Telecommunication tower Solling
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Telecommunication tower Solling
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| Basic data | ||||
| Place: | Hardegsen | |||
| Country: | Lower Saxony | |||
| Country: | Germany | |||
| Altitude : | 422 m above sea level NHN | |||
| Coordinates: 51 ° 42 ′ 26.8 " N , 9 ° 45 ′ 16.6" E | ||||
| Use: | Telecommunications tower , broadcasting station | |||
| Accessibility: | Transmission tower not open to the public | |||
| Owner : | German radio tower | |||
| Tower data | ||||
| Construction time : | 1962 | |||
| Operating time: | since 1962 | |||
| Total height : | 159 m | |||
| Operating rooms: | 25 m , 43.8 m, 70.6 m, 81.2 m, 98.3 m, 110 m | |||
| Data on the transmission system | ||||
| Last modification (transmitter) : | May 2006 | |||
| Waveband : | FM transmitter | |||
| Send types: | DVB-T, directional radio | |||
| Position map | ||||
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The telecommunications tower Solling is a 159 meter high telecommunications tower of the German radio tower , which was built in 1962 west of Espol in Solling , Lower Saxony ( Germany ). The Solling telecommunications tower is a type D tower and the oldest of only five towers in this class. The class is characterized by the fact that there is no operating pulpit, but rather several platforms distributed over the tower. The lowest platform of the tower is at a height of 25 meters. There are four large antenna platforms at heights of 43.8, 70.6 and 81.2 meters . The tower, the concrete shaft of which is 110 meters high, has two additional platforms, 98.3 and 110 meters high.
The tower is used to broadcast directional radio and television programs. Until the beginning of the 1990s, the radio program "Radio ffn" was broadcast on 102.8 MHz from here, which was then relocated to the Göttingen-Osterberg location . Since May 29, 2006 television programs in the DVB-T standard have been broadcast from this tower . On November 8, 2017, the switch to DVB-T2 with HEVC image coding took place.
The following DVB-T2 bouquets are broadcast:
Reception parameters
| Used by (HD Programs per Mux) | Modulation method |
Code rate | FFT mode | Guard interval |
Pilot tones | Data rate [Mbit / s] |
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| ZDF (5) | 64-QAM | 3/5 | 16k extended | 19/128 | Pilot Pattern 2 | 22.0 |
| ARD Digital (NDR) (5) NDR regional (5) |
64-QAM | 1/2 | 16k extended | 19/128 | Pilot Pattern 2 | 18.2 |
Until the introduction of DVB-T, the transmitter served as an analog basic network transmitter for the following programs:
| Programs | channel | ERP / polarization |
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| ZDF | E21 | 160 kW, horizontal, round |
| NDR television (Lower Saxony) | E59 | 250 kW, horizontal, round |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Data sheet DVB-T2 HD Lower Saxony. (PDF) NDR.de, accessed on November 7, 2017 .
Web links
- Telecommunication tower Solling. In: Structurae
- Channel table DVB-T Lower Saxony
- Photos of the telecommunications tower
