A huge transmitter that has been linked to a secret workplace will equal to the ground – SME
The area with more than 170-meter poles is an economic burden.
Uzovska Panica. A huge transmitter in the cadastre of Uzovska Panic in the district of Rimavská Sobota will soon commemorate only photographs.
Twelve poles, of which the highest measured more than 170-meters, as well as three short-winged directional antennas and one mast of the Med Provincial Antenna should be sent for good by July this year. Removal of debris and landscaping should be completed in October.
The design of the dominant objects, which in the times of the former regime, also served as the strongest Location of the Free Europe radio station destroyed by controlled safe detonation.
Unnecessary burden and goal of adrenaline enthusiasts
Marek Marcinov, marketing manager of Towercom, a radio and television broadcasting for TASR, said that infrastructure from the mid -20th century, providing broadcasting for the world, has been unused since 2022, due to the deployment of more modern technologies.
« The analysis has shown that the object of such dimensions can be considered as an unnecessary economic burden for society, » Marcinov said.
He also pointed out that the high poles were searched for, despite the ban on entering the building, adrenaline enthusiasts. Climbing on structures was gambling with health and life.
What they will use after the demolition of the masts is not yet known. Marcinov said that other visions are not concretized in this respect.
Technical unique
The transmitter near Rimavská Sobota began to be built in 1952. Four years later, it was triggered into trial operation.
« We can consider it a technical unique. Short -wing broadcasting from Rimavská Sobota was for the whole world. Two transmitters were covered by the Atlantic coast of South America, territory in the US and Canada, part of Australia, part of Australia, IranIndia and, of course, the whole of Europe, ”he explained to TASR Marcinov.
He added that in the 1980s the area underwent a fundamental renewal.
They had to keep silent about what they are doing for years
In the history of the broadcaster, however, the period, when its task was also the cancellation of the broadcasting of the radio station Free Europe, a large enemy of the communist regime.
He went to look for sapphires and found another record gem. In the whole Carpathians have not yet found larger Read
He was managed from the workplace at the nearby settlement of Teška, which was secret from the public. It was led to an inconspicuous journey, employees to work and work were carried by members of the National Security Corps. They had to keep silent about what they are doing. If they came out with the truth, they threatened a ten -year stay behind bars.
This period still at the end of 2011 for We Novohrad He approached Mikuláš Lindis from Rimavská Sobota, who started working there as a 23-year-old. Previously, however, he had to sign an agreement on confidentiality. « I pledged to keep silent for the next ten years after they canceled the jammer, » he said.
Between totalitarianism and free world
On the margo of Radio Free Europe, he said that in the Communist media they called it a radio radio. The comrades did not want to spread among people.
« Well, this was the time. On the one hand, totalitarianism, on the other, a democratic and free world. Many people wanted to listen to free Europe. They tried to tune it, but mostly this station was disturbed. Some knew that near Rimavská Sobota was a bus.
He added that he actually worked for Moscow, while the orders came to Teška from Prague.
« I worked for national security as a civilian employee. Our task was to arrange for messages from the free world to the Soviet Union. We had a device that produced electric disturbing signals.
Project of long -distance defense
Lindis pointed out that he had the opportunity to listen to free Europe news and the time when the Eastern Bloc of Socialist countries resisted the West’s political ideology, he was confused. They were not subject to any censorship.
« The East had to defend the system he built. The disturbance of broadcasting for the Soviet Union was then called a long -distance defense. The name Lokoobran was called for the Czechs, » said Rimavskosoboťan years ago, who twisted the so -called long -distance defense for 24 years.
« One day the call came to turn off all the jammers. It was 18 December 1988. After 36 years of the theater, » he concluded.
