Schinkelturm (Osnabrück)

Schinkel Tower is the telecommunications tower on the Schinkel mountain in Osnabrück called. The internal name of the tower is FMT Osnabrück 8 (OBK 8).

General information

Construction of the 158 meter high tower began on June 29, 1976 and was completed in 1977. It is located in the Widukindland district on the northeastern city boundary to Belm and is therefore also called Telecommunications Tower Belm or Belmer Tower by the operator Deutsche Funkturm (DFMG) .

A special feature is the red operating floor made of glass fiber reinforced plastic (GRP) and steel .

There is an elevator system within the tower shaft . The trip to the company floor above takes 100 seconds. The staircase also leads to the company floor via 550 steps. The operating rooms between the two platforms are divided over two floors. The first is above the first platform at a height of 108 m and is a construction floor, which is used exclusively for static purposes. The actual operating floor is above. All the technology is in it.

This tower is the type tower FMT 13 with a service floor of the type FeN 2e / 72. The total weight of the tower is 5600 tons . The deflection of the spire at a calculated wind speed of 4.5 m / s is a maximum of 0.70 meters , the deflection of the spire due to warming (sun) is a maximum of 0.11 meters.

Frequencies and Programs

Digital television ( DVB-T2 )

Since the switch to the DVB-T2 standard with HEVC image coding on April 25, 2018, the Belm telecommunications tower has been used again for broadcasting television programs. Both public and private multiplexes are distributed. Freenet TV's private programming is broadcast by the Schinkelturm in single-frequency operation with the Bielefeld (Hünenburg) and Münster (city) locations . Optionally, additional programs contained in Freenet TV connect as a link can be played back via an Internet connection if the receiving device supports HbbTV (version 1.5 or higher).

The following DVB-T2 bouquets are transmitted:

channel	Frequency (MHz)	Multiplex	Programs in multiplex	ERP (kW)	Antenna diagram round (ND) / directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V)	SFN with
24	498	Freenet TV Mux 1	RTL HD (NRW with RTL West ) RTL II HD Super RTL HD VOX HD n-tv HD NITRO HD Tele 5 HD	20th	D (70-290 °)	V	Bielefeld (Hünenburg) , Münster (city) , Osnabrück (Schinkelturm)
27	522	Freenet TV Mux 2	ProSieben HD Sat.1 HD (NRW with 17:30 Sat.1 ) cable one HD ProSieben Maxx HD Sat.1 Gold HD sixx HD sport1 HD	20th	D (70-290 °)	V	Bielefeld (Hünenburg) , Münster (city) , Osnabrück (Schinkelturm)
37	602	ARD regional (NDR) Lower Saxony	NDR television HD (Lower Saxony) WDR television (Cologne) HD HR television HD / NDR FS HD (HH) (temporarily) mdr television (Saxony-Anhalt) HD / NDR FS HD (MV) (temporarily) BR Television South HD / NDR FS HD (SH) (temporarily)	5	D.	V	Lingen , Osnabrück (Bramsche-Schleptruper Egge) , Osnabrück (Schinkelturm)
39	618	Freenet TV Mux 3	WORLD HD DMAX HD Eurosport1 HD Disney Channel HD nick HD / MTV + HD bibel.TV ( FTA ) QVC ( FTA ) QVC 2 ( FTA ) HSE24 ( FTA ) 1-2-3.tv ( FTA ) freenet shopping ( FTA ) Info channel ( FTA )	20th	D (70-290 °)	V	Bielefeld (Hünenburg) , Münster (city) , Osnabrück (Schinkelturm)
41	634	ARD Digital (NDR)	The first HD phoenix HD arte HD tagesschau24 HD one HD	5	D.	V	Lingen , Osnabrück (Bramsche-Schleptruper Egge) , Osnabrück (Schinkelturm)
45	666	Mixed multiplex from ZDF and freenet TV	ZDF HD 3sat HD KiKa HD ZDFneo HD ZDFinfo HD freenet TV connect ( HbbTV service with multiple streams, HbbTV v1.5 required)	5	D.	V	Lingen , Münster-Baumberge , Münster (city) , Osnabrück (Bramsche-Schleptruper Egge) , Osnabrück (Schinkelturm)

Send parameters

Used by (HD Programs per Mux)	Modulation method	Code rate	FFT mode	Guard interval	Pilot tones	Data rate [Mbit / s]
Freenet TV (5–7)	64-QAM	2/3	32k extended	1/16	Pilot Pattern 4	27.6
ZDF (5)	64-QAM	3/5	16k extended	19/128	Pilot Pattern 2	22.0
ARD Digital (NDR) (5) NDR regional (5)	64-QAM	1/2	16k extended	19/128	Pilot Pattern 2	18.2

Analog television

Until the DVB-T switch in the Bremen / Unterweser and Hanover / Braunschweig regions on May 24, 2004, the following programs were broadcast in analogue PAL :

channel	Frequency (MHz)	program	ERP (kW)	Transmission diagram round (ND) / directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V)
36	591.25	RTL Television (Lower Saxony / Bremen)	0.2	ND	V
44	655.25	Sat.1 (Lower Saxony / Bremen)	0.2	ND	V

Analog radio (VHF)

Frequency (MHz)	program	RDS PS	RDS PI	ERP (kW)	Antenna pattern round (ND) / directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V)
98.2	Radio Osnabrück	.OSNA.	1582	0.25	D (250-360 °)	V
101.8	Deutschlandfunk	__Dlf___	D210	0.5	D (250-270 °)	H
107.6	Radio Osnabrück	.OSNA.	1582	0.63	D (250-360 °)	H

Amateur radio

Up until July 25, 2016, there was an automatic amateur radio station on the Schinkelturm under the callsign DB0OBK, which was operated by the VFDB -Ortsverband Z36 (Osnabrück). There were packet radio link routes to Rheine DB0RTV and Oldenburg (DB0PDF) that worked in the 23-centimeter band ( SHF ), as well as an entry in the 70-centimeter band ( UHF ) which had been running since December 19, 2007 was active again at 439.800 MHz (-9.4 MHz offset). At the end of 2007, the 70 cm radio call transmitter on 439.9875 MHz was also put into operation. Since February 2008, a few weeks later was a test operation, the 2-m - relay station with TERMINATION antenna location on 145.7125 MHz (-600 kHz offset) in operation. The entire operation under the call sign DB0OBK was discontinued on July 25, 2016, the relay technology is back in operation on the Dörenberg under the call sign DB0DOS.