50-KV BROADCASTING STATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04864A000100090011-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: February 18, 1949
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL INT L IG N ENCY REPORT NO.
INFORM ORT
COUNTRY Denmark
50-Kw. Broadcasting Station
PLACE
ACQUIRED Washington, D.C.
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ACQUIRED BY SOURCE October 1948. -February 1949
DATE OF INFORMATION October 1948 - February 1949
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SOURCE Monitoring and U.S. Information Service.
DATE DISTR. I February 1949
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
After several months of test transmissions, the new Danish international broad-
casting station was officially inaugurated 1 October 1948. It is located at gersted-
vester on the island of Zealand about fifteen kilometers west of Copenhagen, Thar
is one short-wave transmitter capable of operating on any frequency between 6 and 21
megacycles with a power output of 50 kilowatts to a choice of directional antennas;
(1) Oriented 301? for North America and Greenland.
(2) Oriented 236? for South America.
(3) Oriented 56? for Australia and the Par last.
Beaming* were selected to provide optimum reception to Danes abroad, who"com
prise the present intended audience. Antenna #1 is used between the hours 00;00 and
05:30 GMT daily with the transmitter on 9520 kilocycle.. Antenna #2 is not yet in
service. Antenna #3 was placed in service on 1 February 1949 with the transmitter
on 15165 kilocycles, and is used Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at lO;O0 to
11;00 GMT.
Frequency changes can be accomplished in less than three minutes by an automatic
mechanism with push-button control. To effect this the transmitter construction was
considerably elaborated with the resultant equipment reportedly approximating three
separate transmitters. Construction was by the Danish firm, Standard Electric, Inc.,
in cooperation with its sister organization in Italy which had experience in build-
ing similar transmitters for the Italian broadcasting system.
Full technical details and diagrams have been supplied to the U.S. Department
of State (TRO) and the Federal Communications Commission as enclosures to the ran
classified dispatch #196 dated 5 November 1948 from the American Embassy in Copenhagen.
CLASSIFICATION
ARMY
Approved For Release 1999/09/01: CIA-RDP78-04864A000100090011-9