Salzburg-Mönchsberg transmitter
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Broadcasting station Salzburg-Mönchsberg
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| Basic data | ||||
| Place: | Mönchsberg in Salzburg | |||
| State: | Salzburg | |||
| Country: | Austria | |||
| Altitude : | 501 m above sea level A. | |||
| Coordinates: 47 ° 47 '46.1 " N , 13 ° 2' 25.7" E | ||||
| Use: | Broadcasting station | |||
| Demolition : | 1950s | |||
| Mast data | ||||
| Construction time : | 1930 | |||
| Building material : | steel | |||
| Operating time: | 1930-1950s | |||
| Last conversion (mast) : | August 1945 | |||
| Total height : | 70 m | |||
| Data on the transmission system | ||||
| Waveband : | AM station | |||
| Radio : | MW broadcasting | |||
| Shutdown : | 1950s | |||
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The transmitter Salzburg-Mönchsberg was a radio transmitter for medium wave on the Mönchsberg in Salzburg next to the observation tower. It went into operation in 1930 and used a braced steel truss mast with a square cross-section that was insulated from the ground and was used as a transmitting antenna. It transmitted up to 1934 on 1373 kHz with 500 watts transmission power and from 1934 on 1348 kHz with 2 kW transmission power. During the Second World War it was broadcast on 519 kHz in the network of the Reichsender München with 5 kW power.
In October 1944 the system was destroyed by a bomb attack, but a makeshift transmitter took over its function just two days later. In August 1945 a new 70 meter high transmission mast and a 5 kW transmitter were installed.
Since the location was rather unsuitable due to the poor conductivity of the ground, a new radio transmitter was built in Moosstrasse from 1950 to 1952 . The transmitter on the Mönchsberg served as a replacement transmitter for some time. Today there is a radio monitoring station of Telekom Austria in the former transmitter building, the base point isolator of the former transmitter mast still stands.