Bad Marienberg transmitter

Bad Marienberg transmitter
Basic data
Place:	Bad Marienberg
Country:	Rhineland-Palatinate
Country:	Germany
Altitude :	554  m above sea level NHN
Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 49.2 "  N , 7 ° 57 ′ 33.4"  E
Use:	Broadcasting station
Owner :	German radio tower
Mast data
Construction time :	1967
Building material :	steel
Total height :	180  m
Data on the transmission system
Last modification (transmitter) :	August 2008
Waveband :	FM transmitter
Radio :	VHF broadcasting
Send type:	DAB +
Position map
Bad Marienberg transmitter

The transmission tower

The transmitter Bad Marienberg is a transmitter of the German radio tower on the northeastern outskirts of Bad Marienberg in the Westerwaldkreis . The 180-meter-high transmission mast on Marienberger Höhe uses a guyed tubular steel mast to broadcast FM radio , DAB + and DVB-T .

Frequencies and Programs

Analog radio (FM)

In addition to the north-eastern part of Rhineland-Palatinate, the station also supplies neighboring areas in North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse with the broadcast programs. Starting in the north-west in a clockwise direction, there is reception from Cologne to almost Dortmund, parts of the Sauerland, the Siegerland, Upper Hesse, Marburg, Gießen via the Wetterau to the Taunus ridge, where other Rhineland-Palatinate transmitters (Koblenz, Linz, Hardtkopf) then come in more strongly.

Frequency   (MHz)	program	RDS PS	RDS PI	Regionalization	ERP   (kW)	Antenna pattern round (ND) / directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V)
89.8	SWR1 Rhineland-Palatinate	SWR1_RP_	D3A1	-	25th	ND	H
95.4	SWR2	__SWR2__	D3A2	-	25th	ND	H
92.8	SWR3	__SWR3__	D3A3	Rhineland-Palatinate / Cologne	25th	ND	H
106.3	SWR4 Rhineland-Palatinate	SWR4_KO_	D6A4	Radio Koblenz	25th	ND	H
91.3	THE THING	THE THING_	D3A5	-	0.2	D (130 ° -50 °)	H
102.9	RPR1	RPR1._KO _RPR1 .__	D4A8 (regional),  D3A8	Rhineland	25th	ND	H

Digital radio ( DAB + )

Digital radio in the DAB + standard has been broadcast since December 15, 2016. The distribution of the nationwide multiplex takes place in a vertical polarization in single-frequency network ( Single Frequency Network ) with other stations.

Südwestrundfunk (SWR) has also been broadcasting its programs via DAB + with 7 kilowatts (kW) from the Bad Marienberg station since April 20, 2017. The activation was necessary so that the listeners in the north of Rhineland-Palatinate, in particular the Westerwald and the Rhineland-Palatinate Hintertaunus, were better supplied with the digital radio. In addition, the large city of Siegen , which is already in North Rhine-Westphalia, also benefits in part from the additional SWR Mux that can be received. Rockland Radio as well as the youth stations big.fm and DASDING are not at all or only very weakly broadcast via FM from Bad Marienberg and are now for the first time much better receivable in the regions listed above via DAB +. However, a DAB + transmitter does not have as long a range as a comparable FM transmitter. Therefore (as of the end of 2018) further DAB + filling stations from Südwestrundfunk are necessary. Because while the Bad Marienberg transmitter still reaches the Wildenburger Land in the far north of Rhineland-Palatinate, around the municipality of Friesenhagen, the DAB + indoor reception often fails, especially in the valleys of the low mountain range. Since, in addition to the Wissertal, the Siegtal with the cities of Betzdorf, Kirchen and Wissen is also affected by DAB + reception gaps, the SWR announced on request that another DAB + transmitter is planned for 2020 in the Mudersbach area, which will also optimally reach Siegen can.

block	Programs	ERP (in kW)	Antenna pattern round (ND), directional (D)	Single frequency network (SFN)
5C DR Germany (D__00188)	DAB + block of media broadcast: Absolutely relax (72 kbps) Dlf (104 kbps) Dlf culture (112 kbps) DLF Nova (104 kbps) DRadio DokDeb (48 kbps) Energy Digital (72 kbps) ERF Plus (72 kbps) Classic radio (72 kbps) Radio Bob (72 kbps) Radio Horeb (48 kbps) Radio Schlagerparadies (64 kbps) Black Forest radio (64 kbps) sunshine live (72 kbps) DRadio data (32 kbps data) EPG Germany (16 kbps data) TPEG (16 kbps data) TPEG_MM (16 kbps data)	5	ND	Baden-Württemberg: Aalen , Baden-Baden (Fremersberg) , Bad Mergentheim , Blauen , Brandenkopf , Donaueschingen , Feldberg in the Black Forest , Freiburg (Vogtsburg-Totenkopf) , Geislingen (Oberböhringen) , Heidelberg (Königstuhl) , Heilbronn (Schweinsberg) , Upper Rhine ( Rickenbach) , Pforzheim (Schömberg-Langenbrand) , Raichberg , Ravensburg (Höchsten) , Stuttgart (Frauenkopf) , Ulm (Kuhberg) Bavaria: Amberg (Hirschau) , Aschaffenburg (Pfaffenberg) , Augsburg (hotel tower) , Bamberg (Geisberg) , Büttelberg , Brotjacklriegel , Grünten , Herzogstand , Hochberg (Traunstein) , Hoher Bogen , Ingolstadt (Gelbelsee) , Kreuzberg / Rhön , Landshut (Altdorf ) , Munich (Olympic Tower) , Nuremberg , Oberammergau , Ochsenkopf , Passau , Pfänder , Pfarrkirchen , Pfronten , Regensburg (Hohe Linie) , Untersberg , Wendelstein (Bayrischzell) , Würzburg (Frankenwarte) Berlin: Berlin (Alexanderplatz) , Berlin (Scholzplatz) Brandenburg: Bad Belzig , Boossen , Brandenburg / Havel , Calau , Casekow , Cottbus , Pritzwalk , Templin Bremen: Bremen (Walle) , Bremerhaven-Schiffdorf Hamburg: Hamburg (Moorfleet) , Hamburg (Heinrich Hertz Tower) Hesse: Bad Hersfeld (Rimberg) , Biedenkopf (bagpipe) , Fulda (Hummelskopf) , Frankfurt (Europaturm) , Gelnhausen (Schnepfenkopf) , Gießen (Dünsberg) , Großer Feldberg , Hardberg , Hoher Meißner , Kassel (Habichtswald) , Mainz-Kastel Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Garz (Rügen) , Neubrandenburg-Süd , Rostock (Toitenwinkel) , Röbel , Schwerin (Zippendorf-Gr.Dreesch) , Züssow Lower Saxony: Aurich-Popens , Braunschweig (Broitzem) , Braunschweig (Drachenberg) , Cuxhaven-Stadt , Dannenberg , Göttingen (Bovenden-Osterberg) , Hanover (Telemax) , Lingen , Lüneburg-Neu Wendhausen , Molbergen-Peheim , Osnabrück (Bramsche-Schleptruper Egge) , Hildesheim (Sibbesse / Griesberg) , Visselhövede North Rhine-Westphalia: Aachen (Karlshöhe) , Bielefeld (Hünenburg) , Bonn (Venusberg) , Dortmund (Florian tower) , Düsseldorf (Rheinturm) , Eggegebirge , Herscheid , Hochsauerland (Hunau) , Cologne (Colonius) , Langenberg , Lügde-Rischenau (Köterberg ) , Minden (Jakobsberg) , Münster (telecommunications tower) , Siegen-Süd , Wesel Rhineland-Palatinate: Bad Marienberg (Westerwald) , Bornberg , Daun (Eifel) , Edenkoben (Kalmit) , Idar-Oberstein , Kaiserslautern , Kettrichhof , Koblenz (Kühkopf) , Trier (Petrisberg) Saarland: Saarbrücken (Schoksberg) Saxony: Chemnitz , Dresden , Geyer , Leipzig , Löbau , Neustadt , Oschatz , Schöneck Saxony-Anhalt: Brocken , Burg , Dequede , Petersberg , Pettstädt (Weißenfels) , Wittenberg Schleswig-Holstein: Bungsberg , Flensburg , Heide , Helgoland , Kiel (Kronshagen) , Lübeck (Stockelsdorf) , Westerland (Sylt) Thuringia: Bleßberg (Sonneberg) , Gera , Inselsberg , Jena (Oßmaritz) , Kulpenberg , Saalfeld (Remda) , Lobenstein (Sieglitzberg) , Weimar (Ettersberg)
11A  SWR RP (D__00217)	DAB block of the SWR : SWR1 RP (96 kbps) SWR2 (96 kbps) SWR3 (Rhineland-Palatinate) (96 kbps) SWR4 KL (88 kbps) SWR4 KO (88 kbps) SWR4 LU (88 kbps) SWR4 MZ (88 kbps) SWR4 TR (88 kbps) DASDING (96 kbps) SWR current (72 kbps) bigFM (72 kbps) RPR1 (national) (72 kbps) Rockland Radio (national) (72 kbps) EPG (24 kbps) TPEG (16 kbps)	7th	ND	Kaiserslautern region: Bornberg , Kaiserslautern (Rotenberg) , Kettrichhof , Zweibrücken Koblenz region: Alf-Bullay , Bad Marienberg , Diez , Koblenz (Dieblich-Waldesch) , Linz am Rhein Ludwigshafen region: Weinbiet Mainz region: Donnersberg , Idar-Oberstein , Mainz-Kastel Trier region: Bitburg , Haardtkopf , Schartenberg (Eifel) , Saarburg , Trier (Markusberg)

Digital television ( DVB-T )

Since August 26, 2008, the Bad Marienberg broadcaster has been broadcasting digital antenna television ( DVB-T ) with three public multiplex channels for the Westerwald region . The horizontal polarization was retained, antennas did not have to be rotated. The digital broadcasts ran in single-frequency operation with other broadcasting locations. The broadcast of DVB-T ended on November 8, 2017. A switch to DVB-T2 is not planned. The region is now only partially supplied with DVB-T2 by the broadcasters Koblenz and Siegen.

channel	Frequency   (MHz)	Multiplex	Programs in multiplex	ERP   (kW)	Antenna pattern round (ND) / directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V)	Modulation method	FEC	Guard interval	Bit rate   (Mbit / s)	Single frequency network (SFN)
E56	754	ARD Digital (SWR)	The First (SWR) ARTE Phoenix One	20th	ND	H	16 QAM  (8 k mode)	2/3	1/4	13.27	Bad Marienberg (Marienberger Höhe) , Kühkopf (Koblenz), Heckenbach-Schöneberg (Ahrweiler), Ginsterhahn-Linzer Höhe (Linz)
E33	570	ARD regional  (SWR)  Rhineland-Palatinate	SWR television Rhineland-Palatinate Bavarian Television South (Swabia / Old Bavaria) hr television WDR television (Cologne)	20th	ND	H	16 QAM  (8 k mode)	2/3	1/4	13.27	Bad Marienberg (Marienberger Höhe) , Kühkopf, Heckenbach-Schöneberg, Ginsterhahn-Linzer Höhe
E28	530	ZDFmobil	ZDF 3 sat ZDFinfo KiKA (6 a.m. - 9 p.m.) / ZDFneo (9 p.m. - 6 a.m.)	20th	ND	H	16 QAM  (8 k mode)	2/3	1/4	13.27	Bad Marienberg (Marienberger Höhe) , Kühkopf, Heckenbach-Schöneberg, Ginsterhahn-Linzer Höhe

Analog television

Until the switch to DVB-T , the following programs were broadcast in analogue PAL :

channel	Frequency   (MHz)	program	ERP (kW)	Antenna pattern round (ND) / directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V)
E47	679.25	The First (SWR)	50	ND	H
E21	471.25	ZDF	190	ND	H
E44	655.25	SWR TV Rhineland-Palatinate / Southwest TV / Southwest 3	250	ND	H

The 3rd SWF program could be received via channel 44 of this station as far as North Rhine-Westphalia (Bergisches Land, Sauerland and Siegerland) and on a line from Marburg to Bad Homburg.

See also

• List of transmitters in Rhineland-Palatinate
• List of the television towers and transmission systems of Deutsche Telekom
• List of DAB stations in Germany

Individual evidence

1. ↑ MEDIA BROADCAST completes next expansion stage for nationwide digital radio multiplex ( Memento from December 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
2. ↑ antenna | Reception . In: swr.online . ( swr.de [accessed on April 5, 2017]).
3. ↑ http://www.swr.de/dvbt/infoarchiv20.html
4. ^ SWR: Broadcasters and Channels Rhineland-Palatinate. May 2017, accessed on 9 October 2017 . 
5. ↑ http://www.swr.de/dvbt/programmangebote.html