Beidweiler transmitter
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Beidweiler transmitter
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| Place: | Beidweiler ( Junglinster ) | ||||||||
| Canton: | Grevenmacher | ||||||||
| Country: | Luxembourg | ||||||||
| Altitude : | 272 m above sea level NHN | ||||||||
| Coordinates: 49 ° 43 ′ 48 ″ N , 6 ° 19 ′ 12 ″ E | |||||||||
| Use: | Broadcasting station | ||||||||
| Accessibility: | Transmission system not accessible to the public | ||||||||
| Owner : | Broadcasting Center Europe | ||||||||
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| Number of towers / masts: | 3 | ||||||||
| Height of the towers / masts : | 290 m | ||||||||
| Construction time: | 1972 | ||||||||
| Operating time: | since 1972 | ||||||||
| Last modification (transmitter) : | 2011 | ||||||||
| Waveband : | LW transmitter | ||||||||
| Radio : | LW broadcast | ||||||||
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The station Beidweiler is a long wave station of the Broadcasting Center Europe, a subsidiary of the RTL Group . With it, the French-language program RTL is broadcast in the direction of Paris (maximum radiation in the south-west).
Via the transmitter
In the vicinity of Beidweiler , the Broadcasting Center Europe, a subsidiary of the RTL Group, has been operating a long-wave transmitter for broadcasting the French-language RTL radio program on the 234 kHz frequency with an output of 1500 kilowatts since 1972 .
The long wave transmitter consists of a directional antenna, which consists of three identical, guyed, grounded masts 290 m high, to which fish trap antennas are attached. These antennas are fed at the base.
history
The transmitter went into operation in 1972 with an output of 1,400 kilowatts and replaced the transmitter in Junglinster that went into operation in 1932 and has only served as a reserve antenna since 1974. In 1974, the transmission power was increased to 2000 kilowatts and the Beidweiler transmitter became one of the most powerful long-wave transmitters in the world. In 1994, a new, 2000-kilowatt tube transmitter from Telefunken was installed, which was in turn replaced in 2011 by a 1500-kilowatt fully transistorized transmitter from the successor company Transradio Sendersysteme Berlin .