Bayreuth transmitter
The Bayreuth transmitter was a facility of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation to broadcast a radio program on the medium wave frequency 520 kHz .
It was initially located on the Bindlacher Berg and was originally set up for air traffic control. Since the area around Bayreuth could not be adequately supplied with the existing medium-wave transmission systems after the entry into force of the Copenhagen Wave Plan , this system was converted into a radio transmitter, which went into operation on January 10, 1951. The transmitters were located in a barrack owned by the Wehoba company (Weilheimer Holzbau). A T-antenna 70 meters in length was used as the transmitter antenna , which was attached to two 40 meter high wooden masts.
After the then NWDR started operating a radio station in Geitelde near Braunschweig on the Bayreuth frequency at the end of 1953 , there were severe interference with reception. As a consequence, the output of the transmitter in Geitelde was reduced and the output of the Bayreuth transmitter was increased to 500 watts on January 25, 1954 by installing an American military transmitter of the type 12 GLX. In addition, the antenna system was renewed: the T-antenna was dismantled and replaced by a 65-meter-high, self-radiating lattice mast with roof capacity, insulated from earth. This mast was located in the Bayreuth basin on the Frankengut 4 property on the edge of the Birken district .
A further increase in output to 625 watts took place on April 25, 1957, after a Lorenz transmitter replaced the American military transmitter . Originally, the Bayreuth transmitter was only in operation during the night. It was not until July 1, 1961 that it was operated all day.
On November 17, 1966, the transmission power was reduced to 62 watts and later to 32 watts. On October 10, 1969, the Bayreuth transmitter was shut down and dismantled. The devices last used are exhibited in the Nuremberg Transport Museum.
The so-called secondary station Bayreuth of the Reichssender München, which opened on July 10, 1936, was not a station in the actual sense, but a studio, mainly for broadcasting the Wagner Festival.
literature
Radio-Kurier - listen worldwide, 6/2014, p. 27
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chronicle of the BR at a glance
- ↑ Andreas Brudnjak: The history of the German medium-wave transmission systems from 1923 to 1945 . Funk Verlag Bernhard Hein, Dessau-Roßlau 2010, ISBN 978-3-939197-51-5 . P. 41
Coordinates: 49 ° 56 '4.4 " N , 11 ° 35' 1.5" E