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You requested more control rooms, and I am happy to oblige! This is the broadcast/control room in Motala radio broadcast station! (digitaltmuseum.se)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/56534541

This was one of the main public radio broadcast stations in Sweden, if you listen to famous old radio broadcasts from Sweden, it is very likely that they will sign on with the call sign Stockholm-Motala.

The station was constructed in 1927, closed in 1962, and is today a museum.

The station broadcast 30 kW at 227 kHz in the start of operations, in 1935 the output was upgraded to 150 kW to compete with other broadcasts on the band.

The station changed the broadcast frequency several times in it's life:

  • 1927: 227 kHz
  • 1929: 222,5 kHz
  • 1934: 216 kHz (never used due to the war)
  • 1950: 191 kHz

There is another famous Swedish radio station which you may confuse with this, Grimeton, a radio station in the south west of Sweden, that station is amazing, it is a UNESCO world heritage site, and I will post photos about that later, but this post is all about Motala radio broadcast station.

This photo was taken in 1930 and is in the public domain.

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