DECCA station Stadtkyll

Decaying transmitter building in 2007

Basic data

Place:

Stadtkyll

Country:

Rhineland-Palatinate

Country:

Germany

Altitude :

537 m above sea level NHN

Coordinates: 50 ° 21 '50.4 " N , 6 ° 32' 2.4" E

Use:

Radio navigation

Demolition :

1992

Mast data

Construction time :

1952

Building material :

steel

Operating time:

1952-1992

Total height :

100.01 m

Data on the transmission system

Waveband :

LW transmitter

Position map

DECCA station Stadtkyll

DECCA chain 3F

The DECCA station Stadtkyll was the so-called purple station (transmission frequency: 70.6167 kHz) of the only purely German DECCA chain 3F, which consisted of the transmitter Zeven , the transmitter Brilon-Madfeld and the transmitter Coburg-Lautertal . The German DECCA chain was set up in 1952 to make radio navigation over the GDR easier for allied pilots on the air corridors to West Berlin , as many pilots had lost their bearings during the Berlin blockade .

The DECCA transmitter Stadtkyll , which was located north of Stadtkyll on the Stadtkyller Heide, used a 100.01 meter high, self-radiating transmission mast, insulated from earth, as a transmitting antenna.

The German DECCA chain and the DECCA station Stadtkyll became superfluous after German reunification and on March 31, 1992 the German DECCA chain and the DECCA station Stadtkyll were switched off. The station's transmitter mast was then canceled. Today only several decaying buildings remind of the former DECCA transmitter in Stadtkyll.

Web links

DECCA station Stadtkyll. In: Structurae
Short report with a picture of the transmitter mast