Bad Mergentheim transmitter (Drillberg)

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Bad Mergentheim transmitter (Drillberg)
Image of the object
Basic data
Place: Bad Mergentheim
Country: Baden-Württemberg
Country: Germany
Altitude : 328  m above sea level NHN
Coordinates: 49 ° 29 '17.9 "  N , 9 ° 45' 16.8"  E
Use: Broadcasting station
Accessibility: Transmission tower not open to the public
Tower data
Building materials : Concrete , reinforced concrete
Data on the transmission system
Waveband : FM transmitter
Radio : VHF broadcasting
Position map
Transmitter Bad Mergentheim (Drillberg) (Baden-Württemberg)
Bad Mergentheim transmitter (Drillberg)
Bad Mergentheim transmitter (Drillberg)
Localization of Baden-Württemberg in Germany

The station Bad Mergentheim (Drillberg) is a filling station for radio. It is located above Bad Mergentheim on the Drillberg, about one kilometer west of the city center. A free-standing concrete mast is used as an antenna carrier.

From here the city of Bad Mergentheim and the surrounding area are supplied with the antenna 1 radio program . The frequency 101.2 MHz has already been coordinated for a broadcast with 0.01 kW.

Until the introduction of DVB-T , the television programs ZDF (transmission power: 0.06 kW) and SWR Fernsehen (transmission power: 0.06 kW) were broadcast terrestrially by this station.

Frequencies and Programs

Analog radio (VHF)

The following radio program is broadcast on VHF by the Bad Mergentheim (Drillberg) station :

Frequency
(MHz)
program RDS PS RDS PI Regionalization ERP
(kW)
Antenna pattern
round (ND) / directional (D)
Polarization
horizontal (H) / vertical (V)
106.0 Antenna 1 ANTENNA1 D40A (regional),
D30A
Heilbronn 0.1 ND H

Before the 106.0 was put into operation, the 101.2 frequency was used with an output of 0.01 kW. It is not known whether this frequency will be restarted.

Analog television (PAL)

Before the switch to DVB-T, the broadcasting location was still used for analog television.

channel Frequency  
(MHz)
program ERP
(kW)
Transmission diagram
round (ND) /
directional (D)
Polarization
horizontal (H) /
vertical (V)
22nd 479.25 ZDF 0.06 D. H
60 783.25 SWR television Baden-Württemberg 0.06 D. H

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