one more Unesco site

Have a look, one more of Unesco world heritage spots where we have visited. Looked like totally  boring place, but check the link. Its actually super interesting!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimeton_VLF_transmitter

The info center in the place itself was closed since its off-season, but the boss of the radio center was there. He let us in to the building where the huge ancient radio transmitter was, and for one hour he told us stories about the last in the world and still running and totally MECHANICAL (non-electrical) radiotransmitter. Reeeeeeally cool!

This Grimeton place we saw on our way from Göteborg to Denmark. I think the best thing about it was that the man who told us about the whole machinery was so into it, transmitting his excitement and awe to us both. In the same afternoon they were having some international congress guests from Stockholm and they were supposed to turn the machine on. The man invited us to stay, but unfortunately we had to continue our way south and towards Helsingborg to catch the ferry to Denmark.

This is one of the six masts (which should be counted as one mast) which are 130m high, and the horizontal part at the top of the mast is 30m long. Quite biiiiig =)

The line of the masts. The line that these make is on 90degree angle facing exactly Long Island in New York where they had more than five of these transmitter complexes. Those one in New York were taken down in the 1960s

Hummm.... This is... Something related to radio transmitting in the old times =)

These are part of the more new transmitter built in 60s

The machine in the middle is the one which sends the actual signal to the masts

The tools that they still use for repairing and tuning the machine. The biggest one was maybe 1m tall and  must weigh ten kilos