Shortwave Center Jülich
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Shortwave Center Jülich
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| Basic data | ||||
| Place: | Jülich | |||
| Country : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |||
| Country: | Germany | |||
| Altitude : | 106 m above sea level NHN | |||
| Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 52.8 " N , 6 ° 21 ′ 46.8" E | ||||
| Use: | Broadcasting station | |||
| Demolition : | 2010 | |||
| Data on the transmission system | ||||
| Number of towers / masts: | 34 | |||
| Construction time: | 1956 | |||
| Operating time: | 1956-2009 | |||
| Wavebands : | MW transmitter , SW transmitter | |||
| Radio : | MW broadcasting , KW broadcasting | |||
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The Kurzwellenzentrum Jülich was a location of several transmission systems in the areas of shortwave and medium wave between Jülich and Mersch .
In 1956 the West German Broadcasting Corporation set up the first shortwave transmitter on the Merscher Höhe . In the following years this facility was greatly expanded. On September 1, 1961, when Deutsche Welle was founded, it was handed over to what was then the Deutsche Bundespost . In the course of time, ten transmitters with an output of 100 kilowatts were installed, with huge dipole walls being spanned as transmitting antennas between free-standing steel lattice towers up to 103 meters high. At times these channels were rented to foreign providers.
In the 1990s, a transmission system for medium wave was installed on the area of the Jülich shortwave center , consisting of a long-wire antenna attached to a tower of the transmission station. It was supposed to be used to broadcast the Radio Viva program on 702 kilohertz, but this system was never used for the regular broadcast of Radio Viva programs.
From December 2004 until it was discontinued in mid-May 2008, the commercial German radio broadcaster Truckradio broadcast its program on 702 kilohertz via this system.
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In 2006, the British multimillionaire Bob Edmiston from West Bromwich acquired the entire transmission system. The car dealer and founder of the mission work Christian Vision is considered a creationist and had a. a. bought a transmitter in Darwin , Australia six years earlier . On January 1, 2008, the T-Systems transmitter was handed over to the religious broadcaster CVC / Christian Vision. After broadcasting was stopped on October 24, 2009, a leisure area with a campsite and hotels is to be built there. The owner is now a company from the Ruhr area.
On September 21, 2010, 32 of the 34 transmission masts were demolished. It was initially planned to preserve two of the masts as a memorial, but these were also demolished on November 8, 2010, as their maintenance would have been too costly.
Web links
- Historical pause sign of Deutsche Welle on shortwave until 1984. Archived from the original on August 29, 2018 ; accessed on August 6, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ^ “Fundamental visions from Jülich transmitter masts?” In the Aachener Nachrichten of March 7, 2007
- ↑ Volker Uerlings: Investor plans amusement park on the Merscher Höhe. In: Jülich newspaper. March 12, 2010, archived from the original on July 27, 2011 ; Retrieved October 23, 2010 .
- ↑ a b The Jülich landmarks are being scrapped. In: Aachener Nachrichten. November 8, 2010, archived from the original on November 12, 2010 ; Retrieved June 27, 2011 .
- ↑ Transmission masts on Merscher Höhe are scrapped , Aachener Nachrichten, September 21, 2010; Retrieved October 23, 2010