Transmitter Berlin-Stallupöner Allee

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The transmitter Berlin-Stallupöner Allee was a transmission system of the broadcasting company Berlin-Brandenburg in the Stallupöner Allee in the Berlin district Westend .

history

In 1946, shortly after the Second World War , the British military government ordered the construction of a transmitter in an old repeater office of the Deutsche Reichspost in Grunewald . The system was set up within two months and broadcasting began on August 17, 1946. Two 50 meter high self-radiating lattice masts were used for broadcasting on the frequency 1095 kHz with 1 kW for the British armed forces and on the frequency 1330 kHz with 5 kW for the NWDR . When it was noticed that not all of Berlin could be covered with this power, the transmission power was increased to 20 kW in 1949.

In July 1949 the plant fell to the NWDR. In the course of the Copenhagen Wave Plan , the NWDR was assigned the frequency 566 kHz, which was also used by the Athlone station in Ireland . Due to strong mutual interference from both transmitters, the power had to be reduced in the evening. The British armed forces received the frequency 1214 kHz. In September 1951 two new masts, each 120 and 126 meters high, were erected, with which a fade-out to the west could be realized at night.

At the end of 1955, the British armed forces gave up broadcasting their programs on this transmitter, the frequency was taken over by the BBC . At the same time, a third program, SFB 2 , was broadcast on 1484 kHz . In 1960, a new 100 kW transmitter system for broadcasting SFB 1 was put into operation, with which the range of the program could be enormously improved.

In the course of the Geneva Wave Plan , frequency changes took place in all three programs: SFB 1 received 567 kHz and no longer had to fade out to the west. SFB 2 received the 1449 kHz, the BBC the 810 kHz. In 1988 a new antenna system, consisting of two 130 meter high masts, was put into operation, only one of which was used in regular operation, while the other mast served as a reserve.

At the end of 1988 the BBC ceased operations via the Stallupöner Allee station. SFB 2 followed in 1993. At the end of 1997, the output of the 567 kHz frequency, on which the Radio Multikulti program was now broadcast, was reduced to just 1,800 watts. In the same year one of the two 130 meter high masts was replaced by a 45 meter high steel lattice tower. At the end of 2005 broadcasting was completely stopped, and in 2006 the last mast was dismantled.

The transmitter building was a listed building until 2013 , but was de-dedicated and demolished for a new building project in spring 2013.

Individual references and sources

  1. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  2. ^ Jüttemann, Andreas (2013). The East Prussia district of Berlin-Westend. Berlin: Pharus Plan.

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Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 16 ″  N , 13 ° 14 ′ 5 ″  E