to operate on 1530 kHz consisted of four towers. each surrounded by a cage of six ropes. The design gave a coverage of fade free groundwave propagation for up to 100 km from the Vatican site. Further signs that DRM as a technology is not going to fly.

View of the antenna farm until a few weeks ago.

Building of the medium wave antennas at the Vatican Radio site

Control centre at the transmitting station

Inside the shortwave transmitters of Vatican Radio

Again YouTube comes up with the goods - a radio enthusiast's visit to the transmitter site of Vatican Radio, actually outside the Vatican on Italian soil but owned by the Holy See. Gradually, houses have been built around the site, to a point where there were severe power limitations put on the place.