Moscow Radio Center 13 is a transmission facility near Balashikha, approximately 3.5 km east of the ringbelt motorway of Moscow. Moscow Radio Centre 13 served in the Cold War era as jammer to block transmissions of western shortwave radio programs.
Although the radio wave jammer activities ceased in the middle of the 1980s, some occasional continuing of the jammer use occurred on March 14, 1989 to block incoming transmissions to the Lithuanian minority in Moscow area.
In later years, a tall, 176m freestanding lattice tower for transmissions was built in OIRT-band. In 2005, a new mast for FM-broadcasting was built by the Russian company Stako. This mast, called Balashikha Transmission Mast', has a triangular cross-section which is 3.6m in width. The construction originally planned for the mast to reach a height of 460m and contain six floors, however the mast has only reached a height of 300m and is constructed of 4 levels.
In the meantime, shortwave transmission was ceased at Moscow Radio Center 13. The shortwave broadcasting masts were dismantled between 2002 and 2007.
The mast was extended to 427 meters in 2014.
Standard FM-Band
NameLanguagesFrequencyWebsiteHeight of AntennaEffective Radiated PowerLike FMRussian87.9MHz384m10kWHumour FMRussian88.7MHzhttp://www.veseloeradio.ru/384m10kWKalina is redRussian89.5MHz414m10kWRadio RecordRussian89.9MHz384m10kWAvtoRadioRussian90.8MHzhttp://www.avtoradio.ru/414m20kWRelax FMRussian90.8MHz384m8kWSays MoscowRussian92MHz384m5kWRadio DachaRussian92.4MHz354m10kWRadio CarnavalRussian92.8MHzhttp://radiokarnaval.ru/414m5kWStudio 21Russian93.2MHzhttp://sportfm.ru/384m5kWVostok FMRussian94.0MHz414m5kWThe first sports radioRussian94.4MHz384m5kWTaxi FMRussian96.4MHz414m5kWChildren's RadioRussian96.8MHz384m5kWRadio KPRussian97.2 MHzhttp://radiokp.ru/ 414 m10 kWRadio RomantikaRussian98.8MHz384m10kWRussian hitRussian99.6MHz10kWHeat FMRussian100.5MHz354m10kWComedy radioRussian102.5MHz414m10kWRadio ChansonRussian103MHzhttp://www.chanson.ru/384m10kWEnergy (NRJ)Russian104.2MHzhttps://www.energyfm.ru/414m15kWLove radioRussian106.6MHzhttps://www.loveradio.ru/384m10kWKiss FMRussian107MHz414m5kWHit FMRussian107.4MHz384m5kWMilitia WaveRussian107.8MHz414m5kW
See also Russian 460 meter radio mast List of Russian-language radio stations
References
External links http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b41791,69873 https://web.archive.org/web/20120209175334/http://www.tvtower.ru/311_RCMO/rc13.shtml
Site on Google Maps: Mast was not built, when picture was mase, but smaller tower clearly visible