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A list of VLF-transmitters and LF-transmitters, which work or worked on frequencies below 100 kHz.
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List of VLF transmissions
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Name / Call sign | Location | Frequency | Coordinates | Remarks |
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Trinidad - Omega Station B | Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago | 12.0 kHz | 10.699738°N 61.638386°W / 10.699738; -61.638386 | valley span antenna dismantled, station replaced by the Paynesville Liberia Station in 1976 |
Paynesville - Omega Station B | Paynesville, Liberia | 12.0 kHz | 6.305442°N 10.662068°W / 6.305442; -10.662068 | 1,368-foot (417 m) tower demolished in 2011 |
Kaneohe - Omega Station C | Haiku Valley, Hawaii, USA | 11.8 kHz | 21.404811°N 157.830834°W / 21.404811; -157.830834 | 5,000-foot (1,500 m) valley span antenna, decommissioned in 1997. Antenna dismantled, deteriorating transmitter building and Haiku Stairs remain |
Bratland - Omega Station A (LEA) | Brattland, Norway | 12.1 kHz | 66.419323°N 13.129950°E / 66.419323; 13.129950 | 11,500-foot (3,500 m) valley span antenna over salt water. dismantled in 2002. Building and helix house remains |
Plaine Chabrier - Omega Station E | Saint-Paul, Reunion Island | 12.3 kHz | 20.974153°S 55.289973°E / -20.974153; 55.289973 | 1,404-foot (428 m) tower demolished in 1999 |
Golfo Nuevo - Omega Station F | Golfo Nuevo, Chubut, Argentina | 12.9 kHz | 43.053524°S 65.190763°W / -43.053524; -65.190763 | 1,201-foot (366 m) tower demolished in 1998 |
Woodside - Omega Station G (VL3DEF) | Woodside, Victoria, Australia | 13.0 kHz, 18.6 kHz | 38.481268°S 146.935326°E / -38.481268; 146.935326 | 1,417-foot (432 m) foot tower demolished in 2015 |
Shushi-Wan - Omega Station H | Tsushima Island, Japan | 12.8 kHz | 34.614763°N 129.453830°E / 34.614763; 129.453830 | 1,276-foot (389 m) foot tower dismantled in 1998 |
GBZ Criggion | Criggion, Wales, UK | 15.2 kHz | 52.72246°N 3.06295°W / 52.72246; -3.06295 | towers and antenna demolished in 2003. Derelict transmitter building remains |
Kahuku Marconi Transmitter | Kahuku, Oahu, Hawaii, USA | 16.1 kHz | 21.7062°N 157.9731°W / 21.7062; -157.9731 | shut down in 1939, deteriorated transmitter building and support buildings remain |
Coltano transmitting station | Coltano, Italy | 43.649841°N 10.408634°E / 43.649841; 10.408634 | 4 masts with a height of 250 metres, destroyed at the end of World War II | |
Waunfawr Marconi Transmitter | Waunfawr, Wales, UK | 21.2 kHz | 53.1239°N 4.1935°W / 53.1239; -4.1935 | Closed in 1938, only the transmitter building remains |
Radio Kootwijk | Apeldoorn, Netherlands | 24 kHz | 52.173414°N 5.818857°E / 52.173414; 5.818857 | last mast demolished in 1980, iconic transmitter building remains |
Table Head Marconi Transmitter | Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada | 37.5 kHz | 46.21118°N 59.9525°W / 46.21118; -59.9525 | dismantled and moved to Marconi Towers, Nova Scotia in 1904 |
Marconi Towers Transmitter | Marconi Towers, Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada | 37.5 kHz | 46.1547273°N 59.9455246°W / 46.1547273; -59.9455246 | closed and sold in 1946. Manager's house and ruins remain. |
Marion Marconi Transmitter | Marion, Massachusetts, USA | 25.8 kHz | 41.7131401°N 70.7748406°W / 41.7131401; -70.7748406 | shut down in 1957, towers demolished in 1960. Transmitter and support buildings remain |
New Brunswick Marconi Transmitter | New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA | 21.8 kHz | 40.51529°N 74.48895°W / 40.51529; -74.48895 | shut down in 1948, demolished in 1953. Only the station cottage remains |
Bolinas Marconi Transmitter | Bolinas, California. USA | 19.2 kHz | 37.913°N 122.72825°W / 37.913; -122.72825 | shut down in 1946. Transmitter building, MF and HF transmitters and one cottage remain |
RCA Radio Central | Rocky Point, New York, USA | 18.3 kHz | 40.92379°N 72.9356°W / 40.92379; -72.9356 | last VLF tower demolished in 1977 |
NSS Annapolis | Annapolis, Maryland, USA | 21.4 kHz | 38.977778°N 76.453333°W / 38.977778; -76.453333 | shut down in 1996, 1,200-foot (370 m) tower demolished in 1999, three 600-foot (180 m) towers remain |
Forestport Tower | Forestport, New York, USA | 43.44485337°N 75.0861464°W / 43.44485337; -75.0861464 | 1,205-foot (367 m) tower demolished in 1998 | |
Tuckerton Transmitter | Tuckerton, New Jersey, USA | 22.1 kHz | 39.558495°N 74.370570°W / 39.558495; -74.370570 | shut down 1948, 820-foot (250 m) tower demolished 1955, transmitter building remains |
Silver Creek Communications Annex | Silver Creek, Nebraska, USA | 41.3461996°N 97.72176109°W / 41.3461996; -97.72176109 | 1,226-foot (374 m) tower demolished in 1995. Building remains. | |
Hawes Radio Relay Facility | Hinkley, California, USA | 34.9174009°N 117.377046654°W / 34.9174009; -117.377046654 | 1,226-foot (374 m) tower and all buildings demolished in 1986 | |
GBR | Rugby, UK | 16.0 kHz 60 kHz | 52.367290°N 1.188524°W / 52.367290; -1.188524 | shut-down in 2003, demolished in 2007 |
JAP | Yosami, Kariya, Aichi, Japan | 17.442 kHz[8] | 34.971474°N 137.017018°E / 34.971474; 137.017018 | 250m masts, demolished |
NBA Summit Naval Radio Station[9] | Summit, Balboa, Canal Zone, Panama | 18.6 kHz, 24.0 kHz[10] | 9.0699425°N 79.6333477°W / 9.0699425; -79.6333477 | megawatt naval VLF station, demolished |
NPO Sangley Point Naval Radio Station | Cavite, Philippines | 21.5 kHz | 14.495°N 120.908°E / 14.495; 120.908 | Three 600-foot (180 m) VLF towers demolished after World War II |
Malabar Radio Station | Malabar, Indonesia | 7.116281°S 107.606183°E / -7.116281; 107.606183 | valley span-antenna, demolished | |
NPM | Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, USA | 26.1 kHz | 21.35°N 157.964°W / 21.35; -157.964 | Three 600-foot (180 m) towers dismantled in 1936. Transmitters moved to Lualualei in 1936 |
NPL Chollas Heights | San Diego, California, USA | 30.6 kHz | 32.74063°N 117.0643°W / 32.74063; -117.0643 | ceased operations in 1992, towers demolished 1995, Transmitter building remains |
Sayville Telefunken Wireless Station | Sayville, New York, USA | 38.4 kHz | 40.7437°N 73.1033°W / 40.7437; -73.1033 | 477-foot (145 m) tower demolished. massive concrete guy wire anchors remain. |
Karlsborg transmitter | Karlsborg, Sweden | 49.55 kHz | 58.4870111°N 14.4691833°E / 58.4870111; 14.4691833 | Two 689-foot (210 m) masts demolished in 2001 |
NAA Arlington | Arlington, Virginia, USA | 50.0 kHz, etc | 38.867820°N 77.0791°W / 38.867820; -77.0791 | towers removed in 1941, NAA buildings remain. |
RKS Liblice 1 (OMA) | Liblice, Czech | 50.0 kHz | 50.072249°N 14.880810°E / 50.072249; 14.880810 | demolished in 2004 |
OLB5 | Poděbrady, Czech | 50.0 kHz | 50.137793°N 15.144331°E / 50.137793; 15.144331 | shutdown in 1995 |
FTA50 | Saint-André-de-Corcy, France | 50.75 kHz | 45.928825°N 4.935737°E / 45.928825; 4.935737 | demolished |
Hürup Navy Transmitter | Hürup, Germany | 53 kHz 68,9 kHz | 54.760504°N 9.549544°E / 54.760504; 9.549544 | 3 masts, each 160 metres tall, shut-down in 2002 |
Neuharlingersiel Navy Transmitter | Neuharlingersiel, Germany | 53 kHz | 53.677881°N 7.612077°E / 53.677881; 7.612077 | 3 masts, two 164 metres tall and one 171 metres tall, since 2004 no VLF/LF-transmissions |
Clifden Marconi Transmitter | Derrigimlagh, Clifden, Ireland | 54.5 kHz | 53.4508506°N 10.0430238°W / 53.4508506; -10.0430238 | demolished following an attack by Irish republican forces in July 1922. Ruins remain |
Bad Deutsch-Altenburg transmitter | Bad Deutsch-Altenburg, Austria | 73.85 kHz | 48.106176°N 16.920359°E / 48.106176; 16.920359 | Three 100 metres tall masts, demolished in the 1980s |
HBG | Prangins, Switzerland | 75.0 kHz | 46.408422°N 6.252680°E / 46.408422; 6.252680 | Demolished 2012 |
Székesfehérvár transmitter | Székesfehérvár, Hungary | 77.82 kHz | 47.152844°N 18.395201°E / 47.152844; 18.395201 | Two 152 metres masts demolished in 2009 |
Münchenbuchsee transmitter | Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland | 82.05 kHz | 47.014617°N 7.443483°E / 47.014617; 7.443483 | One 125 metres and two 92 metres towers demolished in 1983 |
Dübendorf transmitter | Dübendorf, Switzerland | 47.408820°N 8.631778°E / 47.408820; 8.631778 | 122 metres tall mast, demolished | |
Globecom Tower (XPH) | Thule, Greenland | 68.9 kHz | 76.553133°N 68.5507134°W / 76.553133; -68.5507134 | 1,241-foot (378 m) tower was the tallest structure outside the USA in 1954. Demolished in 1992 |
Radom longwave transmitter (SOA, SNA) | Radom - Wacyn, Poland | 55.75, 58.25, 62.45, 64.9, 76.35, 80.5, 81.35 kHz | 51.409332°N 21.117214°E / 51.409332; 21.117214 | shut-down, one mast today used for FM-/TV-broadcasting, the others demolished |
Transatlantycka Radiotelegraficzna Centrala Nadawcza (AXO, AXL) | Babice, Warsaw, Poland | 14.29, 16.4, 17.7, 18.65 kHz | 52.266412°N 20.879892°E / 52.266412; 20.879892 | Alexanderson alternator, destroyed on January 16, 1945 by the army of Nazi Germany[11][12] |
Eilvese | Eilvese, Germany | 20, 30, 96 kHz | 52.546389°N 9.414722°E / 52.546389; 9.414722 | 820-foot (250 m) tower demolished in 1931 |
Königs Wusterhausen | Königs Wusterhausen, Germany | 69.7 kHz | 52.304277°N 13.611326°E / 52.304277; 13.611326 | demolished |
Kamina Funkstation | Kamina, Atakpamé, Togo | 7.933333°N 0.85°E / 7.933333; 0.85 | destroyed | |
Herzogstand | Herzogstand, Germany | 47.628889°N 11.322222°E / 47.628889; 11.322222 | experimental station, valley-span antenna, demolished | |
Goliath | Kalbe, Germany | 16.55 kHz | 52.669218°N 11.421890°E / 52.669218; 11.421890 | removed by Russian troops, reinstalled in Russia as RJH90 |
Nauen Transmitter Station | Nauen, Germany | 52.647959°N 12.908292°E / 52.647959; 12.908292 | 872-foot (266 m) tower demolished and all equipment removed by Soviet Army in 1946, transmitter building remains | |
SRC[13] | Ruda, Sweden | 44.2, 40.0 kHz | 57.120331°N 16.153111°E / 57.120331; 16.153111 | 659 foot, 201-metre tall mast, demolished 2020 |
Lafayette Radio Station | Marcheprime, France | 44.708611°N 0.813611°W / 44.708611; -0.813611 | destroyed by retreating German troops in 1944 | |
Basse-Lande transmitter | Brains, France | 47.170749°N 1.694947°W / 47.170749; -1.694947 | destroyed |
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