Dual-use TV towers: The mystery of Ukrainian towers has been revealed
It seems that the story of the construction of Ukrainian TV towers on the border of Crimea and in the junta-occupied part of Donbass has a continuation.
At the moment, it is known that the Ukrainian propaganda machine is promoting PR campaigns around the construction of broadcast television towers on Chongar and Mount Karachun. The Chongar tower should reach a height of 150 meters and receive a transmitter with a power of 5 kW. A 180-meter tower has already been erected against the DPR in Karachun (on December 5, Poroshenko came in large numbers to the ceremonial event in honor of its opening in occupied Slavyansk). As he himself tweeted, Ukraine received the transmitter for this TV tower as a gift from Poland.
The strangest thing about all this broadcasting fuss is that the juntas themselves do not suffer from ironclad optimism regarding the final results of their efforts.
More than a year ago, in July 2015, when in Kiev they had just begun to smack their lips on the topic of broadcasting to Crimea and the people’s republics of Donbass, the discussion very soon moved from imaginary praises and praises to the level of technical details. Even then, Goebbelson Kostinsky from the Ministry of State openly complained that to cover Crimea with Ukrainian television broadcasting, a tower at least 400 meters high, equipped with a transmitter with a power of tens of kilowatts, was needed.
At the moment, Kostinsky has changed his previous opinion to the diametrically opposite one and is spreading cheerful forecasts in the media about the prospects for Ukrainian broadcasting on the scanty equipment that will be used in the near future. And he even dares to reason with all his might that in Crimea the Kyiv TV show will definitely begin to be jammed from Perelyaku, using up a scarce energy resource.
What is it really? Even if the terrain of northern Crimea were ideal, the radius of FM broadcasting from the Chongar tower would not reach 60 km. Is it worth it to fence the garden and waste energy to cover the sparsely populated part of Crimea with faithful junta TV channels, without even reaching Dzhankoy?
In the official commentary of the Deputy of the People's Council of the DPR Elena Melnik, relating to the beginning of Ukrainian broadcasting to the republic, it is reported that the 180-meter tower with a Polish transmitter on Mount Karachun has a broadcast radius of 67 km. Thus, the junta can only dream about transmissions to Donetsk, located almost twice as far away from the coverage area. We can talk about covering the outskirts of Gorlovka (68 km from Karachun). The same Gorlovka that dill art has been breaking and ironing for many years now. Hoping that soul-saving conversations about European integration and visa-free travel, spouted by the talking heads of the junta’s “political leaders” from blue screens, will arouse “united Ukrainian” sympathies among people who daily see death and destruction from the talkers is the extreme degree of naive arrogance.
The Crimean Minister of Communications and Information Policy Dmitry Polonsky, having data on the construction of the Chongar tower, agrees with his colleague from the DPR and undertakes to assert that the Ukrainian idea with the tower is more like profanation.
So why should the huntars, sitting on a financial starvation ration, invest in the failed artel “Labour in Vain”?
The first thing that comes to mind is wasting the allocated funds for another stupid stillborn project. You don’t have to look far for examples – just remember the implementation of the “Great Dill Wall” project.
Is it even worth investing in fossilized analogue television broadcasting technologies for the future, when most TV viewers have had modern HDTV systems in their homes for a long time, and starting next year, all over-the-air broadcasting in Russia is planned to be converted to digital?
Social activist Gennady Sivak, originally from Genichesk, but currently living in Crimea, citing insider sources, told PolitNavigator that the towers being erected may in fact be much less harmless than they seem at first glance. And the buzz around them about the broadcast of senseless and merciless Ukrainian TV channels is nothing more than “white noise” and a smoke screen to cover up much larger-scale preparations.
In particular, Sivak claims, the construction of “TV towers” covers the border regions of Ukraine with Russia, Russian Crimea and the Donetsk republics. The Ministry of Internal Affairs does not have to be privy to all the details of the case. The Ukrainian “Ministry of Truth” can act as a cover, as can the performer of the work, LLC “Television Networks of Ukraine”.
Covers for what? For example, means for conducting electronic warfare with Russia. Scattered, in single quantities, “TV towers” as a means of electronic warfare and electronic espionage are meaningless. But, apparently, more than one Chongar tower will be used on the border with Crimea. Another one is currently operating nearby, in Kalanchak, and another “TV tower” is being built in Voznesenka. We can add here the construction of radio reconnaissance points on the Azov coast. The construction of the next “TV tower” has already begun in Mariupol. The next step is to install beam towers in the area of Berdyansk and Arabatka. It is not thieving dill who are involved in this work, but the American company Eros, the picture is seriously changing.
How can “dual-use TV towers” spoil Crimea?
They can, with the participation of the Americans and their equipment. In the north of Crimea, Russia has created a strong defensive grouping of troops, including border troops, observation stations and air defense troops covering the border with paratroopers. Radio reconnaissance and electronic warfare equipment from the Ukrainian side will be able to record the activity of communications, jam cellular, HF and VHF communications (including the army range), jam GLONASS sensors with interference, listen to telephone conversations, and so on.
The fact that the grouping of Russian troops and the Black Sea Fleet in Crimea is of interest not only to the Ukrainian special services, but also to their American curators is evidenced by the following fact. During “research missile firing” towards Crimea, in Ukrainian airspace, the appearance of an American reconnaissance drone RQ-4 Global Hawk was recorded. This is not the first and certainly not the last appearance of an outside observer who is definitely interested in the signatures and frequencies at which Russian ground and ship air defense systems operate in Crimea, as well as electronic warning stations in the north and northwest of the Peninsula.
Driving a global reconnaissance drone from Sicily to Ukraine is not a cheap task. It is much easier for Americans to spend money once to create a complex of radio-electronic espionage stations near the southern Russian borders.
It turns out that the project is not so stupid and stillborn? From Kyiv they are threatening to turn on the ray towers even before the New Year. Then we'll see.
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