Telecommunication tower Vogtsburg-Totenkopf

The telecommunications tower Vogtsburg-Totenkopf on the Totenkopf is a 151.3 meter high telecommunications tower made of reinforced concrete by Deutsche Funkturm GmbH, which can be seen from afar .

designation

The official name of the facility is radio transmission center Vogtsburg 1 . In the official language of the German Federal Post Office, the locations were assigned to the local network on whose territory the telecommunications tower was located. This existing historical name was taken over by the German radio tower.

The television stations run under the name Sender Freiburg , earlier the name Sender Kaiserstuhl was occasionally used. Deviating from this, Südwestrundfunk calls its VHF transmitter Vogtsburg in order to distinguish it from its other VHF transmitter location in Freiburg-Lehen .

history

Today's transmission tower was built in 1987 to replace the steel lattice mast that was erected in 1961.

As part of the DVB-T conversion, the GRP cylinder was replaced on June 18, 2007 . The new cylinder is 4.7 meters shorter. This reduced the overall height from 156 meters to 151.3 meters. The concrete shaft has a total height of 134.7 meters.

Old and new transmission tower in 1987.

Aerial view of the telecommunications tower

Frequencies and Programs

Analog radio ( FM )

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

Frequency (MHz)	program	RDS PS	RDS PI	Regionalization	ERP (kW)	Antenna diagram round (ND) / directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V)
100.7	SWR4 Baden-Württemberg	SWR4_FR_	DB04	Radio Breisgau	1	D (60-180 °)	H
102.3	Radio Dreyeckland	RDL102.3	160B	-	1	D (60-180 °)	H

Digital radio ( DAB / DAB +)

block	Programs (data services)	ERP (kW)	Antenna diagram round (ND), directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V)	Single frequency network (SFN)
5C DR Germany (D__00188)	DAB + block of media broadcast : Absolutely relax (72 kbps) Dlf (104 kbps) Dlf culture (112 kbps) DLF Nova (104 kbps) DRadio DokDeb (48 kbps) Energy Digital (72 kbps) ERF Plus (72 kbps) Classic radio (72 kbps) Radio Bob (72 kbps) Radio Horeb (48 kbps) Radio Schlagerparadies (64 kbps) Black Forest radio (64 kbps) sunshine live (72 kbps) DRadio data (32 kbps data) EPG Germany (16 kbps data) TPEG (16 kbps data) TPEG_MM (16 kbps data)	5	D.	V	Baden-Württemberg: Aalen , Baden-Baden (Fremersberg) , Bad Mergentheim , Blauen , Brandenkopf , Donaueschingen , Feldberg in the Black Forest , Freiburg (Vogtsburg-Totenkopf) , Geislingen (Oberböhringen) , Heidelberg (Königstuhl) , Heilbronn (Schweinsberg) , Upper Rhine ( Rickenbach) , Pforzheim (Schömberg-Langenbrand) , Raichberg , Ravensburg (Höchsten) , Stuttgart (Frauenkopf) , Ulm (Kuhberg) Bavaria: Amberg (Hirschau) , Aschaffenburg (Pfaffenberg) , Augsburg (hotel tower) , Bamberg (Geisberg) , Büttelberg , Brotjacklriegel , Grünten , Herzogstand , Hochberg (Traunstein) , Hoher Bogen , Ingolstadt (Gelbelsee) , Kreuzberg / Rhön , Landshut (Altdorf ) , Munich (Olympic Tower) , Nuremberg , Oberammergau , Ochsenkopf , Passau , Pfänder , Pfarrkirchen , Pfronten , Regensburg (Hohe Linie) , Untersberg , Wendelstein (Bayrischzell) , Würzburg (Frankenwarte) Berlin: Berlin (Alexanderplatz) , Berlin (Scholzplatz) Brandenburg: Bad Belzig , Boossen , Brandenburg / Havel , Calau , Casekow , Cottbus , Pritzwalk , Templin Bremen: Bremen (Walle) , Bremerhaven-Schiffdorf Hamburg: Hamburg (Moorfleet) , Hamburg (Heinrich Hertz Tower) Hesse: Bad Hersfeld (Rimberg) , Biedenkopf (bagpipe) , Fulda (Hummelskopf) , Frankfurt (Europaturm) , Gelnhausen (Schnepfenkopf) , Gießen (Dünsberg) , Großer Feldberg , Hardberg , Hoher Meißner , Kassel (Habichtswald) , Mainz-Kastel Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Garz (Rügen) , Neubrandenburg-Süd , Rostock (Toitenwinkel) , Röbel , Schwerin (Zippendorf-Gr.Dreesch) , Züssow Lower Saxony: Aurich-Popens , Braunschweig (Broitzem) , Braunschweig (Drachenberg) , Cuxhaven-Stadt , Dannenberg , Göttingen (Bovenden-Osterberg) , Hanover (Telemax) , Lingen , Lüneburg-Neu Wendhausen , Molbergen-Peheim , Osnabrück (Bramsche-Schleptruper Egge) , Hildesheim (Sibbesse / Griesberg) , Visselhövede North Rhine-Westphalia: Aachen (Karlshöhe) , Bielefeld (Hünenburg) , Bonn (Venusberg) , Dortmund (Florian tower) , Düsseldorf (Rheinturm) , Eggegebirge , Herscheid , Hochsauerland (Hunau) , Cologne (Colonius) , Langenberg , Lügde-Rischenau (Köterberg ) , Minden (Jakobsberg) , Münster (telecommunications tower) , Siegen-Süd , Wesel Rhineland-Palatinate: Bad Marienberg (Westerwald) , Bornberg , Daun (Eifel) , Edenkoben (Kalmit) , Idar-Oberstein , Kaiserslautern , Kettrichhof , Koblenz (Kühkopf) , Trier (Petrisberg) Saarland: Saarbrücken (Schoksberg) Saxony: Chemnitz , Dresden , Geyer , Leipzig , Löbau , Neustadt , Oschatz , Schöneck Saxony-Anhalt: Brocken , Burg , Dequede , Petersberg , Pettstädt (Weißenfels) , Wittenberg Schleswig-Holstein: Bungsberg , Flensburg , Heide , Helgoland , Kiel (Kronshagen) , Lübeck (Stockelsdorf) , Westerland (Sylt) Thuringia: Bleßberg (Sonneberg) , Gera , Inselsberg , Jena (Oßmaritz) , Kulpenberg , Saalfeld (Remda) , Lobenstein (Sieglitzberg) , Weimar (Ettersberg)
11B DRS BW (D__00201)	DAB + multiplex of Digital Radio Südwest : baden.fm (72 kbps) bigFM (72 kbps) The new 107.7 (72 kbps) the new wave (72 kbps) Danube 3 FM (72 kbps) egoFM (72 kbps) Hitradio ear (72 kbps) Radio 7 (72 kbps) Schlager Radio B2 (72 kbps) Radio Rainbow (72 kbps) The new radio maritime radio (72 kbps) Radio Teddy (72 kbps) Radio sound (72 kbps) Rock antenna (72 kbps) Rainbow Two (72 kbps) Antenna 1 (72 kbps)	1 (max. 10)	D.	V	Geislingen (Oberböhringen) , Freiburg (Vogtsburg) , Heidelberg (Königstuhl) , Heilbronn (Schweinsberg) , Hornisgrinde , Lahr (Schutterlindenberg) , Pforzheim (Langenbrand) , Baden-Baden (Merkur) , Stuttgart TV tower , Ulm (Kuhberg) , Ettlingen (Wattkopf )

Digital television DVB-T2

Since November 8, 2017, the broadcasting location has been used for the following programs:

channel	Frequency (MHz)	package	Programs in the ensemble	ERP (kW)	Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V)	Antenna pattern round (ND) / directional (D)	Other transmitters in the single frequency network (SFN)
36	594	ARD	Das Erste HD, Tagesschau 24 HD, arte HD, Phoenix HD, ONE HD	50	H	ND	Baden-Baden Fremersberg , Freiburg Schoenberg
33	570	ZDF	ZDF HD, 3sat HD, zdf_neo HD, zdf_info HD, KIKA HD	50	H	ND	Freiburg Schönberg
39	618	ARD / third party	SWR BW HD, SWR RP HD, BR Süd HD, hr HD, WDR Cologne HD	50	H	ND	Baden-Baden Fremersberg , Freiburg Schoenberg
28	530	freenet TV 1	RTLHD, VOX HD, SUPER RTL HD, RTL II HD, n-tv HD, RTL NITRO HD, Tele 5 HD	50	H	ND	Freiburg Schönberg
42	642	freenet TV 2	SAT.1 HD, ProSieben HD, kabel eins HD, SIXX HD, Pro7 MAXX HD, SAT.1 Gold HD, Sport1 HD	50	H	ND	Freiburg Schönberg
29	538	freenet TV 3	DisneyChannel HD, N24 HD, DMAX HD, EUROSPORT 1 HD, nickelodeon HD, QVC HD, HSE24 HD, bibel.TV HD	50	H	ND	Freiburg Schönberg

In the course of the introduction of DVB-T2, TV broadcasting on the Freiburg-Schönberg transmitter was resumed; Since November 8th, DVB-T2 has been broadcast in single-frequency mode, but with vertical polarization.
Due to the shutdown of the two transmitters Hochrhein and Brandenkopf, there is no longer any single-frequency operation with these transmitters.
A change of channels 56 and 58 is planned.

Previous use as a television station

Digital television (DVB-T)

Of 10 July 2007 to 8 November 2017, the stations ran DVB-T in simulcast (Single Frequency Network) with other transmitter sites, then with DVB-T2 HD . When switching to DVB-T2 HD, however, the two channels Hochrhein and Brandenkopf were switched off without replacement and removed from the single-frequency network (recommissioning is currently not planned and terrestrial reception of German television programs is no longer possible in the affected regions).

channel	Frequency (MHz)	Multiplex	Programs in multiplex	ERP (kW)	Antenna pattern round (ND) / directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V)	Modulation method	FEC	Guard interval	Bit rate (Mbit / s)	Other transmitters in the single frequency network (SFN)
52	722	ARD Digital (SWR)	The First (SWR) ARTE Phoenix One	50	ND	H	16-QAM	2/3	1/4	13.27	Transmitter Hochrhein , Brandenkopf
39	618	ARD regional (SWR) Baden-Württemberg	SWR television (Baden-Württemberg) hr television Bavarian television (Swabia / Old Bavaria) WDR (Cologne)	50	ND	H	16-QAM	2/3	1/4	13.27	Transmitter Hochrhein , Brandenkopf
33	570	ZDFmobil	ZDF 3 sat ZDFinfo KiKA (6 a.m. to 9 p.m.) / ZDFneo (9 p.m. to 6 a.m.)	50	ND	H	16-QAM	2/3	1/4	13.27	Transmitter Hochrhein , Brandenkopf , Baden-Baden , Langenbrand

Analog television (PAL)

Before the switch to DVB-T, the transmission location was used for analog television: The telecommunications tower served as the basic network transmitter for the television programs ZDF (channel 33) and SWR television (channel 58), which were broadcast with a transmission power of 500 kW each.

channel	Frequency (MHz)	program	ERP (kW)	Transmission diagram round (ND) / directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V)
33	567.25	ZDF	500	D.	H
36	591.25	Sat 1	0.31	D.	H
38	607.25	RTL Television	0.31	D.	H
58	767.25	SWR television Baden-Württemberg	500	D.	H

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