(AI translated, from March 2022)
You go to the countryside for a bit, and when you come back home, you notice changes in the landscape. No wonder those suspicious old men were hanging around. Why on a Saturday?
One of the remaining antennas of the “Stalin’s organ” or jamming station (Object No. 603) is gone. It had been unused for a while because mobile phone technologies had changed, and such an expensive piece of land in the “rich” area of Kaunas was definitely tempting for various business people. Although the plots of land were “distributed to deserving people” many years ago, I think a mistake was made here. Of course, the “honorable people” sold the land, and now that the pole is gone, they will soon build a small residential area.
It would have been better to establish a park here—especially since beautiful oaks with low and wide branches remained, as the area had been free from human activity for many years. There was a pond, ducks lived there, and owls nested in the trees… The plot was unique because it didn’t need to be returned to anyone, neither to descendants nor to holy Jewish bones. Just a piece of state land. Unfortunately, the business was done long ago.
Some parts were unscrewed, some had to be cut with a grinder, and some were cut with an autogen. First, they removed all the bolts and replaced them with new ones. Then somehow they technically brought it down. Unfortunately, I didn’t see it.
They laid the pole down “whole.” The first one was dismantled in two stages. There was probably free space.
There are still two left. I don’t know if the TV pole will be demolished, but the other one will definitely be torn down. Because instead of this piece of nature, several multi-story buildings and, of course, many car parking spaces will be built.
You can read more about the station only in the internet archive… Web Archive Link
The jamming station consisted of three towers with antennas between them (ВГДШ). Sometimes the antenna wires would break and spark seriously. Then even Mayak would stop playing due to the pulses. The electric field was strong; a simple voltmeter would show a voltage between the segments of the iron fence. My first electronics experiments (building radio receivers) always ended in failure because the direct amplification radio receiver would only pick up the nearby Mayak broadcast. Once I even heard Mayak through an unplugged speaker. This only proves that 5G doesn’t scare me.
A more interesting element was the feeder, which was about 2 or 3 meters high—several wires on about 30 cm long insulators. One insulator should still be hanging in my yard under the ivy. Somehow, I instinctively stayed away from it when crawling around that forbidden area.
P.S. The size of the bolt, compared to size of my small dog.
