Why the tallest tower on earth collapsed | The Warsaw Radio Mast [Kult America]
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2024
- The Warsaw Radio Mast (Polish: Maszt radiowy w Konstantynowie) was a radio mast located near Gąbin, Poland, and the world's tallest structure at 646.38 metres (2,120.7 ft) from 1974 until its collapse on 8 August 1991.Designed by Jan Polak, and one of the last radio masts built under Communist rule, the mast was conceived for height and ability to broadcast the "propaganda of the successes" to remote areas such as Antarctica. It was the third tallest structure ever built, being surpassed as the tallest by the Burj Khalifa tower in the United Arab Emirates in 2009 and Merdeka 118 tower in Malaysia in 2022. Designed by Jan Polak, its construction started in July 1970, was completed on 18 May 1974, and its transmitter entered regular service on 22 July of that year. The opening of the mast was met with extensive celebration and news coverage by the Polish Film Chronicle.The tower was used by Warsaw Radio-Television (Centrum Radiowo-Telewizyjne) for longwave radio broadcasting on a frequency of AM-LW (long wave) 227 kHz before 1 February 1988 and 225 kHz afterwards.[6] Its base was 115.2 metres (378 ft) above sea level. Because a voltage of 120 kV existed between the mast and ground, it stood on a 2-metre (6.6 ft)-high insulator. It operated as a mast radiator (half-wave radiator), so its height was chosen in order to function as a half-wavelength antenna at its broadcasting frequency. The signals from its 2 MW transmitters could be received across essentially the entire globe. The Warsaw Radio Mast's weight was debated; Polish sources claimed 420 tonnes (930,000 lb).[1] The mast was designed for national pride, mainly because of the height of the mast, which made it the tallest structure in the world, surpassing the KVLY-TV mast in Blanchard, North Dakota. It was also designed to broadcast the "propaganda of the successes." However, an unintended effect of the mast's height was that the "officially non-existent Poles of the east" could tune in to Polish radio broadcasts, including those in remote places such as Antarctica. The mast was so powerful that the waves of Polish Radio Programme 1 were received in areas far from the Polish mainland such as Canada and the United States.
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When we visited Poland in 2018, my son was going to write to the President of Poland and propose that they build "The Great Pole of Poland" I guess he was too late, they already had the great pole of Poland! They should rebuild it, make it bigger!
That would have been a seriously good title of this video!
With internet 5g and satelites it is completly not neccesery. Expensive and not needed.
@@zepter00 5G hardly pass a kilometer, let alone continental radio transmission.
Satellites are vulnerable to debrides, can be easily destroyed with rockets, lasers, space-guns, communication is influenced by weather and good calibration of antenna to them. An earthquake can decalibrate antennas which might not be pleasant for average people.
Radio is by far the cheapest, most mainstream and long ranged way of communication for majority of people.
Hard to beat that in case of a war, solar storm, emergency, etc. .
They were gonna rebuild it in 1995
G'day from Newcastle Australia. I watched this for something to watch, not expecting a train museum to pop up as I am a steam train nut. Thank you for the information that you shared with us.
Hey Ryan - loved this film clip - thank you - well documented and presented - it’s somewhere I have always wanted to visit - from the clip I felt I was there.
Didn’t know you had another channel Ryan. Great video and a great collaboration.
As a Polish-Canadian civil engineer, I really enjoyed this video. Nice to see Poland through a foreigner's lens. Thank you, Sir.
Another really interesting upload, thanks again from Liverpool UK.
Just subbed. Very well presented 👍
Much appreciated!
The remains of the tallest man-made object remind me of the remains of Titanic......
Living in India, in 1970s, I was a fan of polish radio because it was always transmitting classic piano music. The movie ' pianist' reminds me of those days.
This tower was awesome, the only megatall structure in europe.
In the usa, a lot of guyed towers taller than 600 meters are collapse.
Ostankino tower
@@sincm91 yes but is not taller than 600 meters
@@borntoclimb7116 550 is not short lol
@@sincm91 yes right, 550 meters is absolute giantic but the warsaw mast was 646 meters
True we had a tower outside my town that was 1,999ft tall it was impressive how tall it was especially when I was a kid but a hurricane destroyed it because iHeart Media didn’t properly maintain it.💯😴
i am interested on how this tower was build it probably took some guts and balls of steel to climb that thing
Google “gin pole” and “double drum winch”
You’ll know then.
Remember reading the Guinness Book of Records in 1980 trying to comprehend the sheer size of the mast.. Nothing came anywhere near it back then.. Good vid Old Dude !! 👍😜
Really fascinating documentary on the history of this structure
That tower at the end looks like a lookout post/guard tower to me, rather than anything structural to do with anything else
4:43 this would appear to be a dipole antenna. Essentially the same antenna you use for the radio in your house; one wire stretched horizontally and another wire vertically from the horizontal length to the radio to carry the signal. Fascinating to see a dipole antenna on such a scale!
Hi Ryan, I enjoy your videos and your work of the more obscure contemporary history of Poland. Things that are not so well-known, but very interesting nonetheless. In the early 1970s, in Krakow, there were groups of foreign students studying in the various higher schools of education in that city. There was a very well-known Cracovian Artist, who started the międzynarodowy studium Folksongu. I was part of that group at the time. The man who formed this was Adam Macedonski, poet, writer, painter, and activist who a couple of years ago received the order of the White Eagle. You can look him up on both Wikipedia and RUclips. The reason that I am telling you about him and about the group he formed during those communist times, could be an interesting segment for you to do. Adam is still alive and living in Krakow, but he is an elderly man. He is known for many things, however, the Studium he formed in those years is very interesting and hardly documented. It was based on the rights of man and that piosenka złącza świat. This was quite an extraordinary feat for that time in history. He wrote a theme song that we always started our student concerts with that was based on the unity of the world. Our group consisted of students from Brazil, France, Mexico, Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Greece, Afghanistan, North Vietnamese, Sudan, US, Hungary, and of course Poland. Should you have any interest in finding out more about this, you can contact Adam, he still lives in Krakow, and/or myself. Btw, we all performed in our native languages and singing our native songs. Who knew at the time, how extraordinarily international Krakow was!
The world never did.
Nice
Pozdrawiam bardzo serdecznie
Fajny film więcej takich filmów
No i pozdrowienia z Polski
I love when english guys talk about my country
English speaking guy to be correct. Ryan is an American guy. not English.
@@wojstube9359 oh yeah. Thanks for correcting me 😅
@@stachu5049 You're welcome 😁
After watching the movie 'pianist' , I spent a lot of time studying everything about Poland . (from India)
I've worked with polish guys, a little crazy like us aussies😂
This story definitely fills me with sadness. Such an immense feat of engineering and what used to be the single tallest *THING* that humanity has ever constructed, completely wasted by poor management and even poorer repair attempt. Honestly miserable... *But what makes me even sadder is that nobody recorded the collapse!* It would've made for one of the most insane videos ever, could you imagine such a tall construction snapping in half mid-air? Would've produced one of the loudest sounds ever recorded.
That red piece at 5:04 is the base of the radio tower
radio wolna europa.. i remember the broadcasts in the 80ies and my dad listening to them in sweden.. cold war was interesting..
Pogoda and Złote Przeboje still play 1980s stuff tho
Piątkowa lista przebojów w pr.3 to były piękne czasy 😥
I would be surrised if that tower was leaning from age. I think it's liky that tower was still attached when the tower fell and was yanked out of position. the concrete anchors for it are shifted, and I would expect them to be pretty substantial, enough to resist frost under no load. the safety rail at the top is also damaged. i would suspect the cable was anchored to the central post, and it mangled all that on the way down, and subsequently had the cable land on it after it was slack
WHO are You ziomek? You pronounce well in polish, answering questions. Tell me who you are
Interestingly, the Soviet Warsaw Tower collapsed on August 8th, 1991; and the Soviet Union collapsed on December 5th, 1991, four months after the tower collapsed.
"At 16:00 UTC on 8 August 1991 a catastrophic failure led to the collapse of the mast. While replacing frayed guy wires, one of the main cables had to be replaced by two temporary ones." - Google
"On December 25, 1991, the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor. Earlier in the day, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state." - Google
In fact there were some conspiracy theories around that collapse - for example that this mast was destroyed by Soviets, just few days before August coup in Moscow.
dotafon? czy jak to się pisze?
Detefon. Odbiornik kryształkowy. Jedynym nieoczywistym elementem tego odbiornika był detektor (stąd nazwa), który przekształcał fale wielkiej częstotliwości (cz. radiowej czyli setki kiloherców) nadawane przez nadajnik na fale o częstotliwościach akustycznych (czyli w tym wypadku poniżej 4000 herców).
Bardzo ciekawą cechą takiego odbiornika jest to, że emituje on w słuchawkach energię odebraną bezprzewodowo z nadajnika (nie wymaga żadnego zasilania). Druga cecha polega na tym, że najprostsze modele takich odbiorników w zasadzie odbierają wszystkie stacje naraz; w praktyce słychać tam po prostu stację, której nadajnik jest najbliżej. W czasach gdy nadajniki miały niewielkie moce i było ich dość niewiele, całkiem dobrze zdawało to egzamin.
I feel like Ryan is the next Simon Whistler lol.
12:59 is that Warsaw radio mast??
Rcn Koszęcin. Demolished in 2014.
Thanks
It is really a shame, what has become of the Polish Radio nowadays.
I thought this was about a tower.not the history of poland.
Time and gravity ultimately led to the collapse.
Much respect for Poland vs Nazi vs Stalin. Why did the Polish radio go off the air? The string broke. If anyone has a good Bulgarian joke reply below
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It was not only a radio mast actually, it was polish desperated struggle into space
A Polish space elevator
Poland still didn't into space :(
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The way he says “rap” in the beginning 🤡🤡