Radio hecaphone

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Radio hecaphone
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Main portal of the former TGM at Währinger Straße 59.
Basic data
Place: Währinger Strasse 59 in Alsergrund
State: Vienna
Country: Austria
Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '23.9 "  N , 16 ° 21' 5.3"  E
Use: Broadcasting station
Data on the transmission system
Construction time: 1923
Operating time: 1923-1924
Waveband : AM station
Radio : MW broadcasting
Shutdown : 1924
Further data
Commissioning : July 1, 1923
Position map
Radio Hekaphon (Vienna)
Radio hecaphone
Radio hecaphone
Localization of Vienna in Austria

Radio Hekaphon was the first radio broadcaster in Austria. It was a test transmitter that was created on a private initiative and operated successfully from 1923 to 1924 for broadcasting a designed language and music program in Vienna .

history

In 1923 twelve applicants competed in the competition brief to a broadcasting license in Austria. Which - as of April 1, 1923 one of the applicants began United Telephonfabriken AG Czeija, Nissl & Co. (literature lt also. United telephone and telegraph Fabrik AG Czeija & Nissl ) in Dresdner Straße 75 in the 20th Viennese district of Vienna- Brigittenau , under The technical director, Oskar Koton, is in charge of a private test transmitter with the transmission of a mixed program. Oskar Koton not only designed the transmitter with 100 watts of power, but acted in a personal union as his technicians, announcers and offered himself music with the piano is.

Oskar Koton later moved the transmitter to Währinger Strasse 59 in the 9th district of Vienna- Alsergrund , to a location more centrally located in the city. Here there was an antenna that could be used for this purpose, including a licensed transmission system, which was built in 1914 for the wireless transmission of telegraph signals . It was on the 4th floor of a building belonging to the Technological Trade Museum (TGM) in Vienna . After an opening ceremony on July 1, the station now broadcast as a radio hekaphon - 600 (500 kHz, approximately corresponds to the beginning of the current wave medium wave - band ). Hekaphon was a brand of Czeija & Nissl that was later used in the receivers manufactured by the company.

A highlight of the station's activities was the broadcast of the opening speech of Messe Wien in autumn by Federal President Michael Hainisch - the first ever radio address by a Federal President of the German-speaking area. Artists such as the singer Ernst Arnold from the Carltheater , Bert Silvings Radio Quartet (at Radio Wien then as the artist band Silving ) or the Burgtheater actor Raoul Aslan gained their first radio experience with Radio Hekaphon and were able to bring them to the later Radio Wien from 1924 .

Hekaphon's broadcasts were discontinued in 1924 after Oskar Czeija's group of applicants , from which Radio Verkehrs AG (RAVAG) emerged, was awarded a broadcasting license on February 19, 1924 , and the aforementioned radio program station in the second half of the same year Vienna could arise. However, RAVAG did not have its own transmitter with satisfactory results, which is why Oskar Koton's transmitter was initially used for broadcasting Radio Vienna.

reception

At a regional conference of the International Professional Association of Electricians and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in Spain, Radio Hekaphon was dubbed a pirate station in a lecture by two Austrian participants .

See also

literature

  • Haimo Godler: From steam radio to sound wallpaper: Contributions to 80 years of radio in Austria. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2004.
  • Reinhard Schlögl: Oskar Czeija: radio and television pioneer, entrepreneur, adventurer. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2005.
  • RAVAG: Radio Wien Welle 530 . Weekly program. RAVAG. Vienna, 1924.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Felix Czeike (Ed.): Wiener Geschichtsblätter . Research and contributions to the history of the city of Vienna. tape 36 . Association for the History of the City of Vienna, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7005-4672-6 , p. 79 .
  2. ↑ Helga Maria Wolf (Ed.): On ether waves . Personal radio story (s). Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-205-77279-2 , p. 13 ff .
  3. ↑ Difficult Birth - Radio in Austria 1921-1924. a longer story for 3 years. In: wabweb.net. April 11, 2005, accessed June 7, 2019 .
  4. ^ The Broadcast Archive - Austrian Broadcast History. In: oldradio.com. September 8, 2009, accessed June 7, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Peter Knezu: Radio HEKAPHONE - The first pirate broadcast transmitter in Austria. In: Second IEEE Region 8 Conference on the History of Telecommunications (HISTELCON) . ISBN 978-1-4244-7450-9 (English).