TV Tower Essen

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TV Tower Essen
Image of the object
TV Tower Essen
Basic data
Place: eat
Country : North Rhine-Westphalia
Country: Germany
Altitude : 95  m above sea level NN
Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 51 ″  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 47.9 ″  E
Use: Broadcasting station
Accessibility: Transmission tower not open to the public
Owner : German radio tower
Tower data
Construction data:
Total height : 159  m
Data on the transmission system
Send type: DVB-T2
Position map
TV tower Essen (North Rhine-Westphalia)
TV Tower Essen
TV Tower Essen
Localization of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany

The Essen Fernsehturm is a telecommunications tower southwest of the city center of Essen in the Holsterhausen district .

The 159 meter high television tower was built by the Deutsche Bundespost and is now owned by Deutsche Telekom . It is operated by Deutsche Funkturm GmbH and used, among other things, to transmit DVB-T .

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 pattern
round (ND) / directional (D)
Polarization
horizontal (H) / vertical (V)
105.0 Radio food __EAT_ D47A - 0.1 D (0 ° -50 °, 80 ° -190 °, 320 ° -330 °) H

The frequency 88.3 (formerly Deutschlandradio Kultur) was switched off in the course of the frequency swap at the Langenberg transmitter .

Digital television (DVB-T2 HD)

The changeover to the standard DVB-T2 HD with HEVC image coding was on 29 March 2017. The DVB-T2 broadcasts take place in the single-frequency operation (Single Frequency Network) with other sites. The public broadcasters are free to receive ( FTA ), while the private broadcasters are broadcast largely encrypted via the freenet TV platform .

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)
25th 506 WDR (middle) 50.12 V 64-QAM 1/2 19/128
29 538 ZDF 50.12 V 64-QAM 3/5 19/128
35 586 ARD 50.12 V 64-QAM 1/2 19/128
40 626 Freenet TV Mux 1 50.12 V 64-QAM 2/3 1/16
43 650 Freenet TV Mux 2 50.12 V 64-QAM 2/3 1/16
48 690 Freenet TV Mux 3 50.12 V 64-QAM 2/3 1/16

Web links

Commons : Fernsehturm Essen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence