Haardtkopf transmitter
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Haardtkopf transmitter
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| Basic data | ||||
| Place: | Haardtkopf mountain near Gornhausen | |||
| Country: | Rhineland-Palatinate | |||
| Country: | Germany | |||
| Altitude : | 658 m above sea level NHN | |||
| Coordinates: 49 ° 50 ′ 44 ″ N , 7 ° 3 ′ 15 ″ E | ||||
| Use: | Broadcasting station | |||
| Accessibility: | Transmission tower not open to the public | |||
| Owner : | Südwestrundfunk | |||
| Tower data | ||||
| Construction time : | 2018-2019 | |||
| Operating time: | since 2019 | |||
| Data on the transmission system | ||||
| Waveband : | FM transmitter | |||
| Radio : | VHF broadcasting | |||
| Send type: | DAB | |||
| Position map | ||||
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The Haardtkopf transmitter is a 136-meter-high freestanding transmission tower of the Südwestrundfunk in a steel framework construction for VHF radio and DAB .
history
Old transmission mast
The first transmission mast was erected in 1952 on the Haardtkopf of the same name near Gornhausen in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district . It was a guyed steel frame construction. A special feature of this transmission mast was that the top of the glass fiber cylinder with the UHF antennas was guyed to the top antenna platform and the mast had a triangular cross-section. In the summer of 2019, the separately guyed top mast with fiberglass cylinder was dismantled, thus reducing the total height of the structure to around 150 m. Due to the DVB-T switch-off, the top mast was no longer required.
New transmission tower
A new, approximately 136 m high steel lattice mast was erected between 2018 and 2019. This replaced the old guyed transmission mast. It is a free-standing steel lattice tower. A platform for mounting UHF antennas for DVB-T2 broadcast is no longer provided.
More transmission towers
In addition to the two masts of the Südwestrundfunk, there is another 74 m high steel lattice mast on the site. This is operated by the German radio tower and houses mobile radio, directional radio and BOS radio .
Frequencies and Programs
Analog radio (VHF)
In the case of directed radiation, the main radiation directions are given in degrees in the antenna diagram.
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Frequency [MHz] |
program | RDS PS | RDS PI | Regionalization |
ERP [kW] |
Antenna pattern round (ND) / directional (D) |
Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V) |
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| 97.7 | SWR1 Rhineland-Palatinate | SWR1_RP_ | D3A1 | - | 50 | D (210 ° -140 °) | H |
| 93.0 | SWR2 | __SWR2__ | D3A2 | Rhineland-Palatinate | 50 | D (210 ° -140 °) | H |
| 90.0 | SWR3 | __SWR3__ | D3A3 | Rhineland-Palatinate / Cologne | 50 | D (250 ° -140 °) | H |
| 107.1 | SWR4 Rhineland-Palatinate | SWR4_TR_ | DCA4 | Radio Trier | 50 | D (350 ° -290 °) | H |
| 100.1 | RPR1 |
RPR1._TR , _RPR1 .__ |
D5A8 (regional), D3A8 |
Eifel-Saar-Moselle | 50 | ND | H |
Digital radio (DAB +)
The digital radio ( DAB + ) is broadcast in vertical polarization and in single-frequency mode with other transmitters.
| block | Programs |
ERP (kW) |
Single frequency network (SFN) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11A Rhineland- Palatinate 1 (D__00217) |
DAB + multiplex of Digital Radio Südwest :
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0.5 planned 8th |
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Digital television (DVB-T, switched off)
Since November 12, 2008, the Haardtkopf transmitter has been broadcasting digital antenna television ( DVB-T ) with three public multiplex channels. The digital broadcasts ran in single-frequency operation (Single Frequency Network) with other transmitter sites. The shutdown took place on November 28, 2018 without switching to DVB-T2 .
| channel |
Frequency [MHz] |
Multiplex | Programs in multiplex |
ERP [kW] |
Antenna diagram round (ND) / directional (D) |
Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V) |
Modulation method |
FEC |
Guard interval |
Bit rate [Mbit / s] |
SFN |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E46 | 674 | ARD Digital (SWR) | 50 | ND | H | 16-QAM (8k mode) |
2/3 | 1/4 | 13.27 | Haardtkopf (Hunsrück) , Petrisberg (Trier), Scharteberg (Eifel-Daun), Geisberg (Saarburg-Ockfen) | |
| E48 | 690 | ARD regional (SWR Rhineland-Palatinate) |
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50 | ND | H | 16-QAM (8k mode) |
2/3 | 1/4 | 13.27 | Haardtkopf (Hunsrück) , Petrisberg, Scharteberg, Geisberg |
| E30 | 546 | ZDFmobil | 50 | ND | H | 16-QAM (8k mode) |
2/3 | 1/4 | 13.27 | Haardtkopf (Hunsrück) , Petrisberg, Scharteberg, Geisberg, Schoksberg (Saarbrücken), Göttelborner Höhe , Kettrichhof (Pirmasens), Donnersberg (Palatinate Forest), Kaiserslautern-Dansenberg |
Analog television (PAL)
Until the switch to DVB-T , the following programs were broadcast in analogue PAL (switched off November 12, 2008):
| channel |
Frequency (MHz) |
program |
ERP (kW) |
Transmission diagram round (ND) / directional (D) |
Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25th | 503.25 | The First (SWR) | 400 | D. | H |
| 35 | 583.25 | ZDF | 400 | ND | H |
| 55 | 743.25 | SWR television Rhineland-Palatinate | 550 | ND | H |
See also
Web links
- Haardtkopf transmitter mast. In: Structurae
- Photos from the station Haardtkopf ( Memento from December 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )