TV station Monschau

TV station Monschau
Raised transmission mast in 2013
Basic data
Place:	Monschau , Simmerath-Lammersdorf
Country :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Country:	Germany
Altitude :	574  m above sea level NHN
Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 54.6 "  N , 6 ° 15 ′ 45.8"  E
Use:	Telecommunications tower , broadcasting station
Accessibility:	Transmission tower not open to the public
Owner :	German radio tower
Tower data
Building material :	steel
Last renovation (tower) :	September 2013
Data on the transmission system
Waveband :	FM transmitter
Radio :	VHF broadcasting
Send type:	Cellular radio , directional radio
Position map
TV station Monschau

The television station Monschau or telecommunications tower Lammersdorf is located near Lammersdorf in the municipality of Simmerath in the Aachen region . It is a telecommunications tower in steel framework construction . Before the conversion to DVB-T , the North West Eifel, partly the city ​​of Aachen and the neighboring German-speaking Community of Belgium were supplied with ZDF and WDR television from here . Despite the low construction height, it had due to its location on a mountain with a height of 648  m above sea level. NN a large range. With the introduction of DVB-T in the Aachen region on November 20, 2007, the television stations were taken out of service. Four days later, the top of the tower with the transmitting antenna was dismantled. The transmission of DVB-T / T2 programs is not planned in this part of the Eifel. The tower now only carries cell phone antennas and VHF antennas for broadcasting the local radio station Antenne AC .

On September 6, 2013 the transmission tower was raised. The exact reason for the increase and the current total amount are not known. Until then, the total height was 66 meters.

The operator and owner of the system is Deutsche Funkturm (DFMG), a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom based in Münster .

Frequencies and Programs

Analog radio (VHF)

Frequency (MHz)	program	RDS PS	RDS PI	ERP (kW)	Antenna pattern round (ND) / directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V)
97.2	Antenna AC	Antenna_	D098	0.05	D (110-180 °)	H

Analog television (PAL)

Before the switch to DVB-T, the following television programs were broadcast in the analogue PAL standard:

channel	Frequency   (MHz)	program	ERP (kW)	Antenna pattern round (ND) / directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V)
21st	471.25	ZDF	220	D.	H
50	703.25	WDR television (Aachen)	330	D.	H

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jochen Patzwald: Sender Photos Rhineland. Retrieved September 9, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Überallfernsehen.de: shutdown of analog frequencies on November 20, 2007. (PDF; 41 kB) Accessed on September 9, 2013 . 
3. ↑ Flickr (user umoncastle): Pictures of the dismantling of the transmitting antenna with date. Retrieved September 9, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Aachener Nachrichten: Eifel TV tower is increased. September 6, 2013, accessed September 9, 2013 .