Telecommunication tower Solingen

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Telecommunication tower Solingen
Image of the object
Telecommunication tower seen from Schlagbaumer Strasse (2013)
Basic data
Place: Solingen - Graefrath
Country : North Rhine-Westphalia
Country: Germany
Altitude : 309  m above sea level NN
Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 17 "  N , 7 ° 4 ′ 38"  E
Use: Telecommunications tower , broadcasting station
Accessibility: Transmission tower not open to the public
Owner : German radio tower
Tower data
Construction time : 1980s
Total height : 101  m
Data on the transmission system
Waveband : FM transmitter
Radio : VHF broadcasting
Send types: Cable headend , cellular radio , directional radio
Position map
Telecommunication tower Solingen (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Telecommunication tower Solingen
Telecommunication tower Solingen
Localization of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany

The telecommunications tower Solingen is a 101 meter high telecommunications tower ( type FMT 9/84) of the German radio tower that is not open to the public . It stands on Schlagbaumer Strasse at an altitude of 309 m above sea level. NN in Solingen - Gräfrath . The telecommunications tower was built from reinforced concrete by the Deutsche Bundespost in the 1980s . The four main platforms were built from steel . The architect of the telecommunications tower was Erwin Heinle and the engineer of the telecommunications tower was Fritz Leonhardt . The two were significantly involved in the planning of all type towers. The telecommunications tower is the second tallest structure in Solingen after the Müngsten Bridge and has four platforms, three of which are antenna platforms on which several small antennas , transmitters and parabolic antennas are attached. A few cellular antennas are located above another small platform on the telecommunications tower, which is below the four main platforms. Four Yagi antennas are attached under the antenna tip . The telecommunications tower is a cable headend .

Frequencies and Programs

Analog radio (VHF)

Frequency
(MHz)
program RDS PS RDS PI Regionalization ERP
(kW)
Antenna pattern
round (ND) / directional (D)
Polarization
horizontal (H) / vertical (V)
94.3 Radio RSG ___RSG__ D47D - 0.2 D (90-130 °) H

Further information on analogue radio (FM)

For the use of VHF, the four Yagi antennas below the antenna tip are probably used. The exposed location of the telecommunications tower near the city center and the well-protected frequency between the basic network transmitters Münster (94.1 MHz WDR 2 M) and Roermond (94.5 MHz RADIO4NL) enabled a very good range, so that Radio RSG throughout the northern Cologne Bay was well received. The 94.3 achieved a significantly better range than the two RSG frequencies transmitted from Remscheid, 107.9 and 92.2 MHz, which, despite the greater antenna height, only achieve optimal coverage in close proximity. With the relocation of the 500 watt 94.2 MHz frequency from Much to the Lohmar-Birk telecommunications tower on August 7, 2009, the range of the 94.3 to the south was significantly restricted. Both frequencies interfere with each other from Leverkusen , so that from there Radio RSG can only be received to a limited extent and further south can no longer be received.

Directional radio

Some of the parabolic antennas installed on the tower indicate that the telecommunications tower is used for directional radio .

Cellular

The telecommunications tower is used by Deutsche Telekom , among others, for mobile communications . For mobile communications, among other things, the mobile communications antennas are installed above the small platform below the four main platforms.

Aerial view of Solingen, telecommunications tower

Others

The tower is popularly called Totterturm. In addition, its antenna platforms are painted in a striking blue and the top of the four platforms is not designed for antennas. Since the tower is a type tower of type FMT 9/84, it has no pulpit and no operating rooms.

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Sender photos Rhineland