radio hsf
radio hsf (for H och s chul f unk) is the university radio at the Technical University of Ilmenau . Radio hsf is operated by a non-profit association , the hsf studentenradio eV. When it began broadcasting as a commercial radio for the technical college for electrical engineering and mechanical engineering in Ilmenau in May 1950, radio hsf is considered the oldest university radio in Germany.
reception
The hsf studentenradio eV has had a license for facility broadcasting since 1999 . Since then, radio hsf has been available in the city of Ilmenau on the VHF frequency 98.1 MHz. The transmitter is located on the Tragberg near Ilmenau and has 100 watts ( ERP ) transmission power . The program is also fed into the cable network of the student dormitories and various local TV cable operators. A live stream is broadcast over the Internet .
program
Regular program
The permanent program of radio hsf consists of programs in different formats . The main part of the program is made up of magazine programs that provide information about what is happening at the TU Ilmenau and the city of Ilmenau . This includes, in particular, reporting on university policy issues, but also on cultural life in the university environment. There are also various programs that are dedicated to music: “HeadZ” presents new releases from various musical genres. Other programs serve specific target groups. Radio hsf is also part of the national “ Campuscharts ” initiative , which presents the current charts for campus radios in Germany every Monday.
To complement the in-house productions, news and the programs “Campus & Karriere” and “PISAplus” are taken over by Deutschlandfunk . Outside of broadcast times, the BBC World Service program can be received on radio hsf , and Radio Eins is fed into the cable signal of the student dormitories .
Event broadcasting
Starting with the International Student Week Ilmenau ( ISWI ) in 1993, radio hsf accompanies larger events in Ilmenau with a specially produced special program. In addition to the ISWIradio , which has accompanied the student meeting every two years with a ten-day, 24-hour live program, there was a three-day full program on the occasion of the 1998 Thuringian Day in Ilmenau. Until the permanent broadcasting license was issued in 1999, these special programs were carried out as part of an event broadcast.
During these special programs for the ISWI, a large number of the top-class guests and speakers at the student meeting could be interviewed, among them were:
- 1993 Joseph Weizenbaum , Jochen Kubosch , Gerald Kaufmann , Johan Galtung , Stuart Miller , Vaclav Zak , Robert Jungk
- 1995 Klaus von Klitzing , Konrad Zuse , Eva Huenges , Wau Holland
- 1997 Fritz Reheis , Friedrich Hitzer , Tschynggys Aitmatow , Hans Birchler , Jacob Holdt , Joseph Weizenbaum
- 1999 Reiner Klingholz , Jack Steinberger , Amory Lovins , Rüdiger Nehberg
- 2001 Maurice King , Dave Schimel , Danny Schechter , Gary Melton , Robert Chassel , Wau Holland
- 2003 Johano Strasser , Joseph Weizenbaum, Joshua Farley , Gary Melton, Andy Müller-Maguhn
- 2005 Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson , Joseph Weizenbaum
- 2007 Danny Schechter, Raúl Montenegro , Brendan Dooley , Bernhard Huggonier , Valeriu Frunzaru and Matthias Platzeck .
For the ISWI 1993 radio hsf recorded a message from Hans-Dietrich Genscher .
In addition to the actual ISWIradio program, radio hsf organizes radio workshops in which international ISWI participants take part and prepare and produce a daily ISWIradio program under supervision.
In 2007 iSTUFF and the hsf studentenradio eV accompanied the ISWI for the first time via DVB-T in order to bring this major event closer to the people of Ilmenau.
Other Projects
In addition to the actual radio program, there are other projects within the hsf studentenradio eV:
- STRIPE: The Students Radio Internet Program Exchange has been developed as an online platform for some time, which can be used for the exchange of contributions, interviews or entire programs between student radios in Germany and Europe.
- hsf BigBand: On the 50th birthday of the hsf in 2000, the radio hsf BigBand was founded in December 1999 . Originally only intended for a birthday concert, the BigBand has made several successful appearances.
Studio technology
The studios and office of the hsf studentenradio eV are located in the basement of the student dormitory "Haus L" on the campus of the TU Ilmenau. Two studios are available for production and broadcasts. In the “big studio” there is a mixing desk from the Studer company for more complex programs and productions. Larger discussion groups can also be produced here thanks to a separate speaker room. In the “small studio”, programs are mainly produced in self-propelled mode, where a Studer mixing console is also used.
history
The studio in the old technical center (1950–1993)
In the spring of 1950, a radio system of the then technical college for electrical engineering and mechanical engineering in Ilmenau, initially set up as a makeshift and operated by them, began broadcasting. During the long break, programs of five to ten minutes in length were broadcast daily from a makeshift studio to the classrooms. Even then, the editorial team was thematically divided into the areas of politics , culture , economy , technology and sport .
The technical school radio also took over the former city radio system , which was used for announcements by the city administration as well as by parties and other organizations to the population of the city of Ilmenau. On behalf of the SED district leadership, the council of the district and the council of the city of Ilmenau, an old car was upgraded to a broadcast vehicle for public events such as May 1st or the anniversary of the GDR in 1954 , but it was broken down in 1956 due to engine damage and in the episode was dismantled.
When the capacity of the technical school was expanded to 800 students in the fall of 1951, the old technical center, which had been used as a finance school for years, was now back in the technical school. In 1952 and 1953, the later so-called back office studio was set up again by students in room 319 of the front building.
After the establishment of the University of Electrical Engineering in Ilmenau , the first of its students could be won for the facility, which has now been renamed University Radio. Between 1953 and 1955, technical and university students shared the studio. In 1955 the studio was transferred in full to the University of Electrical Engineering.
The studio was divided into an anteroom ( archive and files), a control room and a speaker room. The microphone CV 7049 from VEB Funkwerk Leipzig (the "bottle") was built into the speaker's desk . The room itself was covered with bast mats, under which was a layer of glass floss. The studio window between the speaker room and the control room was triple glazed and sealed with rubber. There was a thick carpet on the floor to dampen footfall. From 1952, there were two professional Wetzel tape machines in the control room , which worked with a tape speed of 76.2 cm / s. Now broadcasts and music recordings could be recorded and edited. The gluing technique with liquid acetone required great craftsmanship. The machines already had separate playback, recording and erasing heads.
Due to the high tape speed, only about 21 minutes of broadcast fit on 1000 m tape. In 1956, the tape machines were therefore converted by turning the capstan to 38.1 cm / s. As a result, the sound archive had to be copied over after a long period of work. In 1958 two TB 56d studio tape machines from Elektro-Akustik Gebr. Israel were acquired. This made it possible to exchange contributions with the radio. In addition, the scarce tape material could now be used more economically. In the early days, this was usually done during internships for the university radio operators at the Weimar and Leipzig broadcasters.
The control desk with command microphone, control panel, level meter and monitoring panel was also designed and built by the technical school and was in operation until 1993. Additional equipment also included an amplifier system, a VHF receiver, the jack panel and a wire radio receiver. In 1958, a CMV 563 condenser microphone from Neumann was added.
From 1955 thematic lunchtime programs were regularly broadcast in the cafeteria in the Curiebau: Mondays “Sports from the weekend”, Tuesdays “Culture and Science”, Wednesdays “Politics”, Thursdays “News / Reporters”, Fridays “Satire”, Saturdays “Dance music”. The programs were pre-produced the evening before. A spokesman from the service added current reports at noon that could be submitted in the studio. A broadcast group consisted of a broadcast manager, an editor, a speaker and a technician.
The design of the program “Satire” in particular turned out to be a very difficult task. Critical but also funny things were collected here and staged with music. The editor responsible was reprimanded for his critical contributions and had to go into “production” for two years to be “probed”.
After 1956, the university party leadership and FDJ leadership tried - alarmed by the current political developments - to gain greater influence in university radio. This was now directly subordinate to the university party leadership. However, they always viewed themselves as a relatively independent group that was not subject to regular controls or censorship . There were occasional complaints about the contents of the program, but only after the program had left.
In February 1957, some of the university's lectures were held in the Ilmenau Festival Hall. A field service studio was built there over several years to provide the hall with acoustic supply. This resulted in the division of university radio into two parts - the office staff produced programs and looked after the music archive, the field staff also took care of the sound reinforcement for all other events in the festival hall. These events included party conferences, the university carnival - with its own traditional broadcasts - and company parties of the large companies in the city and the Ilmenau district.
Since 1957 almost all major events in the Ilmenau district have been covered by the university radio. Around 150 events came together every year. A highlight was the annual sound reinforcement for the May 1st celebrations . The individual "call stations" were supplied with a central program from the office staff via post lines. The university sports festivals were also looked after by the university radio. Particularly noteworthy is the traditional football game between faculty and students, which was also commented on.
Up until 1966, a 1.5 hour program was broadcast daily to the old cafeteria in the Curiebau. In the following three years, the daily broadcasting time was reduced to 15 minutes until broadcasting almost completely came to a standstill in 1969/70 and was finally discontinued. The cause was the increasing complaints from university staff and kitchen staff, some of whom even threatened to quit.
The studio in the new cafeteria (1972–1989)
Until the opening of the new canteen on Ehrenberg , broadcasting was limited to two one-hour live broadcasts on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., which could only be received in boarding barracks via installed diode sockets . In addition, they kept themselves afloat with the production of commercials for the university film club.
When planning the new cafeteria on Ehrenberg, the university radio was not included in the plans by the architects, despite the detailed, complex and professionally developed projects that were already in place. As an emergency solution that still exists today, in 1972 a tiny room was separated from the upper corridor in the cafeteria, which served as a studio. In the beginning there was only a rudimentary cabling: a loudspeaker socket, a microphone socket and two loudspeakers per canteen, as well as a simple amplifier system. The cafeteria was not completely wired until the 1976 winter break. For this purpose, a jack field was installed and around 40 km of cables were pulled.
After the new cafeteria opened, short magazines, the so-called “radio time”, were broadcast there twice a week until the end of the 1990s. The topics came mainly from everyday university life, educational policy and the city. The whole thing was mixed up with music and event announcements. The programs were pre-produced and repeated several times during the lunch break.
On May 31, 1975, the last event in the festival hall was covered by the university radio - the contract with the city had expired. The workshop for the repair and maintenance of the devices had to move from the festival hall to a barrack on Neuhäuser Weg.
After the first television technology had been taken over by the film and image department of the university at the end of the 1970s, the hsf was increasingly active in the fields of video and television. In 1977 the first advertising film was shown in the foyer of the cafeteria. In 1982 the cabling in the cafeteria was supplemented with video cables. A separate “television text” was created in which documents were first filmed and these recordings played back on the monitors in the cafeteria. With the self-built computer system in 1988, a kind of teletext system was put into operation, which has been distributing information in the dormitories via broadband cable since autumn 1990 .
The system, which has meanwhile been further developed several times, is used by various associations at the university to disseminate information. Other activities of "hsf-TV" included the production of advertising videos, mountain festival and diploma films, as well as dubbing.
The turning point (1989–1991)
With the fall of 1989, new opportunities also opened up for university radio. Initially, there was a strong increase in interest in up-to-date, critical information. The airtime in the "Funkzeit" was no longer sufficient for reporting. In response to this, there was a new lunchtime program from autumn 1990, the "Funkgrube". Current political developments were also discussed in the joint public talk shows of the university radio and the student magazine Guru. In the spring of 1991 the first “hsf tuesday night” went over the station, which arose out of the need to broadcast live in addition to the pre-productions. This four-hour program on Tuesday evening, which now forms the core of a significantly more extensive program, consisted of an information magazine, talk show with studio guests and a music special. It was initially broadcast on the audio sub-carrier of the television cable broadcaster hsf-TV, and from 1992 on an FM frequency in the campus cable network.
The hsf as an association (1991 – today)
In autumn 1991 the hsf studentenradio eV was founded. The university radio - like all other working groups - was released from the responsibility of the then Technical University of Ilmenau and now had to support itself. This includes, above all, the procurement of the finances necessary for the operation of a radio station. Funding and donations (including donations in kind) as well as grants from the student council and student union have since formed the material basis of the association.
In 1993, university radio had the first opportunity to go on the air on a terrestrial VHF frequency. As part of the first International Student Week in Ilmenau (ISWI), the Thuringian State Media Authority approved an operational test on local radio. This special program was the first approved event broadcasting in Thuringia. From May 16 to 23, 1993, ISWIradio broadcast a full program on a Telekom FM transmitter on the Kickelhahn (200 watts at 104.4 MHz). An attractive program was designed by 35 active and former members, which, due to the relatively high transmission power, could be received almost everywhere in Thuringia . Since then, the ISWIradio has been broadcast every two years with lower power from the Ehrenberg and the Tragberg near Langewiesen .
The old studio in the Curie building was finally given up in the spring of 1993 - the building was completely gutted and redesigned. The university radio moved to the new studio in the Oeconomicum on the campus of the TU Ilmenau. It was equipped with used technology by the members of the hsf studentenradio eV and is now used to train students at the Technical University. A large number of media courses and the associated time and space restrictions made another move necessary.
At the end of 1995 the small studio in the basement of the student dormitory “Haus L” was put into operation, and the large studio there was also ready for ISWI'97. Much of the technology used came from the main control room of the former youth radio DT64 and was converted and expanded. Also at ISWI'97, the festival radio could also be heard for the first time via RealAudio on the Internet. The hsf studentenradio eV now has its own studio complex with two recording studios, an office and a social area.
In September 1999, the Thuringian State Media Authority assigned hsf studentenradio a permanent broadcasting license for the VHF frequency 98.1 MHz. Since then, programs have been produced live for up to 24 hours a week.
In January 2002, the hsf studentenradio eV was a founding member of the "Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Bürgerermedien Thüringen" (LAG Citizens Media), a network of all free radio and television stations in Thuringia. In addition, in autumn 2002 the old DT64 control desk in the large studio was replaced by a more powerful Studer desk.
literature
- Kathrin Lichtenberg u. a .: 50 years of university radio in Ilmenau - Festschrift . Ed .: hsf studentenradio eV Ilmenau May 2000.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information page ( Memento of the original dated November 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the Thuringian State Media Authority. Retrieved November 1, 2017.
- ↑ "hsf student radio e. V. ”continues on air in Ilmenau ( memento of the original from November 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release of the Thuringian State Media Authority on July 31, 2002
- ↑ www.ukwtv.de Transmitter table Thuringia
- ↑ a b Event broadcasting in Thuringia ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Thuringian State Media Authority. Retrieved November 1, 2017.
- ↑ Research Association for Electronic Media e. V. organizes event television for the first time ( memento of the original from January 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Thuringian State Media Authority. Retrieved February 16, 2009.
Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 56 " N , 10 ° 55 ′ 56" E