Telecommunication tower Heidelberg

The Heidelberg Telecommunications Tower is a 102-meter (until January 1995: 76-meter) high telecommunications tower owned by Deutsche Telekom and built in 1958 on the Königstuhl in Heidelberg . It serves to distribute radio stations and radio relay . The analog TV channels were discontinued on May 17, 2006 in favor of the digital DVB-T bouquet, which is broadcast by the Heidelberg TV tower .

Frequencies and transmitters

Analog radio (FM)

In the case of directed radiation, the main radiation directions are given in degrees in the antenna diagram.

Frequency (MHz)	Channel	RDS PS	RDS PI	Regionalization	ERP (kW)	Antenna pattern round (ND) / directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V)
102.8	Radio rainbow	RAINBOGN	D508 (regional) D308	Mannheim	50	D (250 ° -200 °)	H
106.1	Rainbow two	RGNBGN 2	D30E	Rhine-Neckar	1	D (260 ° -50 °)	H
105.4	bermuda.funk / radioactive	bermuda_ R-ACTIVE_	160B	-	0.05	D (260 ° -50 °)	H

Analog television

Until the switch to DVB-T , the following programs were broadcast in analogue PAL :

channel	Frequency (MHz)	program	ERP (kW)	Transmission diagram round (ND) / directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V)
27	519.25	ZDF	440	ND	H
36	591.25	RTL / RNFplus	1	D.	H
53	727.25	SWR television Baden-Württemberg	500	ND	H

Telecommunication tower Heidelberg in a close-up (April 2013)

With the introduction of DVB-T on May 17, 2006, the broadcasting of all analogue TV channels on the Königstuhl was stopped. The broadcasting of the digital DVB-T bouquets from SWR and ZDF takes place from the neighboring Heidelberg television tower , which is operated by SWR (see also DVB-T Rhein-Neckar ). In the immediate vicinity is also the former telecommunications tower of the US armed forces in Heidelberg , which was returned to the state of Baden-Württemberg in mid-2007. The station RNF is only transmitted via cable ( Unitymedia ) and satellite ( Astra ). RTL has announced that the launch of its DVB-T bouquet with the channels RTL, RTL II, Super RTL and VOX in the Rhine-Neckar area and Stuttgart is being considered. However, there is no certainty in this regard, neither about the location that may then be used, nor whether there will be any private involvement of the RTL Group in Rhein-Neckar, Stuttgart or anywhere else in Baden-Württemberg. The Pro7Sat1 group generally refuses to launch a DVB-T offer in the Rhine-Neckar / Stuttgart area. The infrastructure of the former analogue installations in Stuttgart and Heidelberg would make a quick introduction of the private sector possible, no new television towers would have to be built, no new electricity infrastructure would have to be laid and frequencies are available for at least two new DVB-T transponders in Rhein-Neckar and To offer Stuttgart. In the meantime, RTL has announced that it will withdraw completely from DVB-T at the end of 2014.

Web links

Commons : Telecommunication tower Heidelberg - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland: Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland will not continue program distribution via DVB-T. (No longer available online.) January 16, 2013, archived from the original on July 15, 2013 ; Retrieved July 15, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2