Great Waldstein transmitter
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Great Waldstein transmitter
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| Basic data | ||||
| Place: | Großer Waldstein near Zell in the Fichtelgebirge | |||
| Country: | Bavaria | |||
| Country: | Germany | |||
| Altitude : | 831 m above sea level NN | |||
| Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 36.5 ″ N , 11 ° 50 ′ 42.7 ″ E | ||||
| Use: | Broadcasting station | |||
| Owner : | German radio tower | |||
| Mast data | ||||
| Construction time : | 1963-1964 | |||
| Operating time: | since 1964 | |||
| Last conversion (mast) : | 2008 | |||
| Total height : | 100 m | |||
| Operating rooms: | 30 m , 35 m, 60 m | |||
| Data on the transmission system | ||||
| Last modification (transmitter) : | November 2008 | |||
| Waveband : | FM transmitter | |||
| Radio : | VHF broadcasting | |||
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The transmitter Großer Waldstein is a transmitter on the Großer Waldstein , which is operated by the Deutsche Funkturm , a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG.
The groundbreaking ceremony for the transmitter took place in October 1960. In May 1961, the system built by what was then the Deutsche Bundespost, whose main task was to broadcast the ZDF program in north-east Bavaria, went into operation. A 47-meter-high tubular steel mast served as the antenna carrier at the time. However, only the area around Hof could be supplied with this mast , so in June 1963 the erection of the 133 meter high, guyed steel framework mast that was still in existence today began. This mast, which has platforms for directional radio antennas at heights of 30, 35 and 60 meters, took over the broadcast of the ZDF television program in December 1963. This made it possible to reach large parts of the south of the former GDR . The range now extended from East Thuringia ( Jena , Gera , Greiz ) to the south of today's Saxony-Anhalt ( Halle / Saale area ) to Leipzig and large parts of western and central Saxony ( Plauen , Zwickau , Chemnitz ). This also applied to the VHF transmission system. Two months earlier, on October 22nd, 1963, the former RIAS started distributing its second program from the Großer Waldstein.
- From 1980 to 1994 the VHF program of RIAS 1 was broadcast on the frequency 89.3 MHz (with 20 kW ERP ), then Deutschlandradio Kultur .
- From 1964 to 1992, the RIAS 2 program was broadcast on the 91.2 MHz frequency (with 20 kW ERP ), followed by Deutschlandfunk . Bayerischer Rundfunk has been using the frequency from the Ochsenkopf transmitter location for the Bayern 1 program for the Upper Palatinate since 1995 .
With the start of broadcasting DVB-T from the ARD station in Ochsenkopf in November 2008, the analog broadcasting of television programs ended. The GRP cylinder with the TV antennas was dismantled promptly and the mast height has been 100 meters since then.
Analog radio (FM)
In the case of directed radiation, the main radiation directions are given in degrees in the antenna diagram.
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Frequency (in MHz) |
program | RDS PS | RDS PI | Regionalization |
ERP (in kW) |
Antenna pattern round (ND) / directional (D) |
Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V) |
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| 88.0 | Radio Euro Heart | EUROHERZ | DA1A | - | 5 | D (350 ° -290 °) | H |
| 89.3 | Deutschlandfunk culture | Dlf_Kult | D220 | - | 20th | D (160 ° –220 °, 340 ° –40 °) | H |
watch TV
Until the switch to DVB-T at the Ochsenkopf transmitter site, the Grosses Waldstein broadcast the following programs in analogue PAL :
| channel |
Frequency (in MHz) |
program |
ERP (in kW) |
Antenna pattern round (ND) / directional (D) |
Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V) |
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| 23 | 487.25 | ZDF | 500 | D (240–50 °) | H |
| 57 | 759.25 | BR television (Franconia) | 500 | D (240–50 °) | H |