Radio Antena Satelor

Broadcast area	Romania
Frequency	153 kHz LW
Programming
Format	Rural issues
Affiliations	EBU-UER
Ownership
Owner	Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company
Sister stations	RRA, RRC, R3N, RRM, RRI
History
First air date	25 December 1991 (regional coverage) 1 March 2006 (national coverage)
Links
Webcast	http://89.238.227.6:8042/listen.pls
Website	http://www.antenasatelor.ro/

Radio Antena Satelor (lit.: Radio Villages' Antenna) is the fifth state-owned radio station in Romania. It broadcasts seven days a week, 24 hours a day.

Radio Antena Satelor was heard for the first time regionally on December 25, 1991, with 5 hours of broadcast per day and coverage only in Bucharest, Dâmbovița and Argeș, following which on March 1, 2006, it reached its national position. Radio Antena Satelor includes programs and programs for the public in rural areas, debating the real problems of the typical Romanian village.

Frequencies

Longwave:

• Bod  – 153 kHz, it covers Romania and Republic of Moldova.^[1] It partially covers some areas of Ukraine, Bulgaria, Serbia and Hungary. It may not be excluded to be received farther, in countries like: Georgia, Turkey, Denmark (Aarhus), the eastern region of Slovakia and the south-western part of European Russia. During the hours of darkness the sky wave signal can reach as far as Western Europe on a regular basis, now that other European transmitters on 153 kHz (that were operated by Deutschlandfunk and NRK) have ceased broadcasting. More sporadically, DX reception using specialist receivers and external antennas has been observed in Northeastern parts of North America and South America, most of the Middle East and parts of the Far East (Southeast Asia, Japan and China). Transmitter power output (TPO) 200 kW.

Medium-wave:

• Urziceni  – 531 kHz, transmitter power output (TPO) 14 kW
• Herastrau/Bucharest  – 603 kHz, transmitter power output (TPO) 400 kW
• Voinesti  – 630 kHz, transmitter power output (TPO) 400 kW
• Valu lui Traian  – 1314 kHz, transmitter power output (TPO) 50 kW
• Timișoara  – 1314 kHz, transmitter power output (TPO) 30 kW

FM:

• Comanesti  – 89.0 MHz, effective radiated power (ERP) 1 kW
• Sulina  – 103.2 MHz, effective radiated power (ERP) 1 kW
• Zalau  – 106.9 MHz, effective radiated power (ERP) 0.050 kW ^[2]

DAB-T:

• Bucharest  – channel 12A, frequency 223.936 MHz, vertical polarisation.^[3]