Bernburg transmitter

Basic data

Place:

Bernburg (Saale)

Country:

Saxony-Anhalt

Country:

Germany

Altitude :

87 m above sea level NHN

Coordinates: 51 ° 48 ′ 30 ″ N , 11 ° 43 ′ 22 ″ E

Use:

Telecommunication system , radio transmitter

Owner :

German radio tower

Mast data

Building material :

steel

Total height :

40 m

Data on the transmission system

Last modification (transmitter) :

2008

Waveband :

FM transmitter

Radio :

VHF broadcasting

Send type:

Cellular

Position map

Bernburg transmitter

The Bernburg transmitter is a Deutsche Telekom AG facility for the distribution of radio programs.

Via the transmitter

Today's FM and cell phone transmitter

The antenna support is a silver-gray, guyed tubular steel mast that was 40 meters high and was erected in 1991. It is used to broadcast the Rockland Saxony-Anhalt program on 95.0 MHz and as a mobile radio transmitter.

Former medium wave transmitter

As a medium-wave transmitter, the Bernburg transmitter already existed in GDR times. It served to supply the state of Saxony-Anhalt and the districts of Halle and Magdeburg and was sometimes referred to as Sender Halle or Sender Halle-Bernburg . The 20 kW transmitter went into operation on December 24, 1946, but in the beginning it was often necessary to work with reduced power, in 1949 it was completely out of order for six months. The program of the “Landessender Halle” of the MDR was broadcast until 1952 , afterwards changing programs of the centralized radio of the GDR.

A wooden mast was used as the transmission mast until 1962, which originally stood in Königs Wusterhausen and was moved from there to Bernburg in 1945/46.

The frequency changed frequently, from initially 1303 kHz to 1196 kHz (1950), 1570 kHz (around 1960), 1385 kHz (1970s), 1430 kHz, 1431 kHz (1978), 1341 kHz (1980s). Towards the end of the GDR it was only used at night on 657 kHz, while the Burg transmitter broadcasted with 250 kW during the day . The last transmission was 5 kW at 1170 kHz. A capacitively elongated steel truss mast at 51 ° 48 '37 " N , 11 ° 43' 19" E and 51 meters high, which was erected in 1962 as a replacement for the wooden mast mentioned above, was used as the antenna support . On Google earth, the MW transmission mast is visible on a satellite image from June 1, 2000 under the given coordinates. 51.810277777778 11.721944444444

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the program was broadcast by Radio Sachsen-Anhalt , and when it was taken over by MDR on January 1, 1992, broadcasting was stopped. The transmitter mast was dismantled in autumn 2006.

In the Geneva Wave Plan , which has been in effect since 1978, a small medium-wave transmitter (1485 kHz, 1 kW) was provided for the Bernburg location. However, this was not used.

Frequencies and Programs

Analog radio (VHF)

Frequency (MHz)	program	RDS PS	RDS PI	Regionalization	ERP (kW)	Antenna pattern round (ND) / directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V)
95.0	Rockland Saxony-Anhalt	ROCKLAND	D3DA	-	1	D (10–340 °)	H

Individual evidence

↑ Bernburg radio mast made of wood, accessed on March 2, 2020
^ Newspaper article with a picture of the transmitter built in 1946

[1] Bernburg radio mast made of wood, accessed on March 2, 2020

[2] Newspaper article with a picture of the transmitter built in 1946