Oebisfelde radio station

The Oebisfelde radio station was a German shortwave transmitter near Bösdorf near Oebisfelde , construction of which began in 1938 and which went into operation in 1942. As the main transmitting antenna, this station used a dipole wall , which was attached to fifteen 50-meter to 100-meter high towers. There were also several rhombus antennas attached to wooden masts .

The transmitter building looked like a field barn, but had walls 1.6 to 3 meters thick and was 100 meters long, 25 meters wide and 16 meters high. It had very extensive air conditioning and was equipped with an elevator. It had three floors: the power supply transformers and the modulation transformer were located in the basement, the rectifiers were located on the ground floor , while the actual transmitters were located on the upper floor. The six transmitters could generate up to 100 kilowatts, depending on the operating mode.

A substation was built in Bösdorf to supply power to the system, which was fed from a 50 kV branch line from a line in the Weferlingen overland network, a few kilometers away . The substation still exists today.

The transmitters were used for broadcast and marine radio services. In 1942 the construction of an extension complex began, but could no longer be completed. On April 12, 1945, the area was occupied by American troops who set up a POW camp there. On July 3, 1945, the facility was handed over to the Soviet troops and subsequently dismantled.

literature

Gerd Klawitter: 100 years of radio technology in Germany: radio stations around Berlin. Pp. 129-140.