Description Kaliakra transmitter was built as mediumwave relay of Radio Moscow for Southeast Europe. Beginning construction in 1988, after the collapse of communistic regimes in Eastern Europes, construction work on it was stopped. At this point of time, 9 of the 10 masts were already built,
one was on-hold.
As the broadcasting company of Bulgaria had no requirement for a further large mediumwave transmitter, the facility remained unused. In 2001 it was experimentally used as longwave broadcasting station instead of Vakarel transmitter. In 2005 on two masts of the facility antennas for FM-broadcasting were installed.
There are two types of masts on the facility, 8 135 metres tall masts and 2 169 metres tall masts.
All masts are grounded and equipped with cage antennas, which are called ARRT-antenna (cyrillic: APPT, ARRT means translated "antenna with regulatable current distribution", these antennas have a skywave surpression diagram).
The larger masts form a directional antenna with low beam bundling, while the 8 masts form an antenna with high bundling diagram.
The two larger masts are completed, while from the 8 masts, 7 are topped out, 1 is on-hold and only 5 carry the complete antenna system. The building for housing the transmitters remained a row building.
Kaliakra transmitter is situated on a flat high above the steep coast near Cape Kaliakra a penninsula in the Black Sea.
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