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| A nostalgic QSL collage from Radio Bulgaria |
DX legend Ivo Ivanov: Even on the Internet, tell about Bulgaria!
Regular shortwave broadcasts of Radio Sofia's program to foreign countries—now Radio Bulgaria—began in April 1936. The number of languages broadcast varied, the frequencies shifted, radio exchanges with other radio stations began and ended, broadcasts to foreign countries were interrupted and then resumed, but the voices of the best translators and announcers continued to reach the most remote corners of the world, telling stories about our small but beautiful Bulgaria.
Since 1974, they have been reaching listeners via the Pydarsko Radio Transmitting Center near Plovdiv, which by the late 1980s was operating with a transmitting power of over 175,000 kilowatts, becoming the most powerful radio transmitting station in Bulgaria. It also featured a PA A30-31 rotating antenna system, unique in our country, with the ability to select the direction of the radiation.
Additional story available at:
https://bnrnews.bg/ru/post/434131/dx-legenda-ivo-ivanov-hotya-i-v-internete-rasskazyvayte-o-bolgarii
(article courtesy R Peason)
