Gerbrandytoren

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Basic data

Place:

IJsselstein

Province:

Utrecht

Country:

Netherlands

Coordinates: 52 ° 0 '36.2 " N , 5 ° 3' 12.8" E

Use:

Broadcasting station

Accessibility:

Transmission tower not open to the public

Tower data

Building materials :

Concrete , steel , reinforced concrete

Total height :

372 m

Data on the transmission system

Last modification (antenna) :

August 2, 2007

Last modification (transmitter) :

August 2007

Waveband :

FM transmitter

Radio :

VHF broadcasting

Send type:

DVB-T

Further data

Height tower:	100 m
Height mast:	272 m

Position map

Gerbrandytoren

Gerbrandytoren is the tallest building in the Netherlands .

The tower stands between Lopik and IJsselstein (near Utrecht ) and is designed as a hybrid tower : It consists of a 100-meter-high reinforced concrete tower on which a guyed tubular steel mast is placed. It is named after Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy , a former prime minister and later Nozema chairman in the 1950s. After construction in 1961, the total height was 382.5 meters; In 1987 it was cut to 375 meters.

The Gerbrandytoren as a Christmas tree

At Christmas time, the gerbrandy tower transformed by the backstays suspended lamps in the highest tree in the world.

On August 2, 2007, when the old television antenna for analogue television was replaced by one for DVB-T, the height was further reduced to 372 meters.

On July 15, 2011, there was a small fire in the tower. As a precaution, the transmission power was reduced and later switched off completely. As a result of these shutdowns, the large cities in the west were no longer supplied with public service programs.

It broadcasts TV and radio programs in the VHF range and is not to be confused with the transmission mast of the medium wave station Lopik .

A few kilometers southwest of the Gerbrandy Tower is a measuring mast of the Dutch weather service.

Programs

Analog radio (FM)
Channel	Frequency (MHz)	ERP (kilowatts)
SubLime FM	90.70	50
NPO Radio 2	92.60	72
Radio M	93.10	4th
NPO Radio 4	94.30	50
NPO 3 FM	96.80	72.43
Veronica	97.80	2.1
NPO Radio 1	98.90	72
BNR	100.10	58
Qmusic	100.70	68
SKYRADIO	101.50	0.066
Radio 538	101.90	0.2

Individual evidence

↑ Zendmast crimps negen meter . AD ( online [accessed December 2, 2015]).
↑ The television tower in Smilde collapsed. Retrieved July 18, 2011 .
↑ fmscan.org: Frequencies. Retrieved December 24, 2019 .

Web links

Commons : Gerbrandytoren - collection of images, videos and audio files

[1] Zendmast crimps negen meter . AD ( online [accessed December 2, 2015]).

[2] The television tower in Smilde collapsed. Retrieved July 18, 2011 .

[3] scan.org: Frequencies. Retrieved December 24, 2019 .