Bingen transmitter

Bingen transmitter
Bingen transmitter and Kaiser-Friedrich-Turm (Bingen) seen from the Niederwald monument in Ruedesheim am Rhein.
Basic data
Place:	Rochusberg near Bingen on the Rhine
Country:	Rhineland-Palatinate
Country:	Germany
Altitude :	242  m above sea level NN
Coordinates: 49 ° 57 ′ 32.3 "  N , 7 ° 54 ′ 2.9"  E
Use:	Broadcasting station
Data on the transmission system
Waveband :	FM transmitter
Radio :	VHF broadcasting
Position map
Bingen transmitter

The Bingen transmitter is a radio broadcasting system ( transmitter for short ) that is located on the 242 meter high Rochusberg , the highest point in the city of Bingen on the Rhine . The transmitter is located in Rhineland-Palatinate, but primarily supplies the Hessian Rheingau between Bingen and Wiesbaden with radio programs.

Frequencies and Programs

Analog radio (VHF)

There are currently the following analogue radio transmitters on the tower:

Frequency (MHz)	program	RDS PS	RDS PI	Regionalization	ERP (kW)	Directional characteristic round (ND) / directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V)
91.1	hr3	__hr3___	D363	-	0.32	D (20–60 °)	H
92.3	You FM	_YOU_FM_	D366	-	0.32	D (20–60 °)	H
98.0	until January 18, 2017: DLF (currently out of service)	__DLF___	D210	-	0.32	D (0-40 °)	H
101.8	harmony.fm	harmony_	1364	-	0.32	D (20–60 °)	H
103.4	Classic radio	CLASSIC_	D75B	Hesse	0.2	D (20–60 °)	H
106.3	Deutschlandradio Kultur	DKULTUR_	D220	-	0.2	D (20–60 °)	H
106.9	Hit Radio FFH	_FFH-WI_ _F_F_H__	D968 (regional), D368	Wiesbaden	0.32	D (20–60 °)	H

Note on the Deutschlandfunk (DLF) program: On January 19, 2017, a program exchange took place between the DLF and the AFN Wiesbaden . Since then, AFNEAGLE has been broadcast by Mainz-Kastel . For this, the DLF was assigned the powerful 98.7 MHz frequency on the hr tubular mast on the Hessian Großer Feldberg . The DLF then switched off the filling stations that supplied some cities in the Rhine-Main area .

Analog television (PAL)

Before the switch to DVB-T, the transmitter location was used for analog television:

channel	Frequency   (MHz)	program	ERP (kW)	Directional characteristic round (ND) / directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V)
26th	511.25	ZDF	0.06	D (20–110 °)	H
36	591.25	The First (SWR)	0.065	D (100-120 °)	H
38	607.25	The first (hr)	0.05	D (20–60 °)	H
40	623.25	hr television	0.048	D (10–60 °)	H
57	759.25	SWR television Rhineland-Palatinate	0.26	D (20-200 °)	H

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Source: FMLIST database query: location = Bingen, country = D, region = hes