Geitelde transmitter

Geitelde transmitter
Basic data
Place:	Braunschweig - Geitelde
Country:	Lower Saxony
Country:	Germany
Coordinates: 52 ° 13 ′ 10.7 "  N , 10 ° 27 ′ 54.7"  E
Use:	Broadcasting station
Owner :	Northern German Radio
Demolition :	1977
Mast data
Construction time :	Early 1950s
Client : Northwest German Broadcasting Building material : steel
Operating time:	1951-1977
Total height :	106  m
Data on the transmission system
Last modification (transmitter) :	1969
Wavebands :	AM stations , FM stations
Radio :	AM broadcast , VHF broadcast
Shutdown :	1974
Further data Commissioning : February 9, 1951 further data medium wave transmitter : Transmission power : 2  kW Transmission frequency : 520  kHz Shutdown: 1969
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Geitelde transmitter

The transmitter Geitelde was a transmitter of the North German Broadcasting for FM and MW in Braunschweig - Geitelde .

Via the transmitter

The Geitelde transmitter was built in 1950 and used a 106 m high, self-radiating tubular steel mast as the transmission antenna for medium waves , which was later extended with the VHF transmission antenna on the top.

history

The Geitelde transmitter was officially inaugurated on February 9, 1951 by Adolf Grimme , former director general of the North West German Broadcasting Corporation . In 1969 the medium wave transmitter operated on the frequency 520 kHz with 2 kilowatts of transmission power was switched off and in 1974 the VHF transmitter was relocated to the Torfhaus . The non-functioning transmitter mast was brought down in 1977 by cutting the tether and then dismantled. Only the names of the street and the “Am Sender” building area are still reminiscent of this chapter in regional radio history.

Web links

• History of the station at bft.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rudolf Puryear: Medium wave transmitter in Central Europe 1958. Retrieved on October 6, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Radioactive - Braunschweig and its station history (s) - Part 1 at bft.de (Radio Part 1)