Dossenheim transmitter

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Dossenheim transmitter
Image of the object
Medium wave transmitter Dossenheim of the SWR in front of the Hoher Nistler , recorded 2001-06-23
Basic data
Place: Dossenheim
Country: Baden-Württemberg
Country: Germany
Altitude : 108  m above sea level NHN
Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 28.9 "  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 19.3"  E
Use: Broadcasting station
Demolition : 2004
Mast data
Building material : steel
Data on the transmission system
Waveband : AM station
Radio : MW broadcasting
Shutdown : April 2004
Position map
Transmitter Dossenheim (Baden-Württemberg)
Dossenheim transmitter
Dossenheim transmitter
Localization of Baden-Württemberg in Germany
Mast base with voting house, 2001-06-23

The transmitter Dossenheim was a medium wave transmitter of the Südwestrundfunk (formerly the Süddeutscher Rundfunk ) for radio. It was located on the outskirts of Dossenheim in the Rhine plain directly on the border with the city of Heidelberg , about two kilometers south of the Dossenheim city center. A 51 meter high, guyed tubular steel mast, insulated from the earth, was used as the antenna.

The Dossenheim transmitter was set up in 1951 in what was then an open field in order to close the gaps in the Mühlacker transmitter in the northwest of the SDR transmission area . When the Geneva Wave Plan came into force, the transmitter switched to the 711 kHz frequency and, together with the transmitters in Ulm-Jungingen and Obereisesheim, formed a single- frequency network. As a program of the sender was from 2002 until the end of SWR cont.ra radiated.

On April 30, 2004, the Dossenheim transmitter was switched off. Due to the development around the transmitter site in the meantime, the stricter EMC requirements could no longer be met, and the SWR found a conversion too expensive. The transmitter is completely dismantled today. A BMX track was later laid out at the location of the antenna.

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