Telecommunication tower Plettenberg

Telecommunication tower Plettenberg Radio transmission point Schömberg Balingen 2
Basic data
Place:	Plettenberg , Dotternhausen
Country:	Baden-Württemberg
Country:	Germany
Altitude :	1000  m above sea level NN
Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 4.1 ″  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 55 ″  E
Use:	Telecommunications tower , broadcasting station
Accessibility:	Transmission tower not open to the public
Owner :	German radio tower
Tower data
Construction time :	1979-1980
Client : German Federal Post Office Building materials : Concrete , reinforced concrete
Operating time:	since 1980
Total height :	158  m
Operation room:	99-108  m
Data on the transmission system
Send types:	Cellular radio , directional radio
Position map
Telecommunication tower Plettenberg

The telecommunications tower Plettenberg (also known as the radio transmission point Schömberg Balingen 2 ) is a 158 m high transmission tower ( type tower made of reinforced concrete, FMT 13) of Deutsche Telekom AG near Dotternhausen in Baden-Württemberg . The type tower stands on the northern tip of the Plettenberg at 1000 m above sea level.

Amateur radio

Plettenberg, North view of Erzingen from

The amateur radio relay DB0HP was located on the Plettenberg telecommunications tower for a long time. In addition to the voice relay, a packet radio digipeater was also set up. In 2007 the relay could no longer be operated and the DB0SKF voice relay near Freudenstadt now covers parts of the Black Forest .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.funk-server.com/relais.htm
2. ↑ DB0HP QRT - DARC local association Titisee A34. Retrieved January 2, 2018 (German). 
3. ↑ End of July: DB0HP makes QRT - Amateurfunk-Oberschwaben eV Accessed on January 2, 2018 (German).